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DevSecOps Engineer

MIT Recruitment
9 days ago
Full-time
Remote
South Africa
Automation

Introduction

This role aims to implement DevOps principles and practices within engineering teams by offering training, documentation, and direct, hands-on expertise. The DevOps Engineer will be responsible for the entire lifecycle of our infrastructure, from design through the development process and into production.

This DevOps Engineer will be responsible for developing and maintaining infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud services. The role involves close collaboration with development teams to ensure reliable deployment of software, continuous integration, and delivery processes.

You will be working alongside other DevOps engineers, SRE engineers, and Architects with oversight over many services and tools.

Goals for Role:

  1. Enhance the efficiency and reliability of our development pipeline.

  2. Foster a culture of automation and continuous improvement.

  3. Improve system performance, scalability, and apply best practice.

  4. Reduce the lead time for changes and the mean time to recovery.

Duties & Responsibilities

  1. Role expectations:

    • ●  Design, implement, and manage infrastructure as code using tools like Terraform.

    • ●  Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI/CD.

    • ●  Manage cloud infrastructure (AWS) and ensure high availability and scalability.

    • ●  Implement observability solutions including logging, monitoring, and alerting.

    • ●  Automate repetitive tasks to reduce toil and improve system reliability.

    • ●  Collaborate with development teams to integrate and optimize applications.

    • ●  Participate in on-call rotations for adhoc tasks.

    • ●  Document processes and best practices for infrastructure and deployment.

Desired Experience & Qualification

  1. Required Qualifications:

    • ●  Proficiency with infrastructure as code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation).

    • ●  Experience with configuration management tools (Ansible, Puppet, Chef).

    • ●  Strong understanding of CI/CD principles and tools (GitLab CI, Jenkins).

    • ●  Experience with cloud platforms (AWS(preferred), GCP, Azure).

    • ●  Knowledge of containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).

    • ●  Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, Datadog).

    • ●  Familiarity with Event driven technologies(Kafka, SQS, SNS)

 

  • Preferred Qualifications and skill set:

  • ●  Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.

  • ●  10 years of experience in DevOps, Systems Engineering, or related roles

  • ●  Experience in a fintech or payments industry.

  • ●  Knowledge of a scripting language (Python, Bash, etc).

  • ●  Understanding of network and security principles(PCI, ISO27001, SOC2 advantageous).

  • ●  Familiarity with Agile and DevOps methodologies.

 

Our Tech Stack
● Tech Stack: Java 17, Spring Boot microservices; AWS Lambda, Serverless, multi-AZ with Terraform IaC.

●  Containers & Discovery: Nomad clusters Docker/containerd) with Consul service discovery and mesh. ●  CI/CD & Automation: Git, GitLab Pipelines; configuration as code using Ansible and Packer.

●  Data & Messaging: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, RabbitMQ.

●  Security: HashiCorp Vault with dynamic secrets rotation.

●  Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, distributed tracing, Sentry, FusionReactor, logz.io.