At Sixty60, we are on a mission to revolutionise grocery delivery in South Africa. As the largest grocery delivery platform in the country, we are committed to providing fast, reliable, and convenient service to our customers. We believe that ensuring the reliability and scalability of our technology is essential to achieving this goal. That's where you come in.About Us:Sixty60 is South Africa's leading grocery delivery platform, serving millions of customers across the nation. Our application software team is at the heart of our operation, creating mission-critical applications that drive our delivery service and empower us to connect communities with the groceries they need. We are looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer to join our dynamic team and play a pivotal role in maintaining and scaling our custom-built, mission-critical software products.Join us at Sixty60 and be part of a team that is reshaping the grocery delivery landscape in South Africa using a modern and innovative tech stack. Your contributions as a DevOps Engineer will directly impact our mission to provide fast, reliable, and convenient grocery delivery to millions of customers. Come be a part of our exciting journey towards making grocery shopping easier for everyone.Tech Stack: At Sixty60, we pride ourselves on using a cutting-edge tech stack that includes Kubernetes, Istio, Golang, Argo, AWS, Prometheus and Grafana. This modern technology foundation enables us to deliver a seamless and efficient grocery delivery experience to our customers.Responsibilities:• Deploy, upgrade, operate, and scale our suite of mission-critical products and services.• Manage our underlying infrastructure using modern observability tools to ensure application health.• Manage AWS cloud infrastructure to support our applications.• Setup CI/CD pipelines to streamline software delivery.• Collaborate closely with software engineers to create highly operable and maintainable products.• Engage in and enhance the entire software development lifecycle, from inception and design to deployment, operation, and refinement.• Implement best practices for Kubernetes, Istio, Golang, and AWS to optimize system performance and reliability.• Execute Argo canary deployments to ensure seamless feature rollouts and updates.• Practice sustainable incident response and conduct blameless postmortems.• Provide end-user support to our engineering team for product-related inquiries.• Participate in the team's on-call rotation as needed.• Focus on identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks and implementing performance improvement techniques.Basic Qualifications:• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, or an engineering discipline; OR 2+ years of professional experience in site reliability or DevOps.• Proficiency with Linux operating systems.Skills and Experience:• 3+ years of experience in DevOps, site reliability engineering, or system administration.• 3+ years of experience in Cloud Computing AWS preferred• Familiarity with source code and version control tools such as Git or Subversion.• Experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) products for automated server management.• Knowledge of build systems and package management tools.• Experience with container and virtualization technologies like Kubernetes.• Familiarity with automation frameworks like Terraform, Ansible, or Puppet.• Understanding of TCP/IP networking.• Experience with databases and data modeling.• Proficiency with workflow and issue management tools such as JIRA.• Ability to work with mission-critical systems and respond with appropriate urgency.• Effective communication skills for both formal and informal interactions.Our Group and all its operating companies is committed to creating, embracing, and preserving a diverse workplace that values the unique talents, perspectives, backgrounds, and abilities that enrich our organisation. A place where everyone matters and feels included.We are committed to Employment Equity when recruiting internally and externally.Please take note that by responding to this application and providing your personal information, you confirm your express and informed consent for Shoprite Checkers (Pty) Ltd and all its subsidiaries and affiliates companies to process your personal information for the Company to consider your application for this position. All Personal Information which you provide to the Company will be used and/or retained only for the purposes for which it is collected, whereafter it will be permanently destroyed. Your information is only retained if it is required by law or where you have given consent to us to retain such information for an extended period.If you don’t hear from us within 14 days, please consider your application unsuccessful. Any personal information collected as part of your application will be destroyed, securely, in accordance with South African legislation.#J-18808-Ljbffr