TJ 390264 - DEVOPS ENGINEER

Employer Description

Our client specialises in multi-channel communications for Corporate customers throughout the country.

Job Description

• Provide input with respect to design, monitoring, deployment, resource and security requirements.
• Ensure the standards set out by the relevant DevOps strategies are being applied within the Dev project, especially with respect to logging and monitoring of application health, compatibility with infrastructure design, security requirements and compliance around data security
• Receive Deployment Plans, validate them and carry them out in an efficient manner via deployment tools available
• Ensure consistency throughout the environments (Dev, UAT, Stage, Live)
• Carry out daily checks around the health of applications sitting within your portfolio, ensuring they are running optimally, and that log collection & archiving is working effectively
• Proactively identify bottlenecks, and advise on remediation steps to improve these be that extra hardware or improved software design
• Use the knowledge gained where possible to correct issues or escalate to the correct Technology team
• Attend Dev retrospectives and highlight where necessary issues that occurred during the deployment process with suggestions on ways to improve it
• Work closely with dev team to ensure that solutions are designed with scale/performance and operability in mind 

Shared DevOps Responsibilities:

• Research new technologies to be implemented within DevOps environment to improve the process of code deployment to our environments, seek out in-efficiencies and match relevant technology solutions to resolve them
• Follow a source control culture within the configuration of Servers and Applications whereby environments are configured via code obtained via source control and not manual interaction

Qualifications

• A relevant Information Technology tertiary qualification and Microsoft Certifications
• AWS / Azure Certification
• JIRA experience
• Experience in open source Linux enviroment

Skills

• Minimum 5 years’ experience in Information Technology primarily using Microsoft Technologies
• Proven hands on experience with Amazon Web services and web hosting environments
• Database experience on MySQL and MSSQL
• Source control using Git with Bitbucket
• Exposure to software development
• Scrum/Agile experience

Benefits

• Retirement Fund
• Medical Aid
• Data Card