Senior DevOps Engineer

Ozow; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 800,000; Full time

Job summary

A fintech company is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer in Cape Town to design and implement DevOps solutions for secure web applications. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, container orchestration, and automation. Responsibilities include mentoring teams and driving infrastructure optimization. A strong knowledge of tools like Jenkins and Kubernetes is essential.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant work experience.
• Experience automating development pipelines.
• Knowledge of cloud hosted infrastructure and container orchestration.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement DevOps solutions for application workloads.
• Mentor and collaborate with development and QA teams.
• Optimize cloud-hosted infrastructure and container orchestration.

Skills

Linux experience

Windows experience

Automation passion

Mentoring abilities

Cloud infrastructure knowledge

Container orchestration

Tools

Jenkins

Team City

AWS Code Deploy

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

Overview

Ozow is looking for a Senior DevOps engineer that has experience designing and implementing DevOps solutions to assist the technical team with securing, automating, monitoring and running their mostly web-based application workloads. We are looking for a person with both Linux and Windows experience, who has a passion for automation to help the technical team move faster by enabling them and guiding them where necessary (e.g. automation / security / infrastructure setup / serverless applications).

You should have mentoring abilities, with the ability to liaise and interact with development teams, QA teams as well as other DevOps engineers. The ability to deliver value while adhering to best practises and stay abreast of industry developments are key.

We primarily run web application workloads in cloud hosted infrastructure with a huge drive to go more serverless (e.g. AWS Lambda / Azure Functions) and run workloads using container orchestration (Kubernetes / AWS ECS).

Responsibilities

• Design and implement DevOps solutions to support secure, automated, monitored, and reliable web-based application workloads.
• Mentor and liaise with development, QA, and other DevOps engineers to deliver value while following best practices and industry developments.
• Drive automation, security, infrastructure setup, and serverless application adoption.
• Operate and optimize cloud-hosted infrastructure and container orchestration (Kubernetes / AWS ECS).

Qualifications

• At least 5 years work-related experience.
• Experience automating development pipelines using tools such as Jenkins / Team City / AppVeyor / Octopus Deploy / AWS Code Deploy.
• Experience with cloud hosted infrastructure.
• Experience with container orchestration (Kubernetes / ECS).

Advantageous

• CloudFormation / Terraform.
• Security - Network Security (Firewalls, Anti-Virus) and Application security (e.g. Defending against the OWASP Top 10).
• Serverless applications (e.g. AWS Lambda / AWS API Gateway / Azure Functions).
• Linux and Windows Sys Admin and hosting (e.g. nginx / IIS).

Interview Process

During the interview process you will meet with the People team, the hiring manager, and relevant CSuite. Be prepared to complete a technical assessment that will showcase your skills.

Compliance

As a fintech company, we prioritize data security, confidentiality, regulatory and compliance. Due to the sensitive nature of our work, we require individuals with a high level of integrity and trustworthiness to ensure adherence to financial regulations and industry standards. Given the sensitive nature of our work, all employees are expected to demonstrate professionalism, accountability, and a commitment to ethical conduct in line with financial regulations and industry standards.