SUMMARY:
Seeking a Lead DevOps Engineer with an IT Degree/ Diploma and relevant certification plus 10 -12 years related experience for an EE position with a large corporate in Cape Town.

POSITION INFO:

Responsibilities

·         As the lead CI/CD Pipeline Engineer you will use your experience in Software Development and the SDLC to help establish, enhance and co-ordinate the DevOps CI/CD pipeline across various teams.

·         Design, build and maintain effective CI/CD pipelines across multiple teams.

·         Write and maintain software and services that enhance the CI pipeline and streamline the software delivery process.

·         Architect environments that encourage automation and reliability.

·         Work with Software Developers to deploy new applications across the stack (development, beta, production, etc).

·         Own the CI/CD infrastructure.

·         Establish a code testing framework for infrastructure and configuration.

·         Integrate application code, tooling, containerization, config management and monitoring with no manual steps.

·         Be an ambassador for DevOps across the business, influencing others to embrace automation and DevOps principles. 

·         Work with the Release Manager to ensure successful and streamlined production deployments.

Requirements

Qualifications & Experience

·         IT Degree/Diploma with required certification

·         10 to 12 years related experience.

• Background in software engineering (using languages such as .Net, Java, Python, etc).
• Experience of CI/CD tooling and delivering best practices.
• Experience with Windows/Linux and virtualization.
• Good system design knowledge.
• Experience with Kubernetes and Docker and deep knowledge of containerization.
• Confident with Ansible, Terraform, GIT for configuration management.
• Experience with AWS and/or Azure.
• Network and security knowledge.
• Experience deploying, managing and troubleshooting of software applications  
• Proficient in Agile practices.

Skills/ Knowledge

Other DevOps tooling including the following (or similar): 

• XebiaLabs Deploy (Deployment Management) 
• XebiaLabs Release (Release Management) 
• Azure DevOps Server
• Atlassian JIRA (Issue tracking/work-piece Management) 
• Atlassian Bamboo (Build Management) 
  Atlassian BitBucket (Source Management) 

Application platform, maintenance, implementation and configuration of the following (or similar): 

• Apache Tomcat 
• Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 
• RedHat JBoss EAP (or Wildfly) 
  Infrastructure/Application configuration management tooling including the following (or similar): 
• Ansible · Chef · Puppet · Foreman · Rundeck 
• Understand the concept of integration of web-based services and practical use of APIs, REST and SOAP services. 
• Understand conceptual makeup of the SDLC and in particular, with regards to the implementation phase, the change in responsibilities based on level of agility. 

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