Cape Town: Principal Site Reliability Engineer (CPT Hybrid) posted by Datafin
Job Description
Cape Town – Western Cape – South Africa
- 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 stability, scalability, security, cost-effectiveness, and operational excellence of 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.
- 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 CI/CD pipelines.
- Familiarity with relational and non-relational databases.
- Solid understanding of Linux operating systems.
- Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills.
- 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.
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