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Senior DevOps Engineer

What to expect

Ozow is looking for a Senior DevOps engineer that has experience designing and implementing DevOps solutions to assist the technical team with securing, automating, monitoring and running their mostly web-based application workloads. We are looking for a person with both Linux and Windows experience, who has a passion for automation to help the technical team move faster by enabling them and guiding them where necessary (e.g. automation / security / infrastructure setup / serverless applications).  

You should have mentoring abilities, with the ability to liaise and interact with development teams, QA teams as well as other DevOps engineers. The ability to deliver value while adhering to best practises and stay abreast of industry developments are key. 

We primarily run web application workloads in cloud hosted infrastructure with a huge drive to go more serverless (e.g. AWS Lambda / Azure Functions) and run workloads using container orchestration (Kubernetes / AWS ECS). 

 

Requirements

  • An IT diploma or degree 
  • At least 5 years work-related experience 
  • Experience automating development pipelines using tools such as Jenkins / Team City / AppVeyor / Octopus Deploy / AWS Code Deploy 
  • Experience with cloud hosted infrastructure 
  • Experience with container orchestration (Kubernetes / ECS)

 

Advantageous: 

  • Cloudformation / Terraform 
  • Security - Network Security (Firewalls, Anti-Virus) and Application security (e.g. Defending against the OWASP Top 10) 
  • Serverless applications (e.g. AWS Lambda / AWS API Gateway / Azure Functions) 
  • Linux and Windows Sys Admin and hosting (e.g. nginx / IIS) 

 

In office perks 

  • Healthy breakfast, lunches and snacks (Cape Town) 
  • Healthy lunches and snacks (Johannesburg) 
  • Monthly socials (Cape Town and Johannesburg) 
  • On-site Barista (Cape Town and Johannesburg) 
  • Ozow Library (Cape Town)  
  • Birthday Leave

 

Perks for South African based employees

  • Medical aid subsidy (permanent staff)
  • Group Risk Insurance (permanent staff)
  • Generous paid annual leave   
  • Learning and Development opportunities 
  • Mentorship programme
  • Quarterly team building 
  • Community initiatives 
  • Employee gifting 
  • Access to cutting edge technology 

 

Our Employee Value Proposition

Join Ozow and become part of an elite force that challenges the ordinary and achieves the extraordinary. If you're driven to make an impact, embrace challenges, and seek unparalleled opportunities for growth, your journey starts here.

Ready to be exceptional? Apply now! 

As a fintech company, we prioritize data security and compliance. Due to the sensitive nature of our work, we require individuals with a high level of integrity and trustworthiness to ensure adherence to financial regulations and industry standards.

 

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To find out more about life at Ozow, head over to our Careers Page here!

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