Site Reliability Engineer - Cape Town at The Rank Group

Job Description

• As the Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) you will ensure our customers get the best quality of service and up-time we can give them. You will Identify where we can expect and how we can tolerate IT failures from our systems as well as those we depend upon. You will be responsible for the availability, performance, monitoring, incident response, and general service management, of the platforms and services that our company runs and owns.  
• You will be working closely with developers and infrastructure engineers to build and operate services and systems that can handle failures and ensure operational deliverables are met. Your role includes ensuring systems remain available, reliable, and efficient as they scale, and involve every aspect of the company's site. You will also engage in designing and automating tools and processes for scalability and performance, as well as identifying and predicting failures. This is an opportunity to work for a leading company in the online gambling industry.

Qualifications

Essential skills:

• Have some experience in IT Service Management (ITIL) and have an understanding of which parts apply in an agile DevOps environment 
• Experience with AWS services, Docker/Kubernetes, Jenkins, and Terraform with strong UNIX/Linux Background
• Experience in at least one configuration management solution (preferably Ansible)
• Python Programming skills, with Bash and Java as added advantage
• Monitoring tools (New Relic, Elasticsearch)
• You love to automate everything!!