Title: Senior DevOps Support Engineer
Description
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 and implement improvements for the current build and test and deployment systems (from development stage to production).
  • Perform support 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 project builds and releases when assistance is required – this is key to identifying areas of improvement.
  • Improve security along all phases of the SDLC including scanning for code quality and vulnerabilities.
  • Some afterhours work will be required from time to time.

Requirements:
Essential Minimum Requirements:

  • Matric
  • 6-8 years of experience as a DevOps engineer in a software development environment with cloud technologies, preferably Azure DevOps.
  • 6-8 years of experience in DevOps, Automation, Scripting and building CI/CD pipelines using on-premises and cloud technologies.
  • 3+ years of experience in Linux based operating systems.
  • 3+ years of experience in bash scripting.
  • 3+ years of docker experience.
  • 2+ year of experience with a provisioning tool like ansible, puppet or chef.
  • Solid understanding of networking.

Advantageous skills and experience:

  • B.Sc or B.Eng in Computer Science, or ND:IT .
  • Experience in working with Jenkins or other orchestrators.
  • Experience with docker, Kubernetes or OpenShift.
  • Experience in working with Git.
  • Experience in working with Cloud platforms (AWS or Azure).
  • Experience in working with XL-deploy.
  • Experience in working with Graphing/logging (Kibana, Grafana, Logstash, Elasticsearch).
  • Familiarity with Dev Sec Ops processes and practices.

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.

Desired Skills:

  • • Self-starter and self-motivated
  • • Flexible and good teamwork.
  • • Strong attention to detail.

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