Our client requires the services of a Site Reliability Engineer (Senior) with a minimum 6 years operations working experience Contract until December 2027 (Gauteng based) What will be your role and responsibilities?
You will be a team member of a larger product team that focusses on the development and support of a several mission-critical components You will be working on large-scale fault-tolerant systems and thrive to always improve the resiliency of our systems You will work closely with the development team and the product owner and are responsible for the planning and co-ordination of all "Design for Run" activities You will strive to improve the whole lifecycle of our services from inception, architecture design through deployment and operating these mission-critical systems As a SRE with deep understanding of the underlaying systems, you take part in 24/7 on-call rotations with teams around the world and can restore systems in efficient manner Advantageous skills requirements: Ability to build highly automated CI/CD pipelines with customized automation scripts using bash or Python IaaS knowledge, e.g., deployment and maintenance of Linux VMs (ansible) Experience with cloud technologies: Confluent Kafka Managed Kubernetes Engines, like Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Proxies, like Azure Application gateway Managed databases, such as PostgreSQL Working with CI/CD pipeline systems from Gitlab and/or Github Actions Git and repository hosting platforms such as Gitlab, Nexus & Github (Self hosted) Technical Knowledge - Required: Experience with Container Orchestrations Platforms preferably Kubernetes Experience with Unix/Linux operating systems internals and administration or in-depth knowledge of the Unix networking stack.
In-depth network know-how: Subnetting, Routing, Firewalling, DNS, (reverse)-proxies & understanding of OSI layers In-depth low-level understanding of the TCP stack and can debug problems on the "socket/driver" level.
Working knowledge with software development in one or more of the following languages: C#, JavaScript/Typescript Any additional responsibilities assigned in the Agile Working Model (AWM) Charter If you are a motivated individual with the necessary qualifications and experience, we invite you to submit your CV.
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