Senior DevOps Engineer (SA)
CV Library | Cape Town | Full-time | apply.workable.com |
We are innovators and this makes every day exciting. Our team get to work with a large set of technologies including best in breed 3rd party tools and applications, and we're investing more than ever in our tech platforms to keep CV-Library at the forefront of the digital recruitment space.
We now have an exciting, full-time opportunity for a Senior DevOps Engineer to support us on continuing our journey, bringing with you experience to implement change, the passion to pro-actively solve complex technical problems and the ability to champion best practice.
Ideally, you will have an expert understanding of the mechanics of high-traffic high-availability websites and business support and data services. You will need to be highly skilled with AWS, Linux, Docker, Git and MySQL, to list a few, and with a strong knowledge of building / managing delivery pipelines in a CI/CD environment.
Key Responsibilities
• Monitoring the performance and reliability of the company’s global online platforms
• Monitoring the availability management, latency, efficiency, and change management
• Monitoring the emergency response and capacity planning
• Troubleshooting issues via proactive and reactive monitoring and alerts using observability tooling and logging service requests
• Enhancing the tech stack/configurations of existing services to improve site performance and reduce issues
• Recording data and managing issues with a view to participation in reviews and blameless post-mortems
• Exploring and delivering on opportunities to implement automation and scripting of services, environments and toolsets
• Collaborating closely with the technology teams, stakeholders and wider teams to achieve our ambitious goals
• Explaining complex technical details to non-technical stakeholders
• Gaining exposure to our technical teams, working closely with software development, QA, Support and IT operations.
Requirements
Essential Requirements
• Experience with AWS supporting a production environment
• Indepth, hands-on experience with Linux
• Strong experience with Docker
• Nginx experience
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (preferably Jenkins)
• Experience of infrastructure automation tooling (e.g., Terraform/Puppet)
• Monitoring platforms (ELK, Grafana or similar)
Desirable Requirements
• MySQL experience
• Experience with API gateway products
• Experience with message broker/event streaming platforms RabbitMQ/Kafka
• Observability Platforms and Application Performance Management (preferably New Relic)
• Knowledge of Bash scripting
• Working within an Agile environment using both Kanban and Scrum (preferably using Jira)
Benefits
We are actively committed to promoting a fully diverse and inclusive workforce and we welcome applications for this role from all candidates who meet the key requirements.
Please do not hesitate to get in touch should you require any reasonable adjustments to assist with your application.
Click on the link below to find out more about CV-Library careers:
https://www.cv-library.co.uk/work-for-us
We now have an exciting, full-time opportunity for a Senior DevOps Engineer to support us on continuing our journey, bringing with you experience to implement change, the passion to pro-actively solve complex technical problems and the ability to champion best practice.
Ideally, you will have an expert understanding of the mechanics of high-traffic high-availability websites and business support and data services. You will need to be highly skilled with AWS, Linux, Docker, Git and MySQL, to list a few, and with a strong knowledge of building / managing delivery pipelines in a CI/CD environment.
Key Responsibilities
• Monitoring the performance and reliability of the company’s global online platforms
• Monitoring the availability management, latency, efficiency, and change management
• Monitoring the emergency response and capacity planning
• Troubleshooting issues via proactive and reactive monitoring and alerts using observability tooling and logging service requests
• Enhancing the tech stack/configurations of existing services to improve site performance and reduce issues
• Recording data and managing issues with a view to participation in reviews and blameless post-mortems
• Exploring and delivering on opportunities to implement automation and scripting of services, environments and toolsets
• Collaborating closely with the technology teams, stakeholders and wider teams to achieve our ambitious goals
• Explaining complex technical details to non-technical stakeholders
• Gaining exposure to our technical teams, working closely with software development, QA, Support and IT operations.
Requirements
Essential Requirements
• Experience with AWS supporting a production environment
• Indepth, hands-on experience with Linux
• Strong experience with Docker
• Nginx experience
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (preferably Jenkins)
• Experience of infrastructure automation tooling (e.g., Terraform/Puppet)
• Monitoring platforms (ELK, Grafana or similar)
Desirable Requirements
• MySQL experience
• Experience with API gateway products
• Experience with message broker/event streaming platforms RabbitMQ/Kafka
• Observability Platforms and Application Performance Management (preferably New Relic)
• Knowledge of Bash scripting
• Working within an Agile environment using both Kanban and Scrum (preferably using Jira)
Benefits
We are actively committed to promoting a fully diverse and inclusive workforce and we welcome applications for this role from all candidates who meet the key requirements.
Please do not hesitate to get in touch should you require any reasonable adjustments to assist with your application.
Click on the link below to find out more about CV-Library careers:
https://www.cv-library.co.uk/work-for-us
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