DevOps / Senior Linux Engineer

SUMMARY:
Role: DevOps / Senior Linux Engineer
Location: Midrand, Johannesburg

Our client is a well-known and successful telco and they are looking for a DevOps Engineer to join their dynamic team. Your position offers opportunities to grow your expertise in cutting-edge technologies such as Kubernetes, Prometheus EKS, Grafana, AI, Python and more. With a focus on both DevOps and SysOps, you’ll collaborate with a team of like-minded professionals who are all working towards the shared goal of consistently improving the platform.

POSITION INFO:
Role:
- Work closely with fellow LE Engineers and other technical teams to design and deliver secure, reliable, and scalable solutions. These solutions will be built, tested, and deployed using continuous integration and deployment pipelines, ensuring a seamless transition from development to production.
- Manage team workloads while aligning with the expectations of key stakeholders.
- Identify and implement best practices in DevOps/SysOps alongside your peers to improve system performance and reliability.
- Identify and implement best practices in DevOps/SysOps, particularly focusing on writing, debugging, and reviewing code to enhance system automation.
- Visualize system metrics and performance data through dashboards hosted in Grafana.
- Use monitoring tools to ensure platform uptime, automatically surfacing valuable alerts.
- Utilize continuous delivery pipelines and tools to automate infrastructure deployments entirely.
- Troubleshoot and resolve issues within production environments, including performance optimization and continuous tuning.

Technical Skills required:
- Solid UNIX/Linux background – 5 years.
- Experience with configuration management tools (e.g., Chef, Ansible, Puppet) – ideally 3+ years.
- Familiarity with container management technologies, such as Kubernetes – ideally 3+ years.
- Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IaaC).
- Expos.
- Experience with popular CI platforms (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Bamboo, or Travis).
- Familiarity with SysOps practices and runbooks.
- Understanding of infrastructure deployment and templating (e.g., Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Terraform).
- Experience with advanced monitoring models (Prometheus is a plus).
- Knowledge of continuous integration and automated testing practices.
- Visualization experience (ELK, Grafana, or Splunk) is an advantage.
- RHCSA/RHCE certification is beneficial but not mandatory.