DevOps Engineer

Recruiter:

A 1L Realization (Pty) Ltd

Job Ref:

JHB000263/VB

Date posted:

Thursday, August 4, 2022

Location:

Midrand, South Africa

JOB SUMMARY:
Our client in the Telecommunications sector requires a DevOps Engineer for a 7 months contract, with a possibility of renewal.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

The DevOps Engineer is responsible for delivering, maintaining, and optimizing infrastructure, database, and middleware capabilities to support and enable the development and operations of applications and solutions. This role is also responsible for reviewing solution designs, understanding their impact on application/infrastructure, building, and implementing infrastructure and applications, and monitoring, maintaining, and supporting the operational environments.
In addition, the candidate in this role is responsible for providing technical expertise to team members and other technical/business areas.

Key Responsibilities will include:

Ensuring availability, performance, sustainability, and accessibility of application systems/services.
Managing and ensuring SLAs and KPIs of services are maintained.
Ensuring necessary operational controls and governance are in place and policies to ensure alignment.
Managing and overseeing the service transition process of services into the production environment.
Ensuring non-functional requirements are implemented with all features and user stories.
Monitor and maintain infrastructure performance, capacity, and availability, providing 2nd and 3rd level support for the resolution of application and infrastructure-related incidents and problems.
Managing and remediating on security threats and vulnerabilities, and applying all required security controls in accordance with policy.
Ensuring effective monitoring of services and applications.
Identification and mitigation of risks for services in production.
Executing and managing operational projects to ensure delivery as per agreed timelines and scope.
Coordinating and executing of releases into production environments.
Acting as technical authority, providing input and guidance into technical solutions and implementations.
Troubleshooting and resolving incidents and defects within service SLAs.

Core competencies, knowledge and experience:

Agile methodologies and techniques used in development of software
Strong knowledge of Incident and problem management processes
Experience in effective troubleshooting techniques
Experience in managing and deploying .NET and java applications
Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery methodologies, techniques and tools
DevOps culture – applying relevant processes, practices and tools
Cloud-native architectures, including public cloud PaaS / IaaS, micro-services architectures, APIs
Strong problem solving skills and ability to adapt to new methods and processes
Strong relationship building, persuasion, and collaboration skills that drives internal-and cross-team constructive feedback and support
Understanding of both the Telecommunications and Fintech services markets and technology trends
Experience in monitoring technologies and APM tools
Experience in managing and maintaining HA solutions, and managing DRP environments
Financial Services domain knowledge and experience
Ability to lead and mentor team members
Knowledge of AWS services - experience in building, managing and supporting AWS-based solutions and AWS native technologies
Familiarity with agile software development in Go, C/C++, Java, JavaScript
Familiarity with container orchestration services, especially Kubernetes
Experience administering and deploying development CI/CD tools such as Git, Jira, GitLab, or Jenkins
Significant experience with Windows and Linux operating system environments
Experience with infrastructure scripting solutions such as PowerShell or Python.

The ideal candidate for this role will have:

Min 5 years’ experience in a similar role
Min 5 years’ relevant experience in developing, deploying and / or administering infrastructure solutions
Experience of current and emerging virtualization, infrastructure, cloud and containerization technologies such as AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, etc.
Min 3 years’ experience in scripting(automation) and configuration management using tools such as Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Salt etc.
Min 3 years’ experience building, managing and supporting AWS-based solutions and AWS native technologies
Min 3 years’ experience working with programming and scripting languages, such as Ruby and Python or PHP
Knowledge and experience of Web services, SOAP and RESTful interfaces, and XML
Experience working closely with agile methodologies, such as Scrum, XP, and with teams leveraging DevOps and Continuous Delivery / Integration
Strong understanding and working knowledge of IT management best practice frameworks, such as ITIL and COBIT
Strong knowledge of automation frameworks and tools
Strong knowledge and experience on AWS (Certification preferred)
Financial Services and Telecommunications domain knowledge preferred
Min 5 years’ experience in database technologies - RDBMS, e.g. MSSQL, PostGreSQL, Oracle, MySQL, etc
Min 5 years’ experience and knowledge of IP networks and related solutions
Excellent problem solving ability in complex environments.

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