DevOps Engineer (Advanced) 2432

SUMMARY:
DevOps Engineer with 3+ years in DevOps Engineering Experience, with at least 6 years in the IT Industry, contract end date December 2027 (Gauteng based only) hybrid.

POSITION INFO:
What will be your role and responsibilities?
- Conduct with the feature team members, system analysis, design, development and testing for their assigned technical products or applications within the context of an agile/DevOps delivery model. Focusing of the automation of environments, infrastructure, build and deployment pipelines.
- Maintain, build, and setup new development tools and infrastructure for both on premise and cloud platforms.
- Automate the management of infrastructure patches and maintenance.
- Work on ways to automate and improve development and release processes.
- Work with Software Developers and Software Engineers to build disposable test environment and automated testing.
- Work with Software Developers and Software Engineers to ensure that systems are safe and secure against Cybersecurity threats.
- Work with Software Developers and Software Engineers to ensure that development follows established processes and works as intended.
- Improve integration of code between teams.
- Provide middleware support and configuration management for application dependant software i.e., Webservers, Java app servers, MQ brokers/servers etc.
- Build tools to reduce occurrences of errors and improve Developer and customer experience.
- Create and maintain automated deployment pipelines to maintain quality control and deployment agility.
- Prepare and document standard operating procedures and protocols as well as required system documentation.
- Develop scripts/monitoring to analyse and visualise important metrics about development processes.
- Develop scripts/monitoring to analyse and visualise important metrics about reliability and availability.
- Support operational excellence goals through strong operations knowledge. Resolve escalated support topics as part of tier-2/3 DevOps role to ensure the highest availability of critical applications.
- Plan and execute upgrade of existing applications, tools, and features.
- Create solutions and solve problems using a cloud-native and on premises toolchain, to ensure world-class uptime and business agility.
- Plan and execute upgrade of existing applications, tools, and features. Create solutions and solve problems using a cloud-native toolchain, to ensure world-class uptime and business agility.

Essential skills requirements:
- Operating Systems: Strong skills in Linux, CRON and Unix Filesystems
- Java Appserver: Glassfish, Glassfish Micro, Quarkus
- Webserver: Apache, Nginx
- Languages: Scripting in Batch and Shell, Java, PLSQL
- CI/CD: Version Control, Build and Deployment Pipelines (Maven, GIT, Jenkins,Bitbucket, Sonar, Jira, GitHub, GitHub Actions, Container registries)
- Infrastructure: Familiar with Cloud - AWS or AZURE
- Interface Technologies: MQ
- Infrastructure as Code: Terraform or Ansible or Cloud formation.
- Security: Management of Keys, Certificates and Secrets
- Monitoring: AppDynamics, Dynatrace, Grafana
- Log Management Alerting: ELK Stack or Splunk, Nagios, Kabana
- Operations, Incident-Problem management: ITSM Suite / BMC Remedy or ServiceNow

Frameworks:
- Front End: JavaServer Faces, Apache Struts
- Back End: Jakarta EE, PLSQL
- Anya dditional responsibilities assigned in the Agile Working Model (AWM) Charter

Advantageous skills requirements:
- Scheduling: e.g., ControlM, AWS Batch, Informatica ETL.
- Containers: Docker, Kubernetes
- Databases: (Oracle, PostgreSQL, PLSQL etc)
- Java Frameworks/Development
- Languages: Python,PySpark,Javascript
- Security: Certification/Skills, AST (Static, interactive, and dynamic)

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