Senior Cloud Engineer

Jellyfish; Johannesburg; Hybrid; ZAR 500 000 - 800 000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading company as a Cloud Engineer, where you'll work with cutting-edge technologies to build and optimize cloud-native applications. You'll collaborate with a passionate team, focusing on automation and security while enjoying flexible working arrangements. This role emphasizes skills and expertise over traditional qualifications, inviting innovative thinkers to apply.

Benefits

Discretionary Annual Bonus

Custom Work Environment

Flexible Working Hours

Paid Self-Development Days

LinkedIn Learning Access

Paid Leave for Caregivers

Support for Returning Caregivers

Qualifications

• Understanding of microservice and serverless architectures.
• Proficient in Dockerising applications.
• Knowledge of managing applications deployed to Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

• Review and oversee platform enhancements.
• Govern technologies to ensure security standards are met.
• Manage large cloud projects for clients across multiple countries.

Skills

Microservice Architecture

Performance Enhancement Technologies

Networking Fundamentals

Docker

Kubernetes

Infrastructure as Code

Security Best Practices

Tools

Terraform

AWS RDS

MongoDB

Job description

Reporting to our Vice President of Engineering, you will join our growing Cloud Engineering team. This is an exciting opportunity to work at the forefront of web technologies, building, maintaining and scaling applications for our global clients.

You will work with modern infrastructure practices including serverless computing, containerisation, and orchestration frameworks, across platforms developed in PHP, NodeJS and Python. Many of these platforms are applying Generative AI capabilities, and you'll architect and optimise cloud infrastructure to support the latest solutions.

This is a role for a passionate technologist who is excited about shaping the future of cloud-native applications enhanced by AI.

Your primary responsibilities will include :

• Review and oversee platform enhancements.
• Complete implementations, working well both independently and as part of a team.
• Govern our technologies to ensure security standards are met.
• Work in a DevOps capacity with a desire to automate everything.
• Scope and estimate technical web builds.
• Practice Site Reliability Engineering concepts and design.
• Manage large cloud projects for our clients across multiple countries.
• Work with our developers to help share knowledge and improve the quality of practices.
• Advise on new technologies to make sure Jellyfish's products are always evolving.

Qualifications

• An understanding of microservice and serveless architectures.
• Understand performance enhancement technologies (CDN, Caching).
• Understand networking fundamentals.
• Proficient in Dockerising applications.
• Knowledge of managing applications deployed to Kubernetes (EKS).
• Knowledge of Terraform or other IaC technologies.
• Helm / ArgoCD knowledge.
• AWS RDS (MySQL / Postgres) and MongoDB
• A focus on security and following best practices.
• You embrace challenges as opportunities, and when faced with a problem you collaborate with the appropriate people to evaluate different options find practical solutions.

Note : We emphasise skills, expertise and behavioural attributes over years of experience and traditional degrees. If you want to join our collaborative team, we invite you to apply today with your resume in English.

Additional Information

Join Jellyfish and experience a workplace where we prioritise your growth, celebrate your contributions, and empower you to tailor your work environment to suit your needs.

Reward : You'll be eligible to join our discretionary annual bonus scheme.

Custom Work Environment : Choose whether to work from home or one of our 3 offices, and shape your day between 8am. and 6 : 30pm with flexible working hours.

Growth, Your Way : Accumulate one paid day each month (2 hours per week) for self-development and access to LinkedIn Learning with unlimited online courses

Family Support : Enjoy 14 weeks of paid leave for primary caregivers and 4 weeks of paid leave for secondary caregivers. We also provide £1000 (or equivalent) towards courses for returning primary caregivers to support your transition back into work.

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