Platform Engineer
at Progressive Edge
Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa -
Start Date | Expiry Date | Salary | Posted On | Experience | Skills | Telecommute | Sponsor Visa |
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Immediate | 25 Jun, 2024 | Not Specified | 26 Mar, 2024 | N/A | Automation | No | No |
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Description:
REQUIREMENTS:
- AWS Associate Level Certification or substantial years of experience
- Preferred: Kubernetes Application Developer certification or substantial years of experience
- Be familiar with Kubernetes Administrative tasks
- Experience with IaC tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation or CDKS
- Experience with Kubernetes GitOps practises and using tools such as ArgoCD/ Flux or Helm/ Kustomize
- Experience monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch
- Building of platform APIs, automation, tooling and/or internal developer platforms.
Responsibilities:
THE ROLE
We are looking for a Platform Engineer or Cloud Engineer with solid experience working with Kubernetes and containerised workloads, CI/CD tools and in building and supporting apps running on AWS.
Candidates must have a good understanding of the following services and/or concepts:
- AWS (EKS, VPC, S3, RDS, IAM, Fargate, Lambda, CloudFront) and Well-Architected Frameworks
- Observability and Monitoring (XRay, CloudWatch, Open Tracing, Grafana)
- Kubernetes (EKS) experience
- DevOps Practices and CI/CD Tools (AWS DevOps Tools, Jenkins)
- Cloud Native Toolsets (Helm, Kustomize)
- Containerisation
- Programming languages (Python, Go, Java, JavaScript)
- Linux experience
- Distributed systems and architectures.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- CI/CD with Jenkins pipelines as code or similar (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps)
- Kubernetes Administration (Ingress, Networking, RBAC)
- Enhancing monitoring and observability (SLO, SLI, SLA) and alerting
- Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) user (Terraform, CloudFormation, Crossplane)
- Release management and oversite
- SRE practices such as incident response, automation, reliability and monitoring.
REQUIREMENT SUMMARY
Min:N/AMax:5.0 year(s)
Information Technology/IT
IT Software - Application Programming / Maintenance
Software Engineering
Graduate
Proficient
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Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa