Job Purpose

DevOps engineer is responsible for the smooth operation of a company’s IT infrastructure. They work with developers to deploy and manage code changes, and with operations staff to ensure that systems are up and running smoothly. To be successful in this role, a DevOps engineer must have a deep understanding of both development and operations processes, as well as a strong technical background.

Job Responsibilities

  • Build a deep understanding of the business need in order to contribute to the ongoing value proposition. Understanding customer requirements and project KPIs
  • Implementing various development, testing, automation tools, and IT infrastructure
  • Planning the team structure, activities, and involvement in project management activities.
  • Managing stakeholders and external interfaces
  • Setting up tools and required infrastructure
  • Defining and setting development, test, release, update, and support processes for DevOps operation
  • Have the technical skill to review, verify, and validate the software code developed in the project.
  • Troubleshooting techniques and fixing the code bugs
  • Monitoring the processes during the entire lifecycle for its adherence and updating or creating new processes for improvement and minimizing the wastage
  • Lead migration of RHEL 4,5,6 to RHEL 7 and RHEL 7 to RHEL 8,9
  • Encouraging and building automated processes wherever possible
  • Identifying and deploying cybersecurity measures by continuously performing vulnerability assessment and risk management
  • Experience in AWS infrastructure as EC2/S3/VPC/ELB/IAM/Lambda/RDS/R53
  • Incidence management and root cause analysis
  • Coordination and communication within the team and with customers
  • Selecting and deploying appropriate CI/CD tools
  • Containerize application using docker and ensuring successful deployment on
  • Kubernetes
  • Using Terraform for automation infrastructure provisioning
  • Configuration and monitoring of Prometheus and Grafana
  • Strive for continuous improvement and build continuous integration, continuous development, and constant deployment pipeline (CI/CD Pipeline)
  • Mentoring and guiding the team members
  • Monitoring and measuring customer experience and KPIs
  • Managing periodic reporting on the progress to the management and the customer

Essential Qualifications – NQF Level

  • Advanced Diplomas/National Information Technology

Preferred Qualification

  • AWS and Redhat

Essential Certifications

  • RHCSA REDHAT
  • RHCE REDHAT
  • CKA Cloud Native Computing Foundation

Minimum Experience Level

  • 2 or more years in a Lead role
  • 6-8 years DevOps experience
  • JAVA Core
  • Kubernetes
  • Maven
  • Redhat

Technical / Professional Knowledge

  • Programming (OOP)
  • Linux
  • VMware
  • AWS
  • OCI
  • Kubernetes
  • DataDog,
  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • Nagios, Uptime
  • NewRelic,
  • ServiceNow
  • Jira

Behavioural Competencies

  • Adaptability
  • Decision Making
  • Emotional Intelligence Essentials
  • Technical/Professional Knowledge and Skills
  • Influencing
  • Quality Orientation
  • Planning and Organizing
  • High-Impact Communication

Desired Skills:

  • Programming
  • OOP
  • Linux
  • Vmware
  • AWS
  • OCI
  • Kubernetes
  • Datadog
  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • Nagios
  • Uptime
  • NewRelic
  • ServiceNow
  • Jira
  • JavaCORE
  • Java Core
  • Maven
  • Redhat
  • Information Technology

Desired Work Experience:

  • 2 to 5 years Banking
  • 5 to 10 years Software Development

Desired Qualification Level:

  • Degree

About The Employer:

Client is based in the financial services sector.

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