Cloud Engineer

About Electrum

Electrum is the next-generation payments technology company that provides cloud-native software to optimise the processing of financial transactions. Since 2012, we have established ourselves as a respected payments technology partner through our deep expertise and track record in delivering trusted enterprise-grade payments solutions.

We’ve built a reputation in providing solutions for high-volume, low-value payment schemes and services that enable our clients to deliver to their customers at scale. We love that the projects we work on touch the lives of millions of South Africans daily, making a real difference.

We hire the best of the best and we offer great opportunities for personal growth and career progression.

The Role

As a Cloud Engineer, you'll be responsible for provisioning and maintaining Electrum’s most mission critical cloud-based production systems. This will involve working closely with Engineering teams to ensure that the technical requirements for moving projects into production are met, as well as ensuring monitoring and alerting feedback loops of critical infrastructure is constantly improved.

You understand that failure is unavoidable, and will help to constantly improve Electrum’s incident response handling. You'll also be involved in project management activities such as ensuring deadlines are met and end user expectations are maintained. Your role may involve working with third party vendors on technology solutions or providing support during customer implementations of new software products or applications.

This is a fast moving industry and we know that you will need to keep yourself up-to-date with new advances in technologies and to stay relevant with required certifications : you will have access to a generous training and education allowance dedicated to furthering your skill sets. You will also have the opportunity to gain deep knowledge of payments technology along with further developing your service delivery and cloud technology expertise.

Responsibilities

• Deployment, automation, management, and maintenance of AWS cloud-based production systems.
• Ensuring availability, performance, security, and scalability of AWS production systems.
• Managing and administrating Linux environments.
• Evaluation of new technology alternatives and vendor products.
• System troubleshooting and problem resolution across the cloud infrastructure stack.
• Provision of critical system security by leveraging best practices and prolific cloud security solutions.
• Providing recommendations for architecture and process improvements.
• Implementation of security protocols by evaluating business strategies and requirements.
• Maintenance and management of tools for automation of different operational processes.
• Definition, deployment and management of metrics, logging, monitoring and alerting.
• Updating job knowledge by tracking and understanding emerging practices and standards; participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications and participating in professional organisations.

Requirements

Benefits

A good work-life balance is very important at Electrum. To help you manage your own time and energy, Electrum offers benefits such as :

We have created a safe, transparent environment where we know mistakes happen, and that’s okay. We even have a 3 step approach to dealing with them :

You are responsible for your actions – both the successes and the failures.