DevOps Engineer with Linux Expertise

4 weeks ago


Midrand, Gauteng, South Africa Elite Search Full time
Job Title: DevOps / Senior Linux Engineer

At Elite Search, we are seeking a highly skilled DevOps / Senior Linux Engineer to join our team. As a key member of our engineering team, you will play a crucial role in designing and delivering secure, reliable, and scalable solutions.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Collaborate with fellow engineers and technical teams to design and implement continuous integration and deployment pipelines.
  • Manage team workloads and align with key stakeholder expectations.
  • Identify and implement best practices in DevOps/SysOps to improve system performance and reliability.
  • Visualize system metrics and performance data through dashboards hosted in Grafana.
  • Use monitoring tools to ensure platform uptime and automatically surface valuable alerts.
  • Utilize continuous delivery pipelines and tools to automate infrastructure deployments entirely.
  • Troubleshoot and resolve issues within production environments, including performance optimization and continuous tuning.
Technical Skills:
  • Solid UNIX/Linux background with at least 5 years of experience.
  • Experience with configuration management tools such as Chef, Ansible, or Puppet, ideally 3+ years.
  • Familiarity with container management technologies like Kubernetes, ideally 3+ years.
  • Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IaaC).
  • Experience with popular CI platforms such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Bamboo, or Travis.
  • Familiarity with SysOps practices and runbooks.
  • Understanding of infrastructure deployment and templating using tools like Puppet, Chef, Ansible, or Terraform.
  • Experience with advanced monitoring models, including Prometheus.
  • Knowledge of continuous integration and automated testing practices.
  • Visualization experience with tools like ELK, Grafana, or Splunk is an advantage.
  • RHCSA/RHCE certification is beneficial but not mandatory.

We are looking for a highly skilled and experienced DevOps / Senior Linux Engineer to join our team. If you have a strong background in UNIX/Linux and DevOps, we encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity.



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