Senior DevOps Engineer at PayFast

About the team

• Our infrastructure team is a team with a variety of skills and responsibilities. We have DevOps unit, Helpdesk, SysOps and general Infrastructure team to look after DPO Groups cloud and on-prem infrastructure. We are always looking at using new technologies to achieve our goals. We are a close team that helps each other grow and support each other. No-one is left behind or made to feel unwelcome, teamwork makes the dream work.

About you

• You’d love working with us If you thrive working in a fast-paced environment helping meet the demands of our rapid growth. You will be involved in expanding our existing payment platform and supporting software and building new and exciting features and applications relating to payments, online commerce, fraud detection and security.

You’ll fit in perfectly with our culture if you:

• Get energised by a fast-paced environment
• Cherish a good work-life balance
• Are adaptable and don’t mind a bit of chaos now and again
• Regard collaboration as an essential part of getting the job done
• Pride yourself as being a self-starter who doesn’t lack motivation
• Don’t need to be micromanaged
• Take feedback well and use it for self-improvement
• Welcome change and new ideas
• Value the importance of diversity

What you'll be doing

• Automation of day-to-day tasks
• Work with development teams on CI/CD and deployments
• Maintain and Manage AWS-based production systems
• Documenting new solutions and processes
• Develop new processes
• Improve on deployment processes
• Troubleshooting problems and proposing solutions
• R&D to improve current process and infrastructure

Technologies you’ll be exposed to

• Microservices
• PCI - Data Security Standard
• Docker and Kubernetes
• Composer
• Git
• Atlassian
• Ubuntu, CentOS, AmazonLinux and Windows Server
• Terraform
• Ansible
• AWS
• Serverless

What you'll need

• 5+ years relevant working experience
• 5 to 7 years Linux experience.
• Good understanding of coding & programming languages.
• Working knowledge of shell scripting and Python.
• Experience in CI/CD platforms such as Gitlab or similar.
• Experience in cloud technologies, AWS.
• Experience with automation tools such as Ansible, Puppet, Salt.
• Knack for investigating and problem solving when issues arise.