DevOps engineer
Summary
DevOps engineer builds and maintains AWS-based CI/CD pipelines, observability, and hybrid cloud infrastructure for a South African bank’s PCI-DSS systems.
We are urgently looking for
a DevOps engineer for Standard bank. The person will be expected to work on a
hybrid bases going in 2x a week to the Rosebank office in JHB ( sometimes
Simmonds street but not often) BUT the client is moving towards full time
back in office at some point so I just want to be fully transparent about this
upfront.
Culture fit is extremely
important for the hiring manager. He is looking for someone vibrant, with a
great positive attitude as the team is very friendly and upbeat so they need
someone who would fit in well.
The rate is between R 90 k –
R 100k.
Details of the spec below.
Since this is a hybrid role,
the person is expected to live and work in JHB.
Please do let me know if you
currently have any available resources.
Experience
- Hands
on work experience in a hybrid (AWS) cloud environment preferably in the
financial sector with PCI-DSS compliant systems.
- Implementing
CI/CD pipeline automation across functional areas
- AWS
workload automation (provisioning infrastructure and custom software
configuration rollout)
- Implementing
Observability for hybrid cloud-based environments
- Strong
understanding of networking principles and protocols
- Troubleshooting
low latency & Java based applications in a SRE (Site Reliability
Engineering) context
- Familiarity/applying
Platform Engineering principles and practices
Requirements
Technology & tooling
Mandatory
· AWS Services
(EC2, RDS - Postgres & Oracle EE, EBS, EKS, ECS, Load Balancing, Secrets
Manager, KMS, Service Catalog)
· AWS CDK
· Observability
tooling - AWS CloudWatch, Splunk / AppDynamics, ELK
· CI/CD platforms
(e.g. Harness, Azure DevOps, GitLab, etc.)
· Operating Systems
- Linux and Windows server
Preferred
· Python scripting
· AWS CloudFormation
· Ansible
· Bash scripting
Optional
· Zabbix monitoring
· Keycloak
· ActiveMQ
· Weblogic 14c
· Nginx
Personal Attributes
- Willingness
to engage
- Curiosity
- Sound
communication skills
- Ability
to self-direct
Certifications
(Beneficial)
- AWS
CloudOps engineer
- AWS
Solutions Architect Associate