Senior DevOps Engineer: Enterprise

Mukuru is on the lookout for a Senior Enterprise DevOps Engineer to join our amazing team of experts. This role is open to applicants from Cape Town, Johannesburg, and Pretoria.

If you are a technically minded individual who enjoys interacting and working alongside people; a self-driven person with exceptional attention to detail and an interest in automation and integration, then keep reading…

The main responsibility of this role is the development, management, and maintenance of enterprise infrastructure, ensuring industry standards are implemented with good governance in mind.

Reporting directly to the Head of IT Strategy and Architecture, this role works alongside the wider DevOps team to ensure resilience, performance, and reliability across cloud enterprise platforms, services, and applications.

Duties and Responsibilities (but not limited to):

1. Manage all cloud-based infrastructure classified as enterprise infrastructure.
2. Manage business intelligence infrastructure.
3. Manage infrastructure of acquired systems.
4. Ensure all infrastructure is built and maintained using enterprise standards.
5. Ensure all infrastructure is managed with Infrastructure as Code or similar.
6. Proactively enhance and refine monitoring and alerting systems.
7. Ensure that all systems are highly available.
8. Ensure redundancy, failover, and recovery of systems.
9. Ensure regular backups and build automated backup recovery testing.
10. Perform Disaster Recovery testing and identify potential improvements.
11. Ensure that Recovery Time Objectives are met.
12. Ensure systems are regularly patched and upgraded, with critical and security patches applied as soon as they are available.
13. Ensure cost optimization of infrastructure and identify ways to optimize performance.
14. Ensure high-level design documentation and system diagrams are produced.
15. Collaborate and communicate effectively.
16. Attend and actively contribute in all relevant meetings in line with agile methodology.
17. Knowledge and skill share with DevOps engineers in the team.
18. Manage own professional and self-development.

Key Requirements:

1. Grade 12 or equivalent (Essential).
2. Related tertiary qualification (Desirable).
3. 5+ years’ experience in the DevOps and/or SysAdmin space.
4. Experience managing IaaS - AWS (Primary), Azure (Secondary).
5. Solid experience in Linux administration (Essential).
6. Experience in scripting in at least one language.
7. Experience working with VMs and Containers.
8. Experience with building PCI / ISO27001 systems (Desirable).
9. Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) – Terraform (Primary), CloudFormation (Secondary).
10. Knowledge of backups, retention, and DR testing.
11. Knowledge of network management: DNS, routing, firewalls, load balancing, proxies, and VPNs.
12. Knowledge of web servers, databases, messaging queues.
13. Knowledge of managing CI/CD, monitoring, and alerting applications.
14. Knowledge of database management.
15. Knowledge of agile and TDD methodology.
16. Experience in Banking and/or FinTech sector is favorable.

Additional Skills:

1. Multitasking skills.
2. Analytical and problem-solving skills.
3. Excellent debugging and troubleshooting skills.
4. Attention to detail.
5. Ability to work independently.
6. Teamworking and collaboration.

I am sure you are reading this job description and meet the majority of the criteria BUT you may also still not be 100% comfortable applying. We believe that there is a place for everyone under the Mukuru sun and we want YOU to contribute to our diverse tapestry of talent. So come on, take a leap of faith, and send your application if you meet the majority of our requirements. Remember to include a snippet of how you will bring value and help us build a future of success that will help us determine where and how you may best be suited. Maybe you are just the future Mukurian we need!!

Should you be appointed in a remote/work from home role at Mukuru, it is your responsibility to ensure that you have uninterrupted internet connectivity and a ‘work-like’ environment at your home location, in order to deliver your best in terms of performance, productivity, and service to our customers.

If you do not receive any response after two weeks, please consider your application unsuccessful.

NB: ALL STAFF APPOINTMENTS WILL BE MADE WITH DUE CONSIDERATION OF THE COMPANY’S DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION PLANS.