DEVOPS ENGINEER

Cape Town, Stellenbosch or Johannesburg

Reports to the Platform Team Lead

Our client is a leading South African online retailer, they are looking for a highly talented Software Development Engineer to join their team in Cape Town, Stellenbosch or Johannesburg.

They are a young, dynamic, hyper growth company looking for smart, creative, hardworking people to join them. They offer market related benefits, a great work environment and a promise that you won’t be bored as long as you are prepared for a challenge and want to build something great.

Requirements

• 3-year computer science degree (or equivalent experience)
• At least 2 years of professional experience
• An understanding of computer science fundamentals, including linux and operating systems, networking
• Solid grasp of development fundamentals such as data structures and algorithms

Advantageous

• Linux experience (Ubuntu/Debian)
• Shell scripting
• Python, ruby, or a similar language
• Understanding of linux and OS fundamentals (processes, signals, sysctl)
• General debugging tools on linux (tcpdump, vmstat, strace)
• System administration (users, packages, ntp, smtp)
• Network theory and administration (linux)
• Configuration management (chef, puppet)
• Common web stack applications (nginx, apache, varnish, haproxy, memcache)
• Database operations, query optimization, backup strategy
• Hardware installation and configuration (raid, filesystems, lvm)
• Metrics, monitoring (nagios, zabbix, sensu, graphite)
• Security (iptables, selinux, ssh)
• Cloud infrastructure (AWS, Google, Azure)
• Virtualization technologies (xen, kvm)
• Distributed systems
• Capacity planning
• Hadoop