What you will be doing:
Design and build advanced cloud-native infrastructure
Guide technical discussions with clients and build technical roadmaps
Collaborate with the Engineering Director(s) to (re)design architecture
Assist the Site Reliability Manager with resource planning
Mentor other engineers and share knowledge
Document processes and monitor performance metrics
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
Constantly improve the stability, scalability, security, cost-effectiveness, and operational excellence of our clients' systems.
Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency and security.
Conduct infrastructure planning, testing, and development
What you must have:
At least five or more years experience working in a DevOps/SRE team
Extensive experience in DevOps/SRE, team management and collaboration
Advanced knowledge of best practices related to data encryption and cybersecurity
Advanced knowledge of the general DevOps/SRE landscape, architectures, and emerging technologies
Cloud experience, preferably GCP, Azure and AWS
Experience in Observability Practices and Incident Management
Extensive experience with Prometheus, Grafana, the Elastic Stack and all versions of Beats, especially within Kubernetes
Experience with Infrastructure as Code, preferably Terraform
Experience with general automation and config management, preferably Ansible
Extensive experience building and maintaining Kubernetes clusters and workloads
Strong foundation of basic network and security concepts
Ability to build robust CICD pipelines
Familiarity with relational and non-relational databases
Solid understanding of Linux operating systems
About you
For us to achieve our ambitious vision together as a team, It is important for our Martians to lead at all levels, be self starters who take initiative and put their hands up for challenging tasks. A growth mindset is important to us and we encourage all our Martians to openly share knowledge, support and help each other, ask questions, get creative with new technologies and learn from setbacks.
Becoming a Martian means:
Comfortably working and learning from a fully remote, culturally diverse team based predominantly in South Africa and Nigeria.
Being an open, honest and respectful communicator.
You enjoy asking questions, identifying areas of improvement and proposing solutions, no matter your job title or whether you have been with us for a day, a month or years!
You are comfortable taking initiative and operating independently.
You thrive in a fast paced environment, where change is constant.
You find it exciting to work with various clients, from different industries, each with a different problem for you and your team to solve.
Intentionally sharing tech and industry trends that excite you with your peers.
Seeking continuous feedback and actively taking steps to continuously grow personally and professionally.