DevOps Lead Engineer

SUMMARY:
An exciting position is available for an experienced DevOps Lead Engineer for a financial services company in Centurion. You will be responsible for developing and executing a Development Operations (DevOps) strategy to ensure quality software deployments and overall application health and performance.

POSITION INFO:
Responsibilities:

• Understands how the business operates, what the key issues and risks are that drives business success; and how they impact on the commercial viability of potential ventures and the profitability of the Group
• Anticipates, meets, and exceeds client’s needs by creating long lasting relationships that support the client value proposition, supports their financial wellness and ensures client centricity
• Drive a sense of urgency, focus, accountability, agility, and execution to deliver business results
• Actively leads change, does what is right for the business and drives continuous improvement through innovation
• Creates and maintains an open, positive working environment by generating commitment, building trust, a shared sense of purpose, empowerment in others and encouraging them to contribute to the best of their ability
• Prioritises the business interests of MHS and invests in the success of the group by aligning effort across divisions
• Persuades, convinces, influences, and inspires others, both within MHS and externally to win support, loyalty, and gain commitment to the purpose of MHS
• Manages self and relationships with others effectively, deals with ambiguity, uncertainty, and pressure, and provides perspective in difficult situations
• Is sensitive to individual and cultural differences and demonstrates humility and an openness to engage people from diverse backgrounds and cultures to the mutual benefit of all parties concerned
• Takes responsibility for own development; and actively mentors, coaches and develops talent in others. Builds leadership bench strength for MHS by providing opportunities and experiences to develop skills, competencies, and business knowledge

• IT qualification or a Postgraduate qualification in a related field
• Cloud training or certification
• 8-10 years overall experience as a Software Engineer (Developer) or equivalent
• 2-4 years’ experience as a Senior Software Engineer (Developer) or Technical Lead
• Insurance industry experience
• Good first line support skills required
• Experience with AWS (S3, DMS, EKS, EC2, RDS)
• Knowledge of Agile or Kanban or related methodologies
• Knowledge of data integrity, security and continuity of business
• Good understanding of Jenkins and Gitlab pipelines
• Good understanding of Kubernetes and WebSphere
• Good understanding of Grafana, ELK stack and TICK stack
• Python background required
• Ansible background required

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