Role Overview
We are looking for an experienced Principal Site Reliability Engineer to join our Professional Services team and deliver Software and DevSecOps projects. You will report to a Site Reliability Engineering Manager. As a Principal Site Reliability Engineer you will be expected to fill the role of a technical lead on multiple projects simultaneously, representing the senior technical leadership within our organisation.
SRE / DevOps is one of our core competencies. You will be part of a highly-skilled team that continuously innovates and delivers high value solutions to clients across various industries on all public clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc). Technologies we work with daily include Kuberenetes, Helm, Terraform, GitOps, OPA, Calico, Linkerd, just to name a few.
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
Assist engineering managers with building career paths for individuals wishing to be promoted to Principal Engineers
Teach, mentor, grow, and provide advice to other domain experts, individual contributors, and across several teams.
Document processes and monitor performance metrics
Guide conversations to remove blockers and encourage collaboration across teams.
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
Provide technical leadership on multiple projects.
What you must have
At least 7 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
Qualities & Behaviours
Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills
A zest for automation
Comfortable working as a remote team member and leader
Ability to keep up to date with DevOps/SRE best practices, trends and innovation
Passionate about mentoring and growing technical skills within the team
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, Kenya, Nigeria and Ghana.
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.
Want to know what you get by joining us?
Become a member of a team where we value each individual’s contribution from day 1 and empower you to make suggestions, get involved and do what you love most!
Flexibility and the freedom to work remotely.
Work-life balance where you are not expected to work over weekends or after hours.
A forward thinking remote company that knows how important it is to stay connected as one team, by providing virtual social platforms for employee engagement.
A monthly work from home allowance which you can use to set yourself up to work comfortably from home. Whether that is pens, notebooks, new headphones or work snacks!
A MacBook or Windows laptop for you to do your best work on.
Become part of a team of exceptionally clever and talented people who like to share their knowledge and learnings.
We support your career growth and love to celebrate your successes and advancement!
Apply via :
deimoscloud.bamboohr.com