Senior Hybrid Azure Cloud Engineer (Hybrid work) Cape Town (TB)

About the position

Main job functions:

• Recruiting an expert who thrives in dynamic, hybrid cloud environments.


• In this role, you’ll be at the forefront of implementing and monitoring cloud- native business applications running on orchestrated container platforms in hybrid cloud environment.


• Security is critical and you’ll take charge of vulnerability scans, assessments and patching, ensuring that the platforms stay secure and resilient.


• Ability to make decisions to technically resolve business requirements.

 



Job functions:

• Work tightly with our customers, to understand, capture, and deliver against their requirements.


• Design and build distributed systems.


• Ability to work with the Operator Framework.


• Having an interest in diving into OpenShift and ODF (OpenShift Data Foundation).


• Work with your fellow engineers and the community to serve our customers.


• Support the requests of the Production and Development Teams to solve any problems related to the container platforms.


• Develop and oversee the backup, replication and disaster recovery strategies


• Maintain documentation for procedures, configurations and programs.


• Ensure systems adhere to NIST and Departmental standards


• Develop automation scripts using Ansible or equivalent.


• Maintain software repositories and apply software updates.


• Install, configure and maintain OpenShift environment


• Maintain/Monitor (i.e. Prometheus) the health of the systems through both automated and manual processes.


• Linux integration with other environments (authentication/directory services, network file systems, etc.)


• Cloud computing in general (provisioning, monitoring, orchestration, etc.)


• Understand OS and Application-level issues and advise on next steps


• Ability to communicate clearly and set the right expectations with all stakeholders.


• Applicable understanding of RedHat OpenShift and Kubernetes


• Understand infrastructure as code and the typical toolchains for implementing and maintaining these practices


• Act as a mentor and coach to junior and intermediate team members, fostering their growth and development.

Minimum Requirements:

Qualifications and experience required:

• Matric plus an IT Degree (Computer Science/Engineering) or 3 year National IT Diploma.


• 5 – 8 year’s work experience required in a similar role.


• Minimum of 3+ years hands-on experience supporting Cloud technologies and Linux systems.

 



Advantageous qualifications:

• Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA)


• Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration


• Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) 


• Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA)

 



Technical skills and experience required:

• Minimum of 3+ years hands-on experience supporting Cloud technologies and Linux systems including:


• Container technologies: Docker, Podman, Crio, Containerd.


• Container orchestration: Kubernetes, OpenShift.


• Linux RedHat.


• Understanding Linux troubleshooting and permission SELinux.


• Ansible & Prometheus.


• Storage technologies - block, object.


• Integration with other environments (authentication/directory services, network file systems, etc.).


• Troubleshooting experience.


• Solid Cloud (Azure) experience (hybrid Cloud).


• Programming fundamentals in any language.


• Customer support experience (customer needs are top priority).

Desired Skills:

• Senior Hybrid Azure Cloud Engineer
• Hybrid Azure Cloud Engineer
• Azure Cloud Engineer