Platform / DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer

About the position

Role: Platform / DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer
Location: Remote but ideally based in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban
Company: Part of a large ICT group, this company offers globally available cloud services, solutions, and platforms for all. Their expertise empowers clients to adopt and migrate to any cloud, wherever they choose.
 
The purpose of the role is to create and manage platforms to guarantee the smooth operation of application systems. This involves aligning the planning, execution, and management of cloud infrastructure and software services with the overall business strategy. Collaborates with other teams to ensure the infrastructure remains dependable, scalable, and equipped to meet the evolving requirements of the applications.
Requirements: 

• 3 - 5yrs + DevOps / Site Reliability / Platform Engineer  or System Administration experience in  software environment.
• Experience working with IaaS and public cloud platforms
• Managing and provisioning of infrastructure through code (IaaC)
• Solid experience with and knowledge of Docker
• Experience with VMware Cloud Services, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform
• SOLID experience with both  or one of the following: HashiCorp  and / or Kubernetes
• Infrastructure-as-Code tools Terraform, Ansible – essential
• CircleCI, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, etc
• Experience using version control tools such as Git and GitHub
• Strong knowledge of security risks and mitigation thereof
• MySQL, Postgres database administration

Strong skills in the following: 

• Network routing and core principles
• Solid experience and good knowledge working with Linux containers and virtual machines
• Knowledge of cloud platform environments
• Experience within within software development environment including god understanding of software development principles
• Good knowledge of infrastructure-as-code and automation
• Solid experience in Unix/Linux administration
• Experience in Linux container orchestration

Desired Skills:

• Hashicorp consul
• Hashicorp nomad
• Hashicorp terraform
• Hashicorp vault
• Platform Engineer
• DevOps Engineer