Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer

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Johannesburg, City of Johannesburg, Gauteng
In-Office
Marketing Tech
The Role
Company Description

At Jellyfish, we believe in the power of diverse perspectives and inclusive collaboration. We welcome individuals who excel in collaborative, varied teams and value the unique contributions that each person brings to the table.

Jellyfish is a global digital marketing agency; a unique fusion of tech enthusiasts, creative minds, and media and data experts all united to empower our clients along their digital journey. Our commitment to embracing diverse perspectives fuels our innovation and strategies that challenge the status quo, reinvent media activation, and craft influential stories for our global clients and their customers. Join us in shaping a future where business growth and personal fulfilment go hand in hand.

Job Description

Reporting to our Vice President of Engineering, you will join our growing Cloud Engineering team. This is an exciting opportunity to work at the forefront of web technologies, building, maintaining and scaling applications for our global clients.

You will work with modern infrastructure practices including serverless computing, containerisation, and orchestration frameworks, across platforms developed in PHP, NodeJS and Python. Many of these platforms are applying Generative AI capabilities, and you'll architect and optimise cloud infrastructure to support the latest solutions.

This is a role for a passionate technologist who is excited about shaping the future of cloud-native applications enhanced by AI.

Your primary responsibilities will include:

  • Review and oversee platform enhancements.
  • Complete implementations, working well both independently and as part of a team.
  • Govern our technologies to ensure security standards are met.
  • Work in a DevOps capacity with a desire to automate everything.
  • Scope and estimate technical web builds.
  • Conduct architectural reviews.
  • Develop CI Pipelines.
  • Practice Site Reliability Engineering concepts and design.
  • Manage large cloud projects for our clients across multiple countries.
  • Work with our developers to help share knowledge and improve the quality of practices.
  • Advise on new technologies to make sure Jellyfish's products are always evolving.

Qualifications

  • Excellent Cloud knowledge in AWS / Google Cloud.
  • Knowledge of Terraform or other IaC technologies.
  • An understanding of microservice and serveless architectures.
  • Proficient in Dockerising applications.
  • Knowledge of managing applications deployed to Kubernetes (EKS).
  • Helm/ArgoCD knowledge.
  • A focus on security and following best practices.
  • You embrace challenges as opportunities, and when faced with a problem you collaborate with the appropriate people to evaluate different options find practical solutions.

Note: We emphasise skills, expertise and behavioural attributes over years of experience and traditional degrees. If you want to join our collaborative team, we invite you to apply today with your resume in English.

Additional Information

Join Jellyfish and experience a workplace where we prioritise your growth, celebrate your contributions, and empower you to tailor your work environment to suit your needs.

💰 Reward: You'll be eligible to join our discretionary annual bonus scheme.

💫 Custom Work Environment: Choose whether to work from home or one of our 3 offices, and shape your day between 8am. and 6:30pm with flexible working hours.

📈 Growth, Your Way: Accumulate one paid day each month (2 hours per week) for self-development and unlimited access to Jellyfish Learn, our learning platform.

👪 Family Support: Enjoy 14 weeks of paid leave for primary caregivers and 4 weeks of paid leave for secondary caregivers. We also provide £1000 (or equivalent) towards courses for returning primary caregivers to support your transition back into work.

Unfortunately, there has been an increase in fake recruiters impersonating Jellyfish and unlawfully using our brand name. If you are unsure if an email with a job offer you have received is genuinely from Jellyfish, or if you suspect any fraudulent activity, please report it to [email protected].

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The Company
London
2,204 Employees
Year Founded: 2005

What We Do

Jellyfish is a new kind of marketing performance company for the platform world, where success demands a creative, multi-platform mindset. We help brands thrive, by navigating, connecting, and harnessing the platforms that drive growth. We’re more than the same logo over every door. Our unique global structure combines platform understanding with tech, media, creativity, and data expertise. We make amazing things happen at the pace the platforms demand. We’re proud to help shape the future of some of the world’s best brands - from ecommerce and CPG, to entertainment and gaming. Our unique, decade-long, multi-region Google partnership delivers across GMP, Cloud, and Training. We’re a Salesforce Consulting Partner, and one of the industry’s most extensively certified teams across Amazon. We can help you unlock your full potential across Meta technologies across the globe. Including training, creative, paid social, and analytics We know how important it is to find, develop, and deploy the best digital talent. So we’re equally passionate about giving our talent a platform to perform, which everyone can shape and make their own as they progress. From nurturing diverse new talent within our Jellyfish Academy, to investing in proprietary technology that can cast and connect the best teams, globally and seamlessly. If you want to find out more about our latest career opportunities - wherever you are in the world - do get in touch.

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