DevOps Engineer

Oracle - Cape Town, Province of the Western Cape

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Contract

Contract type
Permanent
Application deadline
31/03/2020

Description

Position
DevOps Engineer
Vacancies
1
Description

Description

SHIFT: Day Job



SCHEDULE:



Design, develop, troubleshoot and debug software programs for databases, applications, tools, networks etc.



As a member of the software engineering division, you will take an active role in the definition and evolution of standard practices and procedures. You will be responsible for defining and developing software for tasks associated with the developing, designing and debugging of software applications or operating systems.



Work is non-routine and very complex, involving the application of advanced technical/business skills in area of specialization. Leading contributor individually and as a team member, providing direction and mentoring to others. BS or MS degree or equivalent experience relevant to functional area. 7 years of software engineering or related experience.



As part of Oracle's employment process candidates will be required to successfully complete a pre-employment screening process. This will involve identity and employment verification, professional references, education verification and professional qualifications and memberships (if applicable).

Qualifications



Position Overview



We are looking for a highly self-motivated and experienced devops


engineer to join our development team to work on our Oracle Cloud


offerings. We offer a chance to take


part in the development of leading-edge products, in a skill-enhancing


environment working with a diverse and distributed team of motivated members, a


high level of impact on the product, recognition of achievements, competitive


salary and benefits.



Responsibilities

  • Design and develop cloud based OS


    management tools.

  • Enable and enhance Oracle Linux cloud


    integrations.

  • Integrate with existing cloud systems to


    create a fully featured OS management service.

  • Develop automated tests for all features.

  • Participate in frequent design and code


    reviews.

  • Proactively suggest and implement service


    improvements.

  • Participate in the active and direct


    support of the service.

Qualifications



Although not definitive, the ideal candidate will typically have the


following:

  • BS/MS degree in CS, EE, or equivalent

  • 4+ years of software development/system


    programming experience

  • Strong experience with the following:

◦ Kubernetes


and container orchestration technologies



◦ Linux


and Virtualization (systemd, package management, kvm, etc)



◦ CI/CD


best practices (Jenkins, Teamcity, Git)



◦ Configuration


management and systems orchestration (any of Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Terraform)



◦ Monitoring


and logging (Grafana, ELK, fluentd, etc)



◦ Operational


excellence (customer centric mindset, high availability, troubleshooting,


canary deploys, etc)

  • Experience with micro-services


    based software architecture

  • Experience with cloud environments


    a plus (AWS, Azure, OpenStack)

  • Solid scripting background (Python, Bash,


    or similar)

  • Knowledge of professional software


    engineering practices & best practices for full software development


    life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control


    management, build processes, testing and operations

  • Comfortable with Agile Software


    Development practices (e.g. Scrum, CI/CD, Slack, etc.)

Personal Abilities

  • Ability


    to solve complex problems, providing hands-on resolution

  • Critical thinking and


    decision making skills

  • Excellent


    communication in English (both written and spoken)

  • Results orientated, an


    ability to manage multiple priorities is also expected

  • Highly


    organized and detail oriented

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Requirements

Min education
University attendance
Required experience
7 Years
Nationality
Not defined
Languages
Not defined
Specializations
Skills
Not defined
Prerequisites

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Company

Employer name

Oracle

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