Senior DevOps Engineer: Enterprise

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Requirements:

• Grade 12 or equivalent (Essential).
• Related tertiary qualification (Desirable).
• 5+ years experience in the DevOps and/or SysAdmin space.
• Experience managing IaaS - AWS (Primary), Azure (Secondary).
• Solid experience in Linux administration (Essential).
• Experience in scripting in at least one language.
• Experience working with VMs and Containers.
• Experience with building PCI / ISO27001 systems (Desirable).
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) – Terraform (Primary), CloudFormation (Secondary).
• Knowledge of backups, retention, and DR testing.
• Knowledge of network management: DNS, routing, firewalls, load balancing, proxies and VPNs.
• Knowledge of web servers, databases, messaging queues.
• Knowledge of managing CI/CD, monitoring and alerting applications.
• Knowledge of database management.
• Knowledge of agile and TDD methodology.
• Experience in Banking and/or FinTech sector is favourable.

Responsibilities:

• Manage all cloud based infrastructure classified as enterprise infrastructure.
• Manage business intelligence infrastructure.
• Manage infrastructure of acquired systems.
• Ensure all infrastructure is built and maintained using enterprise standards.
• Ensure all infrastructure is managed with Infrastructure as Code or similar.
• Proactively enhance and refine monitoring and alerting systems.
• Ensure that all systems are highly available.
• Ensure redundancy, failover and recovery of systems.
• Ensure regular backups and build automated backup recovery testing.
• Perform Disaster Recovery testing and identify potential improvements.
• Ensure that Recovery Time Objectives are met.
• Ensure systems are regularly patched and upgraded, with critical and security patches applied as soon as they are available.
• Ensure cost optimisation of infrastructure and identify ways to optimise performance.
• Ensure high-level design documentation and system diagrams are produced.
• Collaborate and communicate effectively.
• Attend and actively contribute in all relevant meetings in-line with agile methodology.
• Knowledge and skill share with DevOps engineers in the team.
• To manage own professional and self-development.