Metropolitan Vacancies in Cape Town – CloudOps Engineer

Job Description:

We are looking for an experienced cloud engineer to work with our development and SRE teams to develop, implement, optimize, and maintain cloud-based solutions. You will be responsible for deploying and debugging cloud stacks, educating teams on new cloud initiatives, and ensuring the security of the cloud infrastructure.

To be successful as a cloud engineer, you should be able to identify the most optimal cloud-based solutions for our clients and maintain cloud infrastructures in accordance with best practices and company security policies. A top-notch cloud engineer should have excellent troubleshooting skills, stay current with industry trends, and should be a team player.

From time to time you may even do some development work, be it DepOps Scripting or just working in a development team.

Take responsibility for monitoring production systems and providing support when there is an incident and managing communications and escalations around the incidents.

Job Responsibilities:

• Work with DevOps, SRE and other relevant teams to support Cloud infrastructure
• Work with Architect to support and provide relevant Cloud knowledge as required
• Collaborating with engineering(I&O) and development teams to evaluate and identify optimal cloud solutions
• Modifying and improving existing systems.
• Educating teams on the implementation of new cloud technologies and initiatives.
• Designing, developing and deploying modular cloud-based systems.
• Developing and maintaining cloud solutions in accordance with best practices.
• Ensuring efficient functioning of data storage and processing functions in accordance with company security policies and best practices in cloud security.
• Identifying, analyzing, and resolving infrastructure vulnerabilities and application deployment issues.
• Regularly reviewing existing systems and making recommendations for improvements.
• Provide insight on application and infrastructure performance
• Assist with the the development of tools or automation that can improve efficiencies and increase monitoring capabilities.
• Troubleshoot technical issues with infrastructure and applications.
• Escalate incidents to other teams, be a central communication channel across teams,
• The ability to design the Cloud solutions with a focus on cost saving.

Job Requirements:

• 2 – 3 years’ experience as a Developer or Cloud Engineeer
• At least 2 – 3 years of experience in the field of Cloud computing
• Experience in Cloud environment (essential)
• Experience with CI/CD systems.
• Experience with SysOps and Devops
• Azure, AWS, and GCP certifications preferred.
• Insurance industry experience preferred
• Agile software development practices and tools
• Relevant experience with Cloud Services
• Proficient with technologies used within the business (MMI-specific list)
• Minimum 1 object-oriented and 1 scripting language
• Linux / Unix experience
• Online version control systems (Subversion, GitHub, Bitbucket)
• Java application build processes and tools (Ant, Gradle, Jenkins, and Artifactory)
• Monitoring and alerting tools (Alerta, Selenium, Prometheus, InfluxDB, Elastic Stack)
• Configuration management and containerisation tools (Terraform, Chef, Puppet, Salt, Ansible, Docker, Mesos or similar technologies)
• Cloud server environment administration (Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Azure, Openstack)
• Data integrity, security and continuity of business
• Common data stores, both relational and NoSQL
• IPv4/6 networking, web protocols and Linux/Unix systems
• Building microservices or service-oriented architectures (SOA and REST)

Job Details:

Company: Metropolitan

Vacancy Type:  Full Time

Job Location: Cape Town

Application Deadline: N/A

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