Senior Developer IT Systems DevOps

SUMMARY:

Job Title                Senior Developer (IT Systems DevOps)

Job Type              Permanent

Location - Province          Western Cape

Location - Town or City  Cape Town, Brackenfell

Purpose of the Job         

To assist the Team Lead in the IT System DevOPS Team with the support and design of new systems, integration requirements, and maintenance of existing systems. The candidate will be responsible for the creation and/or signoff of technical designs, software versioning control, and the SDLC process for the team using best practices. The candidate will have a senior role in a team of Developers and will guide technical decisions, provide support to all implemented systems, integrations, server applications deployed in the enterprise.

Job Objectives 

1.To implement and maintain SDLC for IT System DevOps:

Manage and prioritize new workload of the team by using a SDLC process to ensure continuity and transparency.

Assist in the design, development, implementation, testing and/or modification of code.

Ensure proper Database design and table layout for simplicity, yet ensuring optimized performance and stability.

Ensure proper logging and escalation for potential failure points on all new developments deployed.

Create technical specifications and/or support documentation for system support and reference.

Interact and collaborate with other internal IT technical teams and/or external vendors in resolution or restoration of services as necessary.

Manage and resolve Incidents and Service Requests using the Service

Management and Change Management processes.

Perform general system administration duties to ensure security and integrity of data, API’s, and system access.

Regularly perform housekeeping duties to clear stale, unused, expired, and objects no longer needed.

Create, manage and troubleshoot all deployed systems regularly, including Web, App, and DB servers.

Perform general server administration duties to ensure patched systems and a stable software stack.

Perform peer reviews and deployment of all code

Assist and lead troubleshooting of programming and integration challenges/problems.

Maintain GIT repositories for DEV and PROD servers

Ensure all code is functional, concise, and optimized

Ensure code has been designed for failure with accessible logging and user guides/documentation in place

Ensure all technical designs and documentation are kept in a logical library

Ensure that the scope of new deployments is delivered in full as per design specification.

Solid experience with Git, Apache, AWS and Azure Cloud Services and Linux

Solid coding experience in Bash, Perl, PHP, Python, Nodejs

Experience with Java, NodeRed, Yaml, XML is a plus.

Perform peer reviews and signoff of all technical designs

Maintain and improve SDLC processes to ensure quality code being delivered timeously and bug free.

Strong technical design skills to guide the team on all submissions and have the final signoff prior to coding.

Strong documentation skills to review all submissions and have the final signoff prior to deployment.

Experience with the API technologies to ensure best practices are followed and implemented by the team.

Work with IT architects on new solution and integration designs.

Be involved with the entire lifecycle of a solution from design through implementation, deployment, and training.

Solid knowledge and technical proficiency coding solutions.

Be willing to take on the role of a senior programmer to guide juniors and ensure growth in the technical capability of the team and its output.

Ability to take lead and responsibility for all technical designs and archiving thereof.

Be the final gatekeeper for all deployments to PROD.

Ensure that the software deployment lifecycle management is maintained to the best industry standards.

Be prepared to engage with end-users and provide training on deployed solutions.

Qualifications  

Grade 12

Industry Certification: IT Programming Diploma or Certificate

Industry Certification: AWS/Azure Cloud Diploma or Certificate desirable

Experience        

4-7 years Extensive experience with various Programming Languages, perl, python, PHP, NodeJS, Java

2-4 years Experience with API definitions, integration design

4-7 years Experience with Microsoft and Linux System Administration for security, permissions and application patching

2-4 years Experience with AWS Cloud technology stack

Knowledge and Skills    

5-7 years understanding of Programming and SDLC fundamentals and concepts

3-5 years Understanding of System user and group permission administration

3-5 years Understanding of common application installation/patching on Linux systems

3-5 Understanding of Cloud PaaS, Docker, micro services.

3-5 years Understanding of SQL

5-8 years Proficiency in scripting and programming languages.

5-8 years Proficiency in Database design and SQL

1-3 years Willingness to apply experience and impart and guide a young team

3-5 years Strong skills in technical design of solutions

3-5 years Experience with standardization guidelines for SDLC

3-5 years Strong knowledge of API and integration design

Mandatory

Have you ever been dismissed?

Are you in possession of a valid drivers license?

Have you worked for the group before?

Do you have a criminal record, or are you the subject of any pending criminal investigation by the saps?

Have you ever had a civil judgement (credit record) taken against you or are you the subject of any pending civil judgement by the sa revenue services, or any similar proceedings?

Do you suffer from chronic illness, disease or any physical or mental disability which may affect your application for the position which you are applying for?

What is your current salary?

Do you receive any benefits with your salary?

Qualification

Do you have matric with experience equal to three times the number of years study specified?

Experience

How many years of experience do you have in html, scss, javascript?

How many years of experience do you have in single page application development?

Knowledge & skills

Do you have skills in restful API'sand API integration? 

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