IT Devops Engineer – IT-Online

Deliverables:

• Implement and maintain infrastructure required for implementing DevOps practices.
• Enable automated deployment of applications and configurations.
• Enable automated monitoring and alerting.
• Enable automated end-to-end testing.
• Enable continuous release processes, practices and pipelines.
• Enable change management and audit requirements for release pipelines.
• Interest in designing, analyzing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
• Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with strong communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive.
• Ability to debug and optimize code and automate routine tasks.
• Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms such as easy to use tooling and automation
• Practice sustainable incident response and drive root case analysis

Competencies Required:

• Client / stakeholder commitment
• Drive for results
• Leads change and innovation
• Impact and influence
• Self-awareness and insight
• Diversity and inclusiveness
• Collaboration
• Governance
• Strong critical, analytical and research skills
• Desire to teach and mentor others
• Self-motivated, organized and able to work independently and as part of a team

Technology and Skill requirement:

• Linux – Be proficient in shell scripting
• Have a very good understanding of Linux operating systems able to identify OS level issues and resolve them with minimal down-time
• Be able to identify services running and their network configuration 2) WAS – Understand the basic operation of the websphere application server
• Be able to identify fault in particular node – Be able to view logs via ssh on file mount, as well as via Kibana 3)
• Queues – Have a good understanding of queuing and queuing systems such as IBM MQ 4) Jenkins
• Have a very good understanding of Jenkins
• Be able to find and identify faults with slaves running on remote docker servers
• Be able to find slave ssh access key issues 5) Ansible
• Have experience with creating and maintaining Ansible jobs 6) NginX – Understand reverse proxies
• Be able to read the nginx documentation and use it to extend our automated deployments and configuration
• Be able to pull metrics and identify trends and faults from nginx logs in Kibana
• Understand the impact of DNS resolution and nginx upstreams 7) Consul
• Understand the concept of a central key-value store – Understand multi-node single-leader clusters
• Be able to identify server-client communication faults – Understand service registration
• Understand configuration templates 8) Docker
• Have a very good understanding of containerization Understand multi-tenant systems and the implications of load balancing across multiple instances
• Be able to find faults in container setup and deployments – Have a good understanding of volume mounts and layered file systems 9) Kubernetes
• Have a good understanding of container orchestration – Understand cluster DNS
• Have experience with Istio service mesh
• Have a good understanding of namespaces and quotas – Understand kubernetes secrets and mounts
• Have experience with log trailing and event monitoring – Be able to manage an EKS cluster
• 10) Networking
• Know what a CIDR is
• Have a good understanding of general networking
• Be able to identify network faults
• Have a good understanding of firewalls
• Be able to set up and debug AWS Security Groups – Understand AWS VPCs and subnets
• Monitoring – Be proficient with KQL and the ElasticSearch DSL
• Be proficient with Prometheus queries and configuration – Understand Grafana or similar monitoring and alerting tools
• Be proficient with Cloudwatch metrics and logs
• Have a good understanding of tracing using tools such as Jaeger 12) Repositories
• Have a very good proficiency with Git
• Be proficient with Gitlab administration and Gitlab pipelines
• Understand docker and Maven registries and repositories such as Nexus and Artifactory 13) Databases – Be proficient with MongoDB and MongoDB Ops manager – Be proficient in SQL
• Have a good understanding of the PostgresQL DBMS
• Have experience with AWS RDS Aurora PostgresQL 14) AWS – Understand EC2 features, such as instance types, snapshots, ELB, and EBS – Be proficient in Cloudformation
• Understanding autoscaling and the cost implications
• Be proficient with creating and deploying AWS Lambda functions
• Understand IAM policies, users and roles – Have experience with Route53 and a good understanding of DNS in general
• Understand object storage with S3 15) Programming Languages – Python – Java – Javascript – Go Template Language

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Relavant IT degree/diploma/certification
• 4+ years of experience as a Site Reliability Engineer or similar role as an enabled of DevOps practices.
• 4+ years of experience as a Software Engineer or Java or Developer Middleware administrator

Desired Skills:

• AWS
• SQL
• Java
• Javascript
• Python

Desired Work Experience:

• 2 to 5 years Financial Advisory & Consulting Service
• 2 to 5 years Software Development

Desired Qualification Level:

About The Employer:

An Insurance and financial based industry company located in Centurion.

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