Devops Engineer

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Job Description


Kick-start your career in the online gaming world and experience the very latest in technology and innovation.Portfolio: Enterprise ServicesEnterprise Services form the glue of the organization. Highly skilled teams servicing the technology landscape through governance, standards, learning and development in; the ingress, store, egress, and analytics of data; data science; quality assurance; and automation.Purpose:A member of our DevOps team needs to work closely with development and infrastructure to ensure fast and reliable continuous integration and to help facilitate the move to the cloud. DevOps is part of the technology department and as such it is expected that a candidate has a passion for technology and is always seeking to increase their knowledge and skills.Duties will include, but not limited to:Operating DutiesProviding leadership and accountability for work you undertakeArticulating your work and ideasAdapting to fast-changing business requirements in a dynamic environmentTaking on ideas and responding to feedback from the business and other technical expertsResearching and implementing new technologies within the DevOps space to improve the process of code deployment to our environments, seeking to eliminate inefficiency using relevant technology solutionsFollowing a source control culture within the configuration of servers and applications where environment configurations are stored in code for a fully automated process.Participating in a 24/7 support roster to support applications after hours, training other DevOps team members to resolve issues and reduce the dependency on yourself or other tech teams after hours.Taking part in daily stand-ups with the DevOps team and your assigned Dev teams to receive work and supply updates, and provide input with respect to design, monitoring, deployment, resource and security requirements.Attending Development meetings at project inception to ensure DevOps standards are adhered to, especially with respect to logging and monitoring of application health and compatibility with infrastructure design, security requirements and compliance and best practices.Maintaining knowledge of the inner workings of all applications within your portfolio, ensuring that all system dependencies are documented.Essential Requirements:The ability to rapidly learn and master new technologies; As technology changes, you will be expected to move with the times and become a master in your own right. Youll need to be a self-starter, not always relying on official/scheduled training. We need someone who loves learning, and who can teach themselves when required.Formal or information experience in the following areas:Azure DevOps (VSTS) - designing and implementing release processes for development teams (CI/CD)Experience with monitoring / logging / telemetry (ie: AppInsights / New Relic / App Dynamics / ElasticSearch)Azure Containers (or some Kubernetes exposure)Familiarity or experience with a programming / scripting languageKnowledge of web application security / WAFsDemonstrable knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (ie: Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM templates, etc)Experience working with Agile methodologies and DevOps principlesDesirable Requirements:Previous experience in 24/7 High Performance EnvironmentProven hands on experience with Windows Server/Linux and its product suite.Experience of automation tools such as ChefExperience with load balancers such as F5Knowledge of Azure SQL and Microsoft SQL ServerKnowledge of Web and Application hosting environments (IIS, Windows Services or Nginx)Knowledge of Microsoft Active Directory, LDAP, Network Security and Networking ProtocolsKnowledge of logging technologies such as LogStash, Kibana, ElasticSearchKnowledge of monitoring tools such as SolarwindsJob Competencies:Develop rich applications using the latest technology.Architect efficient and reusable systems that drive complex applications.Have an active role in all features and design decisions, defining system architecture.As Technical Lead be involved in defining development best practices and applying them in a large, distributed Development Team.Ability to maintain existing code base with variant designs and implementations and strive towards a better tomorrow.Have an active role in planning and agile process with team.Transfer knowledge to team and upskill team members*Please note we will apply relevance to our Talent Management and Talent Development Programme as part of our recruitment process.*Shortlisted candidates may need to complete an assessment.This position requires trust and honesty it has access to customers financial details - therefore a credit and criminal record check will be conducted. The qualifications identified herein are an inherent job requirement; therefore, a qualification verification check will be done. By applying for this role, and supplying the necessary details, you hereby grant us permission to apply for these checks. This will be done in a confidential manner, and solely for the purposes of verification.Should you not hear from us within 2 weeks, please deem your application as unsuccessful.The perfect place to work, play and grow!

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Job Detail

  • Job Id
    JD1305531
  • Industry
    Not mentioned
  • Total Positions
    1
  • Job Type:
    Full Time
  • Salary:
    Not mentioned
  • Employment Status
    Permanent
  • Job Location
    Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
  • Education
    Not mentioned