TechOps Engineer at Yoco

Key Responsibilities: 

• Keep our systems running!
• Assist with the design and deployment of systems infrastructure for installing secure, highly available software at scale.
• Work within a team of world-class TechOps Engineers, sharing knowledge and collaborating on various projects.
• Automate common functionality to empower various departments to manage their infrastructure needs independently.
• Implement, monitor and scale systems that support large amounts of data and requests with a very high percentage of availability.
• Deploy, update, network, compute, storage, and virtualisation infrastructure for our services and 3rd party tools.
• Work cross-functionally to understand the requirements for architecting infrastructure according to scale and volume of data.
• Maintain and improve our CI/CD infrastructure.
• Establish best practices for security, monitoring, migration and expansion of business systems infrastructure.
• Assist with troubleshooting and debugging of performance problems and architecture bottlenecks.

Key requirements to perform responsibilities:

• 3+ years of expert experience in designing, building and maintaining AWS cloud-based infrastructure.
• Have hands-on experience with EC2, S3, EFS, RDS, IAM, Security groups, ELB, auto-scaling, deployment and migration of environments.
• Self-directed in debugging issues, identifying faults and enhancing logging of software.
• Are experienced in IT infrastructure and systems security, cloud or network systems management, and business continuity.
• Knowledge of Terraform, Ansible and Kubernetes preferred.
• Experienced in writing code in multiple scripting languages such as Python, Ruby, etc.
• Work collaboratively across the entire organisation on various projects.
• Are transparent, articulate and driven to succeed.