Senior DevOps Architect at TalentUp Africa

Job Description

• In this role, you’ll work with innovative builders who are pushing the boundaries of cloud technology.
• You’ll get to be bold, think big, and make an impact on your career. You’ll be encouraged to bring your experiences, talents, and passions to work.
• You will act as a leader with extensive automation and programming experience throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC). You will service and develop capabilities across multiple teams or organizations. You have strong presentation, verbal communication and written communication skills.

Your Profile

Qualification and Experience

• Bachelor's Degree and 8+ years of experience as a technical specialist.
• Must have two (2) active AWS certification, AWS Solutions Architect Associate or Professional and the AWS DevOps Engineer Professional Certification.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience of programming in languages such as Python, Ruby, Go, Swift, Java, .Net, C++ or similar object-oriented language.
• Experience with architecting and automating cloud native technologies, deploying applications, and provisioning infrastructure.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code, using CloudFormation, Terraform, or other tools.
• Experience architecting cloud native CI/CD workflows and tools, such as Jenkins, Bamboo, TeamCity, Code Deploy (AWS) and/or GitLab.
• Hands-on experience with microservices and distributed application architecture, such as containers, Kubernetes, and/or serverless technology

Nice to have

• Experience with Chef, Puppet, Salt, or Ansible in production environments.
• Knowledge of IP networking, VPN's, DNS, load balancing and firewall.
• Experience with monitoring and log aggregating frameworks such as Kafka, Logstash, Splunk, ElastiSearch, and Kibana.
• Experience implementing and designing cloud native security concepts, DevSecOps or MLOps.