Solutions Architect & DevOps Specialist (Permane

The Job Requirements

Deep knowledge and experience in software design, platform design and application operations.
Very good knowledge in recent IT base technology (Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, ElasticSearch, REST APIs)

Experience configuring and fine tuning large clusters.
Experience with Server to Server and Client to Server communication interfaces (REST, MQ, MQTT, PubSub)
Good IT base knowledge (Linux, XML, JSON, data modeling, handling large amounts of data)
2+ years of ElasticSearch experience in production, in medium to large clusters.
Good understanding of ElasticSearch concepts and terminology (i.e. aliases, partitioning, shards and replication)
Administration/Configuration/Management of ElasticSearch, Kibana, Web and Application Servers
Experience working in a DevOps team following agile methodologies and guidelines

Personal skills

Pioneering spirit in dealing with new technologies and abstraction
Communication and team skills
High commitment
Independent working attitude and self-directed learning skills
High issue solving skills and willingness

Qualification and Experience 

• Minimum NQF 7 – BSC/BCom/BTech in Information Technology
• Minimum 3 -5 Years’ experience in IT

Outputs

Close collaboration with the CoC members in architectural enhancements of the MO IoT Platform.
Enhancement of and integration in the overall end-to-end CI/CD process chain, bringing the platform to the "true North Star" level.
Packaging, Distribution, Operations and maintenance of key components within the
MO IoT Platform, such as, Elastic Search, Kibana, metricbeat, filebeat & Logstash.
Key contact for one of the major applications on the platform
Supporting the overall DevOps process chain with test automation (in Junit, Jmeter,…), configuration and deployment management (Jenkins/Bamboo, Ansible).
Participate in cluster preparation and migration for Elastic Search /Open search to Kubernetes environment.
Participate in team discussions and provide input regarding strategic team decisions.
Monitor, maintain, and enhance our Elastic Search instances in 10+ locations.
Collaborate and work with colleagues in different time zone

 

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