We are urgently looking for a DevOps engineer for Standard bank. The person will be expected to work on a hybrid bases going in 2x a week to the Rosebank office in JHB ( sometimes Simmonds street but not often)  BUT the client is moving towards full time back in office at some point so I just want to be fully transparent about this upfront.

Culture fit is extremely important for the hiring manager. He is looking for someone vibrant, with a great positive attitude as the team is very friendly and upbeat so they need someone who would fit in well.

The rate is between R 90 k – R 100k.  

Details of the spec below.

Since this is a hybrid role, the person is expected to live and work in JHB.

Please do let me know if you currently have any available resources.

Experience

• Hands on work experience in a hybrid (AWS) cloud environment preferably in the financial sector with PCI-DSS compliant systems.
  

• Implementing CI/CD pipeline automation across functional areas
  

• AWS workload automation (provisioning infrastructure and custom software configuration rollout)
  

• Implementing Observability for hybrid cloud-based environments
  

• Strong understanding of networking principles and protocols
  

• Troubleshooting low latency & Java based applications in a SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) context
  

• Familiarity/applying Platform Engineering principles and practices
  

Requirements

Technology & tooling

            Mandatory

·        AWS Services (EC2, RDS - Postgres & Oracle EE, EBS, EKS, ECS, Load Balancing, Secrets Manager, KMS, Service Catalog)

·        AWS CDK

·        Observability tooling - AWS CloudWatch, Splunk / AppDynamics, ELK

·        CI/CD platforms (e.g. Harness, Azure DevOps, GitLab, etc.)

·        Operating Systems - Linux and Windows server

Preferred

·        Python scripting

·        AWS CloudFormation

·        Ansible

·        Bash scripting

Optional

·        Zabbix monitoring

·        Keycloak

·        ActiveMQ

·        Weblogic 14c

·        Nginx

Personal Attributes

• Willingness to engage
  
• Curiosity
  
• Sound communication skills
  
• Ability to self-direct
  

Certifications (Beneficial)

• AWS CloudOps engineer
  
• AWS Solutions Architect Associate