Senior aws devops engineer
Sabenza IT & Recruitment · Cape Town, South Africa ·
- Seniority
- Senior
- Category
- Devops
Summary of role- Dev Ops Engineer
A Dev Ops Engineer is responsible for bridging the gap between software development and IT operations by automating, streamlining, and improving the software delivery lifecycle. They design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines, manage cloud infrastructure, monitor system performance, and ensure application reliability, scalability, and security. Dev Ops Engineers collaborate closely with development, testing, and operations teams to enable faster deployments, reduce downtime, and enhance overall system efficiency through automation and infrastructure-as-code practices.
Responsibilities Develop and maintain procedures to comply with security policies and IT best practices Develop and maintain documentation of systems configurations and procedures Monitor systems via applications, log files, Elk/Open Search and sanity checks Actively work on building and migrating Pay Fast to Kubernetes. Maintain our configuration and build management systems Database maintenance and implementations Serve as an escalation point to resolve problems in Servers and users' environment Work closely with technical team members (cultural fit) Must be able to troubleshoot complex issues quickly and effectively Research and evaluation of new technologies for our environment CI, Testing and release management Firewall Administration Security and incident response Patch management Agile working methods, agile planning, time management and planning/prioritisation skillsRequirements: Requirements Matric Certification and a Bachelors (RHCE / ISO 27001/PCI) is a plus but not required High level of proficiency in Linux based OS Cloud Infrastructure (AWS) Associated Certified is a must have Containers (Docker + Kubernetes) Pipelines (Jenkins/Gitlab Ci) Proficiency in a scripting language and application language: Bash, Python, PHP, Perl, Java, Go Proven Ia C experience in one of: Salt Stack, Chef, Ansible, Puppet, Teraform Web Servers (Apache, Nginx, fpm, node) Load Balancers Experience Knowledge of Database technologies: AWS RDS (especially Maria and My SQL) No Sql DBs,pub/sub and Key/Value stores: Redis/mongo Replication technologies Experience in Networking: OSI, (AWS TGW and basic on prem OSI model) Queues – Rabbit, MQ #J-18808-Ljbffr