DevOps Lead
Boardroom Appointments · Cape Town, WC, South Africa ·
- Seniority
- Lead
- Category
- Devops
Responsibilities
- Support and manage our hosting environment
- Support our development team
- Find opportunities to streamline how we work
- Drive opportunities for efficiencies
- Knowledge sharing support and upskilling of the rest of the team
- Championing relevant documentation
Requirements
- Experience in deploying highly available automated Linux-based systems
- Solid understanding of networking protocols and how the internet works
- Experience with containerisation, Docker etc
- Experience in automating with Ansible or similar tools
- A good understanding of databases, database design and optimization
- Experience with coding, ideally backend services in Python, PHP reasonable understanding of web technologies
- Knowledge of automated testing
- Building CI/CD pipelines
- Proven ability and interest in picking up new technologies quickly, leading evaluations and providing suggestions of key technologies to base future development around
- Great problem solving ability, especially under pressure
- A passion to lead and mentor more junior DevOps engineers
- An ability to explain and articulate technical detail clearly to technical management and developers
- Understanding of the importance of writing documentation and training other staff on operating platforms
- Architecting, deploying, maintaining and scaling platforms