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Clickatell is a cutting edge technology company and global leader in mobile messaging that enables effortless, personalized, and contextual digital interactions between businesses and their customers. Clickatell was the first company to enable a web to mobile app from any website in the world and, harnessing over a decade of insight into the complexities of...
Description
Add your voice to the chat revolution:
At Clickatell, we’re upending the way companies connect, engage, and transact with their customers in chat. Chat is something you do every day with your friends, but it’s also a simple technology that we’ve helped our customers to use to accomplish pretty amazing things. Clickatell helps businesses power customer support, customer engagement, and payments all through chat apps like WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger.
Our customers are some of the most admired and recognizable companies in the world and our communications technology is used to reach more than 15,000 global brands every year. Our jobs offer you a chance to grow your career and work with global teams on technology that is quite simply changing the world.
We’ve grown by combining curious minds and quick smiles with a collaborative company culture where we never quit or settle, and always strive to create solutions that will change the world. It’s a big proposition, but it’s a mission our team takes on every day in an environment that provides you with the freedom to create and innovate, while having fun at the same time. We’re a fanatically friendly group that listens and puts each other first to accomplish great things together for our customers, our communities, and Clickatell.
Purpose:
The Senior Infrastructure Engineer is accountable for assisting the Team Lead: Infrastructure in planning, organizing, controlling, and management of all of platforms and implementation of the related infrastructure strategy. We are looking for an experienced person to help us manage and develop our cloud infrastructure. This role will work closely with our technology teams to provide the support necessary to allow for rapid code deployment and high levels of system uptime.
The Role of our Champion:
Be a thought leader with regards to Clickatell’s overall cloud adoption strategy.
Divisional policy and process formulation, strategic planning, resource coordination and operational execution of projects and assisting in procurement process.
Installation/configuration, operation, maintenance and monitoring of the Clickatell messaging (CMneXt) engine hardware, software and related infrastructure with a focus on high availability, stability and security.
Technical research and development to enable continuing innovation within the infrastructure
Auditing and analysis of logs and other system data for troubleshooting and preliminary root cause determination, data backup management, change control management for code deployment and configuration modifications
Ensuring network, hardware, operating systems, software applications and any related procedures adhere to organizational values, enabling staff, customers and partners
Technical liaison with enterprise customers and vendors as required
Service, maintain, commission and support global platforms, with a view towards high availability
Lead the Systems Administration Community of Practices (COP) where a forum is created to share knowledge and promote learning.
ITIL - incident and problem management
Conduct root cause investigations on all customer-affecting incidents
Ensure that all known errors and single points of failures are highlighted, documented and feeds back into change management process.
Knowledge-sharing and Documentation
Ensuring all documentation and diagrams for all environments are accurate and up to date
Operations and Support
Perform or confirm system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources, systems and key processes, reviewing system and application logs, and verifying completion of scheduled jobs
Repair and recover from hardware or software failures, including coordinating and communicating with impacted constituencies
Capacity planning and reporting for all platforms
Provides escalated technical support that requires an on-site presence
Requirements
The Capabilities of our Champion:
Significant experience in virtualisation and cloud environments such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), VMware or similar
Significant experience in Linux operating system environments
Experience with container orchestration services, especially Kubernetes
Experience administering and deploying with CI/CD tools such as GitLab, Ansible, or Terraform
Familiarity with BASH, Python, Perl and/or PHP scripting
Basic understanding of the software development lifecycle
Proven experience of the below is advantageous:
Experience in large, ISP-type environments and infrastructure (Traditional/Bare Metal & Cloud)
Logging solutions, especially Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)
Monitoring and Alerting solutions, such as Icinga/Nagios, Grafana or Graphite
Application layer protocols, including but not limited to working knowledge of DHCP, DNS, SMTP, FTP and HTTP
Network design and troubleshooting, firewalls, routers and switches
Own transport and driver’s license beneficial in the rare circumstance where emergency onsite support is required at the data centre
Our Champion's Journey so far:
Must understand and demonstrate knowledge of:
Minimum of 5 years in a system administrative position
Minimum of 4 years working experience with Linux OSes, troubleshooting hardware and/or software
Minimum of 3 years programming or scripting experience
Minimum of 2 years automation experience
AWS Solutions Architect and/or SysOps Administrator (Associate or better) certification advantageous
Red Hat Enterprise Linux certified (RHCE or better) or other appropriate Linux/Unix certification advantageous
Benefits
Why you will love being here:
Why you will love being here:
Healthcare, Pension Fund and Group Life benefit.
Quarterly performance incentives
Communication allowances
Half-day off on your birthday
5 personal days leave a year, over and above your annual leave.
Remote Working (our offices are currently open for essential use only due to COVID-19)
Ongoing Learning with access to books, team training workshops and professional development.
Virtual activities, events and coffee dates.
Home office set-up with laptop, screen, internet access and UPS.
Anniversary awards
Clickatell is an equal opportunity employer and all suitable applicants will be considered for employment. Preference will however be given to candidates who will enhance the diversity of the team and support the achievement of employment equity.
To all Recruitment Agencies, we thank you for your willingness to assist us with this vacancy. As a company we have our own Technical Talent Specialists that has deep knowledge of what our company values in every employee and therefore are able to headhunt themselves. Furthermore we do not accept unsolicited CV’s, terms & conditions associated with the use of such CVs will be considered null and void.
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