INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEER / DEVOPS

INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEER

South African fintech company, driving ambitious change in payments and loyalty, bringing the benefits of ecommerce to any environment. We are a passionate and collaborative team of developers, engineers, designers, visionaries, techies, geeks and nerds. We appreciate a good cup of coffee but not as much as quality delivery. We build products that make payments simpler, easier, and more insightful and rewarding. Our products are scalable, secure, reusable and push the boundaries of innovation. No idea goes unheard.

Job Description

• If you are an Infrastructure Engineer, with extensive experience in AWS and are looking for your next challenge – then we have an opportunity for you! We are looking for a team player to join our Operations team. This team is responsible infrastructure, uptime, monitoring and all the other behind the scenes work across offerings.
• We are Looking for someone who is not afraid of a challenge and enjoys working in a fast-paced, complex environment.

Essential Criteria

• 3+ Years of experience with AWS
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate or higher certificate
• Intermediate Linux experience ubuntu/Debian
• Extensive experience with Windows
• Networking experience

Required Experience

• Relevant IT qualification or experience if no formal qualification
• Monitoring tools (Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, Elastic)
• Cloud infrastructure experience (built and managed) using AWS with the following competenticIes: EC2, ECS – Fargate, VPC - security groups, VPN, Natting, peering, R53 – DNS public/private, S3 AMI, IAM, AWS Back UP, RDS, Dynamodb, Elasticache, DMS, Directory service/AD management/DNS,API Gateway, Cloudfront.
• Cloud Formation templates/CDK Knowledge
• Certificate management, IIS and Linux
• Experience with Azure Dev Ops, CI/CD advantageous.
• Ability to troubleshoot problems with limited insights.
• Comfortable working with a small team in a fast-paced environment

Personal Attributes

• Strong communication skills
• Self-motivated and driven
• Takes ownership and initiative
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Detail Orientated
• Highly adaptable
• Collaborative problem solver
• Can extrapolate based on limited information