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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


Understanding of the AWS Well-Architected Framework 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


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