Takealot Vacancies – DevOps Engineer

Job Description:

As a DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for managing, monitoring, and provisioning of elastically scalable infrastructure, tools, and techniques to support a fast-growing platform and distributed system.

Job Responsibilities:

• Implement and manage network/routing setup as well as integration into external systems
• Manage system security and backup strategies across a wide variety of technologies and products
• Drive virtualization technologies with continuous deployment and elastic scalability in mind
• Managing infrastructure which includes setup, monitoring and alerts, resource allocation, and deployment architecture using a wide range of AWS cloud technologies
• Implementation and automation of runtime environments for software in support of engineering development processes

Job Requirements:

• Ability to code and script
• Experience with specific AWS cloud technologies (EC2, ECS, Route53, ELB, EBS, VPC, S3, CloudWatch)
• Experience of *nix based systems and tools in order to administrate, manage and monitor
• Experience with virtualization technologies (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes)
• Experience with configuration management (chef, puppet, git)

Qualification & Experience:

• Information Technology or Computer Science Degree or equivalent 5 years relevant experience.
• Minimum 3 years of experience.
• Experience with common web stack applications (nginx, tornado)
• Experience with NoSQL, PostgreSQL, Dynamo, Elasticsearch
• Experience with messaging platforms (Kafka, Kinesis)
• Experience with Google (GCM, Firebase)

Job Details:

Company: Takealot

Vacancy Type:  Full Time

Job Location: Cape Town, Western Cape, SA

Application Deadline: N/A

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