Senior Platform Engineer (Terraform, Docker, AWS) - Remote

Overview

Ringier South Africa is a technology company supporting international marketplaces. We build and maintain the tech for Classifieds Marketplaces across the world. Our platforms attract millions of views per month and are market leaders in their respective countries. We aim to solve all of the technical requirements for running a highly scalable, highly available marketplace business. It does this while still giving local customizations for different countries and continuously improving from what we’ve learned in other markets.

In Short

• Your mission will be to build and maintain vertical independent infrastructure, development pipelines and software services and set group-wide platform engineering standards.
• Assist in Research, P.O.C and implementation of new technologies or services to be adopted by the entire Group.
• Configuration and management of various servers/instances via Docker, Terraform and Ansible.
• Write scripts and automation using Bash/Python/Groovy.
• Reviewing and approving the work of your peers as part of the software development process.
• Maintaining our Cloud Infrastructure primarily on AWS.
• Maintaining the reliability of our CI/CD.
• Build independent web-based tools and microservices to help dev workflows.
• Planning and Implementation of backup scenarios, log-rotations and overall scaling concepts for large datasets.
• Deliver software and projects according to agreed timelines.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or relevant work experience
• At least 5 years in active Development roles
• Experience with most of the technology used, but specifically Terraform and Docker.
• Have strong operational experience with AWS, Linux and MySQL.
• Professional, Self-motivated attitude. We’re a relaxed office.
• Proficient in written and oral English communication.
• Eager to learn, open to constructive criticism and willing to be a team player in delivering the best solutions possible.
• Be comfortable working in an agile and fast-paced environment.
• Seasoned communicator, proficient in technical and business/ functional aspects of the software development process.
• Team player and willing to go beyond the call of duty when the need arises.

Benefits

• We are fully remote! Work from anywhere in the world within a 3 hour SAST timezone
• We have co-working spaces in Cape Town, Mauritius, Kenya & Nigeria
• A cutting-edge development stack is waiting for your code contribution
• You will be working with over 80+ highly skilled technical minds (and expanding)
• Backing of the international media powerhouse Ringier AG, which allows us to access world-class development resources, shared knowledge, and a wealth of international business insights
• Our teams work with a wide range of tech stacks
• We are committed to the future growth prospects of our employees by allowing autonomy, flexibility and an opportunity to master your respective skill