Senior Hybrid Azure Cloud Engineer (Hybrid work) Bryanston (TB)

About

• 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 a 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.

Responsibilities

• 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

• 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

• 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).

Desired Skills

• Senior Hybrid Azure Cloud Engineer
• Hybrid Azure Cloud Engineer
• Azure Cloud Engineer