Senior DevOps Engineer, Cape Town

Our client a well known South African Tech company is looking for a highly talented Senior DevOps Engineer to join their team in Cape Town.

As a Senior DevOps Engineer you will be responsible for managing, monitoring and provisioning of elastically scalable infrastructure, tools and techniques to support a fast-growing platform and distributed system.

Key responsibilities:

? Managing infrastructure which includes setup, monitoring and alerts, resource allocation, and deployment architecture using a wide range of AWS cloud technologies

? Implement and manage network/routing setup as well as integration into external systems

? Implementation and automation of runtime environments for software in support of engineering development processes

? Drive virtualization technologies with continuous deployment and elastic scalability in mind

? Manage system security and backup strategies across a wide variety of technologies and products Attributes/Experience required:

? Ability to code and script

? Experience with Continuous Integration (CI) / Continuous Delivery (CD)

? Experience of *nix based systems and tools in order to administrate, manage and monitor

? Experience with configuration management (chef, puppet, git)

? Experience with specific AWS cloud technologies (EC2, ECS, Route53, ELB, EBS, VPC, S3, CloudWatch)

? Experience with virtualization technologies (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes)

Nice to have:

? Experience with NoSQL, PostgreSQL, Dynamo, Elasticsearch

? Experience with common web stack applications (nginx, tornado)

? Experience with messaging platforms (Kafka, Kinesis)

? Experience with Google (GCM, Firebase)

Please get in touch to find out more about this exciting role :)

Minimum 4 years of experience