Technical Specialist: Cloud and Open Source

2 weeks ago

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa Derivco Full time

Job Profile Summary:

At Derivco, we work alongside our clients who are considered giants in the industry, to create and develop the platform that hosts some of the best online casino games in the industry.


We are also Platinum partners with vendors such as Microsoft and we are proud to say we employ over 2,500 of the brightest minds across our offices in the USA, South Africa, UK, Spain, Malta, Sweden and Australia.

To work for Derivco means you will work with cutting-edge technology., in our designer offices. Our people are brilliant., our ideas fresh and our technology is trailblazing.


You will be inspired, challenged, and stimulated every day and you will receive an extraordinary number of high-fives - rewarded for work well done.

A place where you will feel as if you have found your intellectual and creative home.

**_
Sounds pretty awesome, right?_**Derivco is an equal opportunities employer.

We value people as individuals with diverse opinions, cultures, lifestyles and circumstances and we are committed to equality of opportunity and to providing a productive working environment free from unfair and unlawful discrimination.


Job Description:


Derivco South Africa is seeking a highly skilled and motivated
Cloud & Open Source Technical Specialist to be part of our dynamic team.


Key responsibilities:

  • Work with or lead a team to break down solutions into small tasks that can be completed autonomously
  • Participate in the design of service automation in cloud towards Infrastructureascode.
  • Designing solutions that will operate at scale.
  • Driving adoption of new tools and techniques being able to understand their value and impact.
  • Deep experience with either Azure, AWS or physical datacenter infrastructure (such as hardware load balancers, imaging systems, out of band management, DNS).
  • Manage mission critical, large scale service in a global organization.
  • Strong technical knowledge of large scale, complex platforms.
  • Experience handling large numbers of diverse systems with configuration management systems like: Kubernetes, Puppet, Chef, Ansible, or Salt.
  • Sysadmin knowledge of DNS, network topology, routing, Docker, ELK, RabbitMQ, Kubernetes
  • Familiarity with distributed systems is a plus including: the CAP Theorem, Microservices, and the Twelve Factor Application principles.
  • Provide input into product selection and standards, design, and certification.
  • Run, maintain and schedule upgrades of missioncritical shared infrastructure.
  • Provide feedback regarding development and engineering methodologies, standards and leading practices.
  • Create and/or contribute to deliverables, technical and nontechnical, that are required to support DevOps transformations.
  • Requirements gathering for design, development and deployment
  • Root cause analysis and improvement solutions
  • Performing audits and analysis of existing products for the purpose of ensuring proper configuration management and consistency.
  • Adhere ITIL guidelines for Incident, Problem, and Change Management
  • Ability to work with 3rd party vendors (i.e. VMWare, Amazon, etc) for escalation of issues
  • Define and create standard operating procedures that are compliant and auditable
  • Experience in one of the following: C, C++, Java, Python, Go, Perl or Ruby
  • Ability to make key decisions as they relate to service disruptions and problems.
  • Expertise in designing, analysing, and troubleshooting largescale distributed systems.
  • Systematic problemsolving approach, excellent communication skills, and a sense of ownership and drive.
  • Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services, from inception and design, through deployment, operation, and refinement.
  • Support services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning, and launch reviews.
  • Monitor production alerts, investigate, and solve for both the short and long term.
  • Scale systems sustainable through mechanisms like automation, and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity.
  • Practice sustainable incident response and postmortems.
  • Manage the solution design (as the design authority) with high level architecture of software

Skills and Experience

  • Experience with Docker containers, Kubernetes and other types of Microservices and Container technologies such as Tanzu TKG & AKS highly preferred.
  • Linux and Windows administration experience
  • Deep understanding of firewalls, NAT and packet filtering (specifically lP tables)
  • General Networking skills required (Layer 2 & 3 switches, TCP/IP, SNMP, etc.)
  • Interest and ability to learn other technologies and tools as needed
  • Experience with various Microsoft and opensource based platforms is a plus (such as IIS, MsSQL, Apache, Tomcat, MySQL, Postgres, Mongo, Redis, Cassandra, etc.)
  • Flexibility in scheduling with a willingness to work extra nonstandard hours on occasion

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