Senior Hybrid Azure Cloud Engineer

Introduction

• Permanent EE (Employment Equity) vacancy.

• Only South African citizens can apply.

• Location: Century City (Cape Town).

• Hybrid work (first 3 months of the probation period the candidate must be on-site full-time (not negotiable) and thereafter hybrid will apply (3 x days on-site and 2 x days remote).

• 5 – 8 year’s work experience required in a similar role.

• Minimum of 3+ years hands-on experience supporting Cloud technologies and Linux systems.

• Clean credit record and no criminal record.

• Reference: Hybrid Cloud Engineer (Cape Town) TB

• Salary includes: Basic salary plus provident fund & 2 performance bonuses per year.

Job Description

Main job functions:

• Recruiting an expert who thrives in dynamic, hybrid cloud environments.

• In this role, you’ll be at the forefront of implementing and monitoring cloud- native business applications running on orchestrated container platforms in hybrid cloud environment.

• Security is critical and you’ll take charge of vulnerability scans, assessments and patching, ensuring that the platforms stay secure and resilient.

• Ability to make decisions to technically resolve business requirements.

Job functions:

• Work tightly with our customers, to understand, capture, and deliver against their requirements.

• Design and build distributed systems.

• Ability to work with the Operator Framework.

• Having an interest in diving into OpenShift and ODF (OpenShift Data Foundation).

• Work with your fellow engineers and the community to serve our customers.

• Support the requests of the Production and Development Teams to solve any problems related to the container platforms.

• Develop and oversee the backup, replication and disaster recovery strategies

• Maintain documentation for procedures, configurations and programs.

• Ensure systems adhere to NIST and Departmental standards

• Develop automation scripts using Ansible or equivalent.

• Maintain software repositories and apply software updates.

• Install, configure and maintain OpenShift environment

• Maintain/Monitor (i.e. Prometheus) the health of the systems through both automated and manual processes.

• Linux integration with other environments (authentication/directory services, network file systems, etc.)

• Cloud computing in general (provisioning, monitoring, orchestration, etc.)

• Understand OS and Application-level issues and advise on next steps

• Ability to communicate clearly and set the right expectations with all stakeholders.

• Applicable understanding of RedHat OpenShift and Kubernetes

• Understand infrastructure as code and the typical toolchains for implementing and maintaining these practices

• Act as a mentor and coach to junior and intermediate team members, fostering their growth and development.

Minimum Requirements

Qualifications and experience required:

• Matric plus an IT Degree (Computer Science/Engineering) or 3 year National IT Diploma.

• 5 – 8 year’s work experience required in a similar role.

• Minimum of 3+ years hands-on experience supporting Cloud technologies and Linux systems.

Advantageous qualifications:

• Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA)

• Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration

• Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)

• Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA)

Technical skills and experience required:

• Minimum of 3+ years hands-on experience supporting Cloud technologies and Linux systems including:

• Container technologies: Docker, Podman, Crio, Containerd.

• Container orchestration: Kubernetes, OpenShift.

• Linux RedHat.

• Understanding Linux troubleshooting and permission SELinux.

• Ansible & Prometheus.

• Storage technologies - block, object.

• Integration with other environments (authentication/directory services, network file systems, etc.).

• Troubleshooting experience.

• Solid Cloud (Azure) experience (hybrid Cloud).

• Programming fundamentals in any language.

• Customer support experience (customer needs are top priority).

Package & Remuneration

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