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Junior DevOps Engineer

Summary

Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, containerized Java apps, and monitoring for a remote team supporting API-driven BI tools and real-time data collaboration.

Job Title: DevOps Engineer

Reference: DBN000818-AD-1

Our client, a German Consulting company with a large South African contingency, is looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer to join their fully remote-based South African team.

They develop software solutions that support best-in-class visualization, data-driven communication, and platform independence, building upon an API-driven integration into any open BI-software. With KPI-CHAT, they take real-time data collaboration to the next level.

Are you a proactive, determined DevOps professional with strong communication skills, able to work remotely with a stable internet connection and a quiet office space? Do you enjoy developing solutions for complex issues and can you communicate and implement them in a rational way? If so, you might be the right person for us.

Duties & Responsibilities

  • Interact with team members to improve our software engineers’ tools, technology stack, and application performance and stability.
  • Establish, design, perform, and execute comprehensive technical projects.
  • Assist the development team to support the seamless deployment of their code.
  • Troubleshoot production issues to address technical commitments and boost sustainability.

Skills and Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in software engineering or equivalent.
  • Proficiency in deploying and maintaining Java web applications.
  • Ability to construct and execute network, server, and application status monitoring.
  • Knowledge of software automation production systems, including code deployment.
  • Working knowledge of software development methodologies.
  • Strong analytical and conceptual thinking skills.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication in English.
  • Open-minded towards foreign cultures and working in an international environment.

Working Knowledge in the Following

  • Infrastructure and architecture understanding
  • Jenkins
  • CI/CD
  • MSSQL & MySQL
  • Client Server Config Setup (Tomcat, JAVA)
  • Reverse Proxy (IIS/nginx)
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Jira
  • Build Tools (ANT)

Package & Remuneration

Monthly compensation will be discussed during the interview process.

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