DevOps Engineer

BECOME PART OF THE TEAM THAT IS CHANGING THE WAY BUSINESSES ACROSS THE WORLD BUILD SOFTWARE. SOVTECH IS A CUSTOM SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT COMPANY WITH TEAMS BASED IN JOHANNESBURG, LONDON, AND CAPE TOWN.

We invest in people who can see the future & who work hard to achieve it. SovTech has a young, dynamic, and fast-growing team. We’re only looking for outstanding people – those unique individuals who are brilliant, are always happy to help, socialize, get involved, work hard, and enjoy what they do! We have a continuous learning culture that allows our people to grow and develop in the opportunities across our various teams.

About SovTech:

We design, build, deploy and maintain innovative custom software that allows our clients to start, run and grow world-class businesses. Our teams are globally distributed so we have adopted a Fluid approach to remote vs office-based work, encouraging freedom, fluidity of working location, collaboration & exploration. At SovTech, teams define their remote days to encourage collaboration & knowledge sharing whilst still creating the flexibility of remote working.

Our Company Values (The SovTech Spex):

#Smile #Adapt #Results #Tech #Innovate #Partnership #Sorted #Worldclass #Blitz #GiveASh*t

About the Role:

• Implement next-generation system architectures and automation solutions.
• Prototype new emerging technologies in order to complement new platform adoption recommendations
• Provide technical insight in various emerging technology areas i.e. (CI, CD, ContinuousTesting and Monitoring)
• Serve as a change agent providing assistance to teams within the organization on new innovative ways of working in order to further streamline the current execution lifecycle.
• Build highly automated development pipelines, with zero-touch deployments, allowing both developers and operations to deploy at free will.
• Continuously find new ways to improve flow across the SDLC (software development lifecycle) from source code strategies (like trunk-based development) to continuous integration and test automation practices.
• Create a centralized telemetry infrastructure spanning development (code commits, successful builds, unit testing, etc.), deployment pipelines (environment provisioning, functional test results, performance testing measurements, etc.) and user feedback (likeA/B testing).

What we are looking for:

• SovTech's Enterprise team is looking for a DevOps Engineer to work on a project with one of the big four banks.
• To play a technical role in the adoption of DevOps principles, incl. development, CI/CD, continuous testing and continuous feedback to support the delivery of disruptive driven Fintech solutions.

What Tech would you be working with?

• Cloud technologies in solving problems, namely Amazon WebServices, Azure, Google Cloud
• Java, Python, JavaScript, .NET, Ruby etc.

What we can tell you about our culture:

Have a look through our Careers page: Join Our Team, Help Build The Future. Become part of the team that is changing the way businesses across the world build software.

Our latest Blog posts: Visit our latest blog posts to gain insights, tips, news, articles, and tech updates

Humans of SovTech: Finally, if that does not give you enough insight into SovTech, check out our Humans of SovTech Instagram page

Job requirements

• Full-stack developer having built apps (personal or work-related) from the UI layer to service and database layers understanding how each layer interact with one another.
• Experience in using cloud technologies in solving problems, namely Amazon WebServices, Azure, Google Cloud etc.
• Demonstrating proficiency across a number of diverse languages, e.g. Java, Python, JavaScript, .NET, Ruby, etc.
• Showing an interest in emerging development languages, namely e.g. Scala, Golang, Rust, Lamda or Kotlin.
• Demonstrating an understanding of clustered application containerization technologies,e.g. Docker Swarm, Kubernetes, Mesos.
• Have implemented/understand big data analytics frameworks like ELK (Elasticsearch-Logstash-Kibana).
• Experience in building continuous feedback loops into value streams, using a number of technologies incl., Grafana and Elasticsearch, Prometheus, DataDog, AppDynamics, etc.
• Demonstrating an understanding of CI/CD with experience in one or more tools. These include tools like Jenkins, CircleCI, Bamboo, TFS, CDD, XL Deploy and Ansible.
• Maintain awareness of opportunities provided by new technology to address challenges or to enable new ways of working.