
Associate DevOps Engineer
- Cape Town, Western Cape
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Become familiar with technologies used by the squad - GCP, AWS, Terraform, Terrakube, Jenkins, CircleCI, GitHub Actions, Gradle, Docker, GKE, ArgoCD, Argo Rollouts, SonarQube, Sonatype Nexus & Lifecycle, Prometheus, Grafana, MySQL
- Maintain & continuously improve CI/CD pipelines & staging provisioning pipelines that drive feature development
- Collaborate with a distributed team to fulfill the department's quarterly objectives
- Automate recurring manual tasks & iteratively optimize those tasks
- Perform code reviews
- Research and prototype new technologies
- Write and maintain documentation
- Support software development squads in multiple timezones to:
- Onboard new micro services
- Grant required permissions
- Respond to alerts & ad hoc CI/CD related issues, review error messages, and fix bugs in a timely manner to unblock feature development hindrances to meet sprint timelines
- Support software testing and quality assurance processes to ensure high-quality deliverables
- Excellent communication skills & high proficiency in English
- At least 4 years of experience in the tech industry
- A solid understanding of the Linux operating system
- Experience with IaC (infrastructure of code) tools to drive automation and self service, preferably Hashicorp Terraform
- Experience with coding and scripting languages like Groovy, Java, Nodejs, Python and Shell.
- The ability to identify, evaluate, and integrate diverse open-source technologies and cloud services.
- Experience with public cloud platforms, including AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google
- Experience with business tools like Atlassian Jira & Confluence
- Experience with Kubernetes, whether that's GKE, AKS, EKS, OpenShift, etc
- Experience with CI/CD tools like Jenkins, ArgoCD, etc
- Experience with Git version control, preferable GitHub
- Proficiency in troubleshooting and resolving technical issues across staging and production environments
- Unlimited PTO policy
- Take the time off that you need. We are truly committed to a positive work-life balance, recognising that it is important to be happy and fulfilled in both
- Training & Development
- Learning the advanced partnership automation products
- Medical Aid and Provident Fund
- Group schemes with Discovery & Bonitas for medical aid
- Group scheme with 10X provident fund
- Stock Options
- 3-year vesting schedule pending Board approval
- Primary caregiver leave
- Internet Allowance
- Flexible work hours
- Casual work environment
- Technology stipend