Main job function
Responsibilities
Scheduling and overseeing Preventative Maintenance of the Serer / Systems Infrastructure
Ensure 99.99% availability of the systems Infrastructure
Liaise between System Engineers and Development Team
Serve as part of the Resolution team for system incidents
Monitor and support systems and virtualization environments
Manage configurations for all systems
The effective provisioning, installation, configuration and maintenance of systems hardware, software, virtual and related infrastructure
Control and verify system backups and file archiving, ensuring all required file systems and data are successfully backed up to appropriate media, media is stored and recycled.
Experience within a helpdesk environment
Liaise with service providers to ensure agreed SLAs are maintained
Do training /certification in relevant knowledge areas
Development and maintenance of security protocols and controls
Maintenance and development of business continuity solutions and disaster recovery
Perform regular audits
Form part of a standby roster for after hour support
Weekend work required from time to time based on a roster with possible 24/7 shift work
Relevant IT Certificates in regards to DevOps
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems
Technical experience:
Previous working experience as a DevOps Engineer for 2 years
Knowledge of virtualization (VMWare / Proxmox) 2 years
Working experience and knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift 2 years
Knowledge and experience with configuration tools (Ansible, Puppet) 2 years
Experience monitoring stacks (Cacti, Elk, Grafana / Prometheus) 2 years
Knowledge and experience with Software Version control systems (e.g., GIT, SVN etc.) 2 years
Knowledge and experience with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Gitlab and / or Travis CI)
Familiarity with networking architecture (Loading Balancing, TCP/IP, Routing) 2 years
Knowledge and content delivery network (Akmai) 2 years
Knowledge of Web Front-End Technologies (NGINX/F5) 2 years
Knowledge of Databases (MYSQL, Mongo) 2 years
Scripting or programming skills for automating tasks (Perl, Python, Shell) 2 years
Linux server (Alma, CentOS/RedHat, Ubuntu, Debian) 3 years
Understanding of Couchbase, Kibana, RabbitMQ, Firebase, Graylog, Backup methodologies:2 years
Internet technologies – DNS. SMTP, Proxies, Cache 2 years
Security best practices (hardening, vulnerability scans, DMZ0 2 years
A Consultant will be in touch if you are shortlisted for the position. Please consider your application unsuccessful should you not have been contacted within 2 weeks. We will keep your CV on our database and contact you should you match the criteria of any other vacancies.
