Senior Devops Engineer New Cape Town

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

Job summary

A financial technology company based in Cape Town is seeking a Senior DevOps engineer to design and implement solutions that automate and secure web application workloads. Candidates should have at least 5 years of experience and strong skills in cloud infrastructure, container orchestration, and a passion for automation. The role involves mentoring and interacting with various technical teams, ensuring adherence to best practices in security and compliance.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years work-related experience.
• Experience automating development pipelines using various tools.
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and container orchestration.
• Mentoring capabilities and ability to collaborate with teams.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement DevOps solutions.
• Assist technical team in automation and infrastructure setup.
• Guide teams in serverless applications and security best practices.

Skills

Cloud hosted infrastructure

Container orchestration (Kubernetes, ECS)

Automation tools (Jenkins, Team City)

Network Security

Application Security

Linux and Windows Sys Admin

Serverless applications (AWS Lambda, Azure Functions)

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).

Requirements

• 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. All employees are expected to demonstrate professionalism, accountability, and a commitment to ethical conduct in line with financial regulations and industry standards.