Intermediate Platform Engineer

2 weeks ago

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa Boardroom Appointments Full time R80 000 - R120 000 per year


Minimum requirements:

  • Bachelor's degree or relevant work experience.
  • At least 3 to 5 years in active Development roles.
  • Experience with most of the technology used, but specifically Terraform and Docker.
  • Have strong operational experience with AWS, Linux and MySQL.
  • Professional, Self-motivated attitude. 
  • Proficient in written and oral English communication.
  • Eager to learn, open to constructive criticism and willing to be a team player in delivering the best solutions possible.
  • Be comfortable working in an agile and fast-paced environment.
  • Seasoned communicator, proficient in technical and business/ functional aspects of the software development process.
  • Team player and willing to go beyond the call of duty when the need arises.

Responsibilities:

  • Your mission will be to build and maintain vertical independent infrastructure, development pipelines and software services and set group-wide platform engineering standards.
  • Assist in Research, P.O.C and implementation of new technologies or services to be adopted by the entire Group.
  • Configuration and management of various servers/instances via Docker, Terraform and Ansible.
  • Everything runs on docker, but we are still in the process of moving legacy over to docker.
  • Write scripts and automation using Bash/Python/Groovy.
  • Reviewing and approving the work of your peers as part of the software development process.
  • Maintaining our Cloud Infrastructure primarily on AWS.
  • Maintaining the reliability of our CI/CD.
  • Build independent web-based tools and microservices to help dev workflows.
  • Planning and Implementation of backup scenarios, log-rotations and overall scaling concepts for large datasets.
  • Keep abreast with industry trends, new technologies and best practices in the DevOps and development space.
  • Proactively improve products, systems and processes.
  • Deliver software and projects according to agreed timelines.
  • Tenacity and the ability to solve complex software bugs.

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