Snr DevOps Engineer required in Cape Town who will be responsible for managing, monitoring and provisioning of elastically scalable infrastructure, tools and techniques to support a fast-growing platform and distributed system. Degree + 5 Years’ experience with CI / CD specific AWS cloud and virtualization technologies.

Key duties:
• Managing infrastructure which includes setup, monitoring and alerts, resource allocation, and deployment architecture using a wide range of AWS cloud technologies
• Implement and manage network/routing setup as well as integration into external systems
• Implementation and automation of runtime environments for software in support of engineering development processes
• Drive virtualization technologies with continuous deployment and elastic scalability in mind
• Manage system security and backup strategies across a wide variety of technologies and products

Qualifications:
• Information Technology or Science Degree
• Minimum 5 years of experience
Attributes/Experience required:
• Ability to code and script
• Experience with Continuous Integration (CI) / Continuous Delivery (CD)
• Experience of *nix based systems and tools in order to administrate, manage and monitor
• Experience with configuration management (chef, puppet, git)
• Experience with specific AWS cloud technologies (EC2, ECS, Route53, ELB, EBS, VPC, S3, CloudWatch)
• Experience with virtualization technologies (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes)
Nice to have:
• Experience with NoSQL, PostgreSQL, Dynamo, Elasticsearch
• Experience with common web stack applications (nginx, tornado)
• Experience with messaging platforms (Kafka, Kinesis)
• Experience with Google (GCM, Firebase)