Senior Devops Engineer

Eqplus; Pretoria; On-site; ZAR 300 000 - 400 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech company in South Africa is seeking an experienced DevOps engineer with a minimum of 8 years' working experience. The ideal candidate will have a degree in Computer Science or equivalent and extensive experience in building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines. Proficiency in RedHat OpenShift and various tools such as GitLab and Ansible, along with strong problem-solving and communication skills, is essential. Join our team to help drive innovation and efficiency in our projects.

Qualifications

• Minimum of eight years' working experience as a DevOps engineer.
• Solid understanding of managing databases and configuring CI/CD pipelines.
• Problem-solving mindset with a spirit of teamwork.

Skills

Continuous Integration and Continuous Development (CI CD)

RedHat OpenShift

GitLab

GitHub

Agile principles

Troubleshooting

Effective communication

Education

Degree in Computer Science or equivalent NQF7 qualification

Tools

Ansible

Bash scripting

Informatica IICS

TeraData

Oracle

Postgres

AppDynamics

New Relic

ArgoCD

Kibana

Grafana

Sonarqube

Kafka

3scales

Job description

Minimum qualification required : A degree in Computer Science, or an equivalent NQF7 qualification; and eight years' working experience as a DevOps engineer.

The following will be an added advantage : Industry, organisational and business awareness; and Team player with can do attitude Competencies : Working experience in building and maintain Continuous Integration and Continuous Development (CI CD) pipelines; Experience in design, deployment, configuration, and maintaining RedHat Openshift clusters and CP4i.

Linux experience a must A working knowledge of various tools and open-source technologies A good knowledge of critical concepts in DevOps and Agile principles Extensive experience in GitLab, GitHub, OpenShift, ArgoCD, Kibana, Grafana, SAST, DAST, Sonarqube, 3scales, Kafka, JFrog Experience implementing Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tools (such as AppDynamics, New Relic, or similar) to monitor application performance metrics, including response times, throughput, and resource utilization; Experience supporting databases and pipeline platforms, Informatica IICS TeraData, Oracle, Postgres, Bash scripting and Ansible automation A solid understanding of configuring and managing databases A problem-solving mindset A spirit of teamwork and cooperation Excellent troubleshooting skills Good communication skills are necessary for dealing with management, stakeholders, and clients.