Senior DevOps (Site Reliability Engineer)

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Requirements:

• Grade 12 or equivalent (Essential). A related tertiary qualification is desirable.
• Minimum of 7+ years in DevOps, IT, or SysAdmin roles, with solid experience in Linux administration (Essential).
• Experience building PCI/ISO27001-compliant systems (Desirable).
• Familiarity with Agile and TDD methodologies.
• Expertise in AWS (required), with additional knowledge of Azure and GCP (desired).
• Experience with configuration management tools like Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Salt, and VPN.
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as Bash, PHP, Ruby, and Python.
• Knowledge of configuring and monitoring core apps like web servers, databases, and messaging queues.
• Experience with tools like JIRA, Jenkins, ELK stack, and Capistrano for CI, logging, and deployments.
• Solid understanding of networking concepts including DNS, routing, firewall, and load balancing.
• Knowledge of primary and read replica database design.

Responsibilities:

• Collaboratively manage all cloud infrastructure environments as part of the DevOps team.
• Monitor infrastructure to ensure optimal performance and availability at all times.
• Implement intrusion prevention and detection tools to enhance security.
• Ensure proper operating system and software installation/configuration.
• Enhance and refine monitoring and alerting systems to catch issues early.
• Identify opportunities for system performance optimization.
• Ensure redundancy, failover, and disaster recovery processes are in place.
• Create and maintain high-level design documentation and system diagrams.
• Contribute in an agile environment and actively participate in relevant meetings.
• Identify issues and propose solutions for efficiency.
• Share knowledge and best practices with fellow DevOps engineers.
• Take ownership of the strategic direction and maintenance of internal infrastructure.
• Manage professional and self-development to stay updated on emerging technologies.