Senior AWS DevOps Engineer

• 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/OpenSearch and sanity checks
  
• Actively work on building and migrating PayFast 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 skills
  

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 IaC experience in one of: SaltStack, Chef, Ansible, Puppet, Teraform
  
• Web Servers (Apache, Nginx, fpm, node)
  
• Load Balancers Experience
  
• Knowledge of Database technologies: AWS RDS (especially Maria and MySQL)
  
• NoSql 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