Mukuru is on the lookout for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our IT Engineering team. This role is open to Johannesburg applicants, with remote work possible.
This position forms part of the team that owns the strategic direction of Infrastructure development and DevOps processes.
The role will oversee, build, iterate, secure & monitor our internal infrastructure and applications as well as our external integrations, to ensure efficient operations and systems recovery in the event of disaster.
The Senior DevOps Engineer reports directly to the Head of Development & Technology Solutions.
The successful candidate will be responsible for helping reach and maintain standards required to run an enterprise cloud deployment, for example ensuring infrastructure maintenance and processes adhere to ISO 27001.
They are also responsible for researching new technologies and identifying ways to improve and optimize the current infrastructure.
Internal Liaison takes place within the IT team. External liaison takes place with 3rd parties.
Duties and Responsibilities (include but is not limited to) :
Collaboratively manage all cloud infrastructure environments as part of the DevOps team
Monitor the environments to ensure they are working effectively at all times
Implement intrusion prevention & detection tools
Ensure operating system and software installation and configuration are correct
Proactively enhance & refine monitoring & alerting systems
Identify ways to enhance the performance
Ensure redundancy, failover and recovery of systems
Collaborate and communicate effectively
Ensure high-level design documentation & system diagrams are produced
Attend & actively contribute in all relevant meetings in line with agile methodology
Identify ways to resolve issues and to make the business more efficient and productive
Knowledge and skill share and with DevOps engineers in the team
Take strategic ownership of our internal Infrastructure
To manage own professional and self-development
Key Requirements :
Grade 12 or equivalent (Essential)
Related tertiary qualification (Desirable)
7+ years' experience in the DevOps / IT / SysAdmin space
Solid experience in Linux administration (Essential),
Experience with building PCI / ISO27001 systems (Desirable)
Knowledge of agile and TDD methodology
Knowledge of Cloud Technologies (AWS required, Azure & GCP desired)
Knowledge of configuration management puppet, chef, ansible, salt, VPN
Knowledge of Scripting bash,php, ruby, python
Knowledge of config and monitoring of core apps : web servers, databases, messaging queues (e.g., apache, nginx, mysql, beanstalkd, rabbitmq)
Knowledge of maintaining supporting applications issue tracking (JIRA), CI (jenkins), logging (ELK), deployments (Capistrano)
Knowledge of network management : DNS, routing, firewall, load balancing and proxy
Knowledge of database hosting : primary and read replica design
Additional Skills :
Verbal and written communication skills
Multitasking skills
Analytical and problem solving skills
Excellent debugging and troubleshooting skills
Attention to detail
Teamworking and collaboration
Should you be appointed in a remote / work from home role at Mukuru, it is your responsibility to ensure that you have uninterrupted internet connectivity and a work-like' environment at your home location, in order to deliver your best in terms of performance, productivity and service to our customers.
If you do not receive any response after two weeks, please consider your application unsuccessful.
NB : ALL STAFF APPOINTMENTS WILL BE MADE WITH DUE CONSIDERATION OF THE COMPANY'S EE TARGETS
