Senior Platform Engineer (Full-time/ Part-time) | Immediate Hiring

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Job title: Senior Platform Engineer

Company: Six Sense Consulting

Job description: A well-established business is seeking to appoint a Senior Platform EngineerQualifications:

  • BTech/ Degree/ Masters/ PHD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related fields

Experience:

  • BTech coupled with 13 years relevant working experience or Degree coupled with 9 years relevant working experience or Masters coupled with 7 years relevant working experience
  • or PHD coupled with 5 years relevant working experience in software engineering, large scale computing, high performance computing, private cloud and virtual computing (e.g. OpenStack, Kubernetes)
  • Experience with systems administration, provisioning of MAAS, preferably using Linux and open source tools (such as Docker, Helm,Ansible)
  • Proficiency with one or more Continuous Integration and automated test execution tools (Jenkins, GoCD, Gitlab, Travis-CI).

Knowledge:

  • Proficient in C++ and Python programming languages.
  • Experienced in administering application servers, web servers and databases.
  • Experienced in integrated security practices such as secrets management into the DevOps pipelines, SSO, platform and application hardening.
  • Have some experience of line management.
  • Systems Engineering processes.
  • Willingness to transition between system development, roll-out and system support and operations

Essential Competency:

  • Experience in using infrastructure provisioning tools (such as Docker, Helm, Ansible, Terraform) in a cloud environment or in a virtualized environment (AWS, OpenStack, GCP).
  • Working knowledge of the git distributed version control system and related best practices.
  • Proficiency with one or more Continuous Integration and automated test execution tools (Jenkins, GoCD, Gitlab, Travis-CI).
  • Demonstrated understanding and enthusiasm for team based working based on lean/agile principles.
  • Ethernet network technologies and management of switches and routers.
  • Linux operating system and standard tools.

Please note that if you have not received a response within 14 days of submitting your application that your application was unsuccessful.
However, please keep a lookout on our website, www.sixsense.co.za for available positions which may be inline with your career aspirations.

Expected salary:

Location: Cape Town, Western Cape

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