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    "description": "<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Deimos is a Cloud-native Developer and Security Operations technology services company.  We help companies of all sizes adopt the Cloud for improved service delivery to their clients. We’re a fully remote African-based team of engineers who are passionate about implementing engineering best practices. We leverage the latest technologies while building globally competitive solutions for our clients. With Deimos being one of the two moons of Mars, we refer to ourselves as “Martians” who are on a mission to Mars, together. </span></p>\n<p><br><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Our teams value the ability to learn and adapt to technology changes while appreciating solid foundational design and the craft of software engineering. As such our engineers enjoy working with various clients who have different problems to solve. 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You will be part of a highly-skilled team that continuously innovates and delivers high value solutions to clients across various industries on all public clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc). Technologies we work with daily include Kuberenetes, Helm, Terraform, GitOps, OPA, Calico, Linkerd, just to name a few.</span><br></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold\">What you will be doing</span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: 300\">Design and build advanced cloud-native infrastructure</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: 300\">Guide technical discussions with clients and build technical roadmaps </span></li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: 300\">Collaborate with the Engineering Director(s) to (re)design architecture</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: 300\">Assist the Site Reliability Manager with resource planning</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; 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