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Job Location drjobs

Cape Town - South Africa

Monthly Salary drjobs

Not Disclosed

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Salary Not Disclosed

Vacancy

1 Vacancy

Job Description

Contract Role

Minimum Requirements:

  • Certification in cloud technologies platform engineering or related domains.
  • Experience with advanced CI/CD pipelines infrastructure as code and version control systems (e.g. Git).
  • Deep understanding of cybersecurity principles and practices.
  • Advanced knowledge of networking concepts and protocols.
  • Strong SRE skills.
  • Experience in the use and management of Vendor packaged software including patching and upgrades.
  • Experience with monitoring and observability architecture tools deployment maintenance of multivendor tool suite environments compliance with published SLAs including but not limited to: Dynatrace Canary Checker Loki Grafana Prometheus Cloudwatch

Responsibilities:

  • Technical Leadership and Strategy: Lead the development and execution of the organizations platform engineering strategy. Provide technical leadership and guidance to the platform engineering team ensuring alignment with business goals.
  • Team Management: Manage and mentor a team of platform engineers fostering a collaborative and highperformance team culture.
  • Conduct regular performance assessments set goals and provide constructive feedback.
  • Infrastructure Architecture: Oversee the design and implementation of scalable and reliable technology platforms.
  • Collaborate with crossfunctional teams to understand business
    requirements and contribute to architectural decisions.
  • Cloud Platform Management: Provide expertlevel guidance in managing and optimizing cloud resources on platforms such as AWS Azure or Google Cloud.
  • Implement and enforce advanced best practices for cloud architecture security and cost optimization.
  • Automation: Lead the development and maintenance of advanced automation scripts using tools like Ansible Terraform or similar technologies.
  • Orchestration Excellence: Implement robust orchestration processes to automate complex deployment and configuration workflows.
    Security and Compliance Leadership: Establish and enforce comprehensive security measures and compliance standards for infrastructure components.
  • Lead the organizations efforts in maintaining a secure and compliant technology environment.
  • Collaboration and Stakeholder Management: Collaborate with senior leadership product teams and other stakeholders to align platform engineering initiatives with business objectives.
  • Act as a key liaison between the platform engineering team and other business units.
  • Incident Response: Lead incident response activities participate in complex troubleshooting efforts and contribute to the resolution of critical system issues.
  • Problem Resolution: Proactively identify and address potential challenges to ensure system stability.
  • Application lifecycle management: Lead the creation and maintenance of processes procedures and governance. Ensure compliance requirements are met.
  • Continuous maintenance and improvement of the environment.
  • Evaluation (initiate or participate) of new solutions.
  • Ensure that all solutions are on supported versions software is fully licensed and that upgrades are planned for timeously.
  • Collaboration: Collaborate with various teams (crossfunctional software platform security data architecture and DevSecOps) to ensure successful delivery of outcomes.
  • Application Performance Monitoring: Improve on existing alerts and reports and implement additional appropriate alerts and reports to ensure all critical systems and processes are monitored for availability and reliability.
  • Ensure issues are identified and attended to ensure
    no impact to system consumers.

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