Blue Pearl HQ

Site Reliability Engineer

Blue Pearl HQ  •  Johannesburg, ZA (Hybrid)  •  2 months ago
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Job Description


We are seeking
an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to support and enhance hybrid AWS
cloud environments, preferably within PCI-DSS compliant financial services
environments. The successful candidate will play a key role in infrastructure
automation, CI/CD implementation, observability, reliability engineering, and
platform engineering practices across the organization.


What you'll
do:


  • Hands on
    work experience in a hybrid (AWS) cloud environment, preferably in the
    financial sector with PCI-DSS compliant systems.

  • Implementing
    CI/CD pipeline automation across functional areas.

  • AWS
    workload automation (provisioning infrastructure and custom software
    configuration rollout).

  • Implementing
    Observability for hybrid cloud-based environments.

  • Strong
    understanding of networking principles and protocols.

  • Troubleshooting
    low latency & Java based applications in a SRE (Site Reliability
    Engineering) context.

  • Familiarity/applying
    Platform Engineering principles and practices.

  • Understanding
    of the AWS Well-Architected Framework and practices.


Requirements


Your
expertise:


  • Must have
    at least 8 years hands-on experience in a DevOps role within a hybrid AWS
    cloud environment

  • Experience
    in PCI-DSS compliant systems (preferably within the financial sector)

  • Strong
    understanding of networking principles and protocols

  • Experience implementing CI/CD automation pipelines

  • Experience
    with workload automation and infrastructure provisioning

  • Experience
    implementing observability in cloud and hybrid environments

  • Experience
    troubleshooting low-latency and Java-based applications

  • Practical
    application of Platform Engineering principles

  • Strong
    understanding of AWS Well-Architected Framework


Technology and
Tooling:


Essential:


  • AWS
    Services: EC2, RDS (Postgres & Oracle EE), EBS, EKS, ECS, Load
    Balancing, Secrets Manager, KMS, Service Catalog

  • AWS CDK

  • Observability
    tooling: AWS CloudWatch, Splunk / AppDynamics, ELK

  • CI/CD
    platforms (e.g., Harness, Azure DevOps, GitLab or equivalent)

  • Operating
    Systems: Linux and Windows Server


Preferred:


  • Python
    scripting

  • AWS
    CloudFormation

  • Ansible

  • Bash
    scripting


Optional:


  • Zabbix
    monitoring

  • Keycloak

  • ActiveMQ

  • WebLogic
    14c

  • Nginx


Certifications:
(Beneficial)


  • AWS
    Certified SysOps Administrator (CloudOps Engineer)

  • AWS
    Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
Blue Pearl HQ

About Blue Pearl HQ

Blue Pearl is a market-leading CLOUD Solutions developer with extensive knowledge and insight into the latest technologies, standardised processes, advanced technical capabilities and consulting processes available, ensuring wholistic success for our clientele. We offer professional consulting to compliment your business strategy and overall management and make it our priority to add value to any business by listening, analysing and creating a conducive solution that will empower our client.

We implement a Data Analysis Process that includes inspecting, cleansing, transforming, and modelling data with the end-goal of discovering useful information, informing conclusions, and relevant information to support your decision-making. Your business cannot afford not to engage with us, allowing our data analysis to play a role in making your business decisions more scientific and helping your business achieve effective operation.

Blue Pearl’s team of experts include BI strategists, BI analysts, Data Warehouse Architects, Data Scientists, Implementation and Development experts. With the use of BI, Analytics and Big Data, we effectively partner with our customers on their mission to achieve a competitive business advantage and real ROI from the structured information we collect.

Industry
IT & Software
Company Size
11-50 employees
Headquarters
Johannesburg, ZA
Year Founded
2013
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