Site Reliability Engineer

SITE RELIABILITY ENGINEER (AWS/Linux)

SA Hybrid/Remote

Salary: R85k-R105k per month dependent on experience

As a Site Reliability Engineer for a leading EU Airline, you will play a critical role in ensuring the reliability, availability and performance of our Customer's systems and applications. You will work closely with our development and operations teams to implement effective standards, methodologies and processes, guiding continuous improvement and innovation.

Required Skills:

Proven experience as a Site Reliability Engineer

A demonstrated ability to debug, fix, and optimise code

Troubleshooting skills that span applications, networking (TCP/IP), and systems

Robust working knowledge of Linux and containers

Solid knowledge of software development and system administration principles

Knowledge of monitoring and observability tools

Good knowledge of AWS infrastructure

Knowledge of scalability and availability, performance tuning, infrastructure and reliability for pipeline

Key responsibilities & duties include:

Create clear standards, methods, and processes. Lead improvements by making changes when necessary

Drive incident management and post-mortem analysis

Review architecture decisions and recommend process improvements

Create and grow innovative, high-quality tools to address real operational challenges within our systems and processes

Continual knowledge transfer, training and mentoring of junior staff is also expected

Gather and analyse metrics from operating systems as well as applications to assist in performance tuning and fault finding

Partner with development teams to improve services through rigorous testing and release procedures

Participate in system design consulting, platform management and capacity planning

Create sustainable systems and services through automation and uplifts

Balance feature development momentum and reliability with well-defined service-level

Pay: R85 000,00 - R105 000,00 per month

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Cape Town, Western Cape