DevOps engineer

We are urgently looking for a DevOps engineer for Standard bank. The person will be expected to work on a hybrid bases going in 2x a week to the Rosebank office in JHB ( sometimes Simmonds street but not often)  BUT the client is moving towards full time back in office at some point so I just want to be fully transparent about this upfront.

Culture fit is extremely important for the hiring manager. He is looking for someone vibrant, with a great positive attitude as the team is very friendly and upbeat so they need someone who would fit in well.

The rate is between R 90 k – R 100k.  

Details of the spec below.

Since this is a hybrid role, the person is expected to live and work in JHB.

Please do let me know if you currently have any available resources.

Experience

• Hands on work experience in a hybrid (AWS) cloud environment preferably in the financial sector with PCI-DSS compliant systems.

• Implementing CI/CD pipeline automation across functional areas

• AWS workload automation (provisioning infrastructure and custom software configuration rollout)

• Implementing Observability for hybrid cloud-based environments

• Strong understanding of networking principles and protocols

• Troubleshooting low latency & Java based applications in a SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) context

• Familiarity/applying Platform Engineering principles and practices

Requirements

Technology & tooling

Mandatory

· AWS Services (EC2, RDS - Postgres & Oracle EE, EBS, EKS, ECS, Load Balancing, Secrets Manager, KMS, Service Catalog)

· AWS CDK

· Observability tooling - AWS CloudWatch, Splunk / AppDynamics, ELK

· CI/CD platforms (e.g. Harness, Azure DevOps, GitLab, etc.)

· Operating Systems - Linux and Windows server

Preferred

· Python scripting

· AWS CloudFormation

· Ansible

· Bash scripting

Optional

· Zabbix monitoring

· Keycloak

· ActiveMQ

· Weblogic 14c

· Nginx

Personal Attributes

• Willingness to engage
• Curiosity
• Sound communication skills
• Ability to self-direct

Certifications (Beneficial)

• AWS CloudOps engineer
• AWS Solutions Architect Associate