DevOps Engineer

Accredited Resource Consulting Services (Pty) Ltd; Centurion; On-site; ZAR 60 000 - 100 000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is on the lookout for a highly skilled Senior DevOps Engineer to spearhead the design and optimization of scalable infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines. This exciting role offers the opportunity to work with cutting-edge cloud technologies and automation tools, ensuring efficient deployment and monitoring of applications. With a focus on problem-solving and ownership, you will thrive in a dynamic environment, driving the development of resilient systems. If you are passionate about DevOps practices and eager to make a significant impact, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience as a Site Reliability Engineer or similar role.
• Proven experience in cloud technologies and DevOps practices.

Responsibilities

• Implement and maintain infrastructure for DevOps practices.
• Enable automated deployment, monitoring, and testing.

Skills

AWS

DevOps Practices

Automation

Monitoring and Alerting

Problem-solving

Linux Administration

Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD Pipelines

Systematic Approach

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

8+ years experience in relevant roles

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Gitlab

Jenkins

MongoDB

PostgreSQL

Prometheus

Elastic Stack

Job description

We are seeking a highly skilled and driven Senior DevOps Engineer to lead the design, implementation, and optimization of scalable infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines.

This role requires deep expertise in cloud technologies, automation, monitoring, and deployment practices. The ideal candidate is a problem-solver with a strong sense of ownership, who thrives in complex environments and is passionate about delivering resilient, efficient, and automated systems at scale.

This is a 3 year contract with the option to renew.
Duties & Responsibilities:
Implement and maintain the infrastructure required for implementing DevOps practices.
Enable automated deployment of applications and configurations.
Enable automated monitoring and alerting.
Enable automated end-to-end testing.
Enable continuous release processes, practices, and pipelines.
Enable change management and audit requirements for release pipelines.
Interest in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
Systematic problem-solving approach.
Open communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive.
Ability to debug and optimize code and automate routine tasks.
Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms such as easy-to-use tooling and automation
Practice sustainable incident response and drive root cause analysis
Operating systems: Linux (*nix) administration.
AWS exposure, EC2, EKS, Lambda, SQS, S3, Api Gateway, IAM, SSM, Route53, Loadbalancers, AWS Databases.
Monitoring and alerting tools: Alerta, Selenium, Prometheus, InfluxDB, Elastic Stack.
Application Servers: Node.js, nginx, springboot, Tomcat.
Databases and tools: MongoDB, Mongo Ops Manager, DB2, Flyway, postgresql.
Kubernetes: EKS Cluster management, Service Mesh, Application deployment, monitoring and troubleshooting.
Docker: Nginx, Consul, docker-compose, cli.
Automation: Cloudformation, Terraform, Boto3, Ansible.
Build: Gitlab, Nexus, Jenkins.
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Education & Experience:
8+ years of experience as a Site Reliability Engineer or similar role as an enabler of DevOps practices.
8+ years of experience as a Software Engineer or Java or Developer Middleware administrator.

Desired Skills:

• DevOps Engineer
• Site Reliability Engineer
• Senior Software Engineer
• Senior DevOps Engineer