Purpose of the Position:
Our client is looking for someone to join the DevOps team to help automate and support the tools and processes relating to continuous delivery/integration/deployment, test-driven development, and agile best?practices. This role places a heavy emphasis on both maintaining and improving a complex continuous integration and release solution and providing support to a large team of developers and testers involved in our complex, multi?project, Java?based product suite and projects.
Responsibilities/Tasks:
- Design, development, implementation, migration and support of a comprehensive build and release management process and technical solution to support the development processes, using existing tools as a starting point, but building on the same or other open source, and possibly commercial tools, moving forward.
- Support the adoption of Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration, Test-Driven Development, and Agile best practices, processes, and tools.
- Design and develop features for build and test and deployment systems (from development stage to production).
- Perform support and maintenance and troubleshooting of the various development tools / systems.
- Ensure the uptime and availability and performance of all components of the solution.
- Support program and project specific requirements that may arise.
- Perform system build and release when assistance is required this is key to identifying areas of improvement.
- Scan, monitor and alert all security vulnerabilities in our developed code
- Mitigate security vulnerabilities tin the Development environment
- Perform Database related task ie Installation , monitoring, tuning, Data migration etc
- Some afterhours work will be required from time to time.
Essential Minimum Requirements
- Sc or B.Eng in Computer Science, or ND:IT or relevant work experience
- 3+ years of experience in an enterprise IT development environment
- 2+ years of experience in DevOps Automation, Scripting, building CI/CD pipelines
- 2+ years of experience in Linux based operating systems
- 2+ years of experience in bash scripting
- 1+ year of experience with a provisioning tool like ansible, puppet or chef
- Solid understanding of networking
At least one of the following
- 3+ years of experience using IBM WebSphere and WSADMIN scripting
Or
- 3+ years of experience in the role of a DB2 DBA
Or
- Experience in the role of DevSecOps
- 1+ year of experience in cybercrime countermeasures and cyber security assessments
- 1+ years of experience in firewalling/security
- 1+ years of experience in code scanning for security vulnerabilities
- 1+ years of experience in software security tools like Sonar, Fisheye, Nexus Lifecycle
- 2+ years of experience working with an artifact repository like Nexus or Artifactory
Advantageous skills and experience
- Experience in working with Jenkins
- Experience in working with Git
- Experience in working with Jira/bitbucket/confluence
- Experience in working with Docker
- Experience in working with Cloud platforms (AWS or Azure)
- Experience in working with XL-deploy
- Experience in working with Graphing/logging (Kibana, grafana, logstash)
Personal Profile
- Self-starter and self-motivated
- Successful track record as a technical professional who is resourceful and innovative
- Flexible and good teamwork
- Strong attention to detail
- Results-oriented
If this sounds like you, apply!
About The Employer:
Our client is a Global Technology Solutions Provider. Their core business focusses on the Customs and Border Management business sphere. Their solutions are proven to spur economic growth and facilitate trade, whilst mitigating risk to the borders of South Africa. The world changes daily and Customs agencies are defined by those changes, be it shifting trade and travel trends, to complex economic, social and political realities in our interconnected world.
Our client ensures that they stay on top of those trends and changes, whilst constantly re-focusing and customizing their large-scale smart software solutions.