DevOps Engineer

Summary

Join GoCanvas as a DevOps Engineer in South Africa and help build a pervasive DevOps culture. You will automate and secure CI/CD pipelines, mature IaC, and ensure reliable solutions for our customers. This role involves building IaC pipelines using Terraform or CloudFormation, improving reliability in our Kubernetes and AWS architecture, and empowering developers for faster, quality product delivery. You'll receive training on our product and gain experience scaling a SaaS company. We are looking for A-players who share our values and are passionate about our mission.

Requirements

• 3-5 years of experience in a DevOps, SRE or Platform engineering role covering build/release/deployment automation and support
• 3-5 years of experience working in an AWS environment
• An “automate everything” attitude; a passion for removing toil and cumbersome manual processes
• Experience working with Docker or other containerization technologies
• Experience with system hardening in Linux and Docker environments
• Experience with Kubernetes/EKS and its ecosystem, e.g. Ingress controllers, Helm Prometheus, and Grafana
• Experience working in an agile/lean software development team
• Experience with modern CI/CD tools, GitHub Actions preferred
• Experience designing, building and maintaining infrastructure and environments with Infrastructure as Code using tools like Terraform or CloudFormation
• Familiarity with scripting technologies such as Ruby, Python, Shell, or Bash and comfort on the command line of Linux or Mac environments
• Familiarity with modern web servers and middleware, e.g. AWS ALB, nginx, HAProxy, Phusion Passenger
• Familiarity with data stores, e.g. MySQL (RDS/Aurora), Redis, ElasticSearch, DocumentDB/MongoDB, S3
• Familiarity with monitoring and APM tools such as Datadog, New Relic, AppDynamics, or Prometheus
• Familiarity with with log aggregation and inspection tools such as CloudWatch Logs, Athena, Splunk, or ELK
• A passion for creating amazing products with great engineering teams
• Strong self-organization and self-management skills
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Desire to be a part of a team that’s just as passionate as you

Responsibilities

• Build Infrastructure as Code (IaC) pipelines using Terraform or CloudFormation to manage and automate GoCanvas infrastructure in multiple production environments, including launching new regional deployments
• Make reliability improvements to our highly available cloud architecture based in Kubernetes and Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Grow an existing continuous integration (CI) platform leveraging tools to help our engineering teams deliver high-quality and secure software
• Empower developers to quickly deliver quality products to our customers, moving toward continuous delivery (CD)
• Mature our operations through more robust alerting, monitoring, and logging
• Work with the engineering team to continue to provide 99.5%+ reliability
• Maintain an effective CI/CD pipeline that allows us to scale into additional regions
• Contribute to the delivery of high-quality, secure products
• Stay on top of industry trends and contribute creative solutions to the team’s problems
• Build effective working relationships and display effective communication with teams

Preferred Qualifications

• Cloud certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect -- Associate, AWS Certified SysOps Administrator -- Associate
• Kubernetes certifications such as Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)
• Familiarity with modern software development technologies such as Ruby, Python, JavaScript, Java, or others from a deployment perspective

Benefits

• Competitive Compensation
• Medical plan
• EAP Program
• Remote working flexibility
• 3 days Family Responsibility Leave
• 12 Days Sick Leave
• 15 Days’ Vacation Leave
• 13 Company-Paid Holidays