Centurion, South Africa

Description

Develop and execute a Development Operations (DevOps) strategy to ensure quality software deployments and overall application health and performance.

Requirements

  • 2-4 years’ experience as a Senior Software Engineer (Developer) or Technical Lead.
  • 8-10 years overall experience as a Software Engineer (Developer) or equivalent
  • Insurance industry experience
  • IT qualification or a Postgraduate qualification in a related field
  • Cloud training or certification
  • 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 Web sphere
  • Good understanding of Grafana, ELK stack and TICK stack
  • Python background required
  • Ansible background required

Bonuses

Benefits

Responsibilities

  • Set DevOps best practices for the technology team, enabling them to implement these practices in their daily work.
  • Teach and mentor DevOps to other engineers within the technology team.
  • Conduct tool research, evaluation, proof of concept, installation, configuration and training.
  • Ensure both development and operationally focused teams work seamlessly as one combined, end-to-end team.
  • Design Continuous Integration processes, tools and execution includes test frameworks, solution quality analysis Design, promote, and support services.
  • Oversee the build and versioning of solution releases.
  • Document, implement and automate (where possible) deployment processes that entail packaging releases, pushing releases and executing installs.
  • Support infrastructure for implementing, administering services and deployments.
  • Work with developers to implement continuous integration pipelines.
  • Implement and manage centralized development tools.
  • Oversee OS upgrades, patch installation, and application installations.
  • Monitor infrastructure and services to maximize uptime.
  • Troubleshoot and help to resolve production issues.
  • Perform root cause analysis.
  • Review technical documentation.
  • Ensure team can independently install, customize and integrate commercial software packages.
  • Work with experienced team members to conduct root cause analysis of issues, review new and existing solutions and/or perform unit testing.
  • Facilitate requirements, design and build reviews.
  • Identify ideas to improve system performance and impact availability.
  • Resolve complex integration/system issues.
  • Partner with experienced team members to develop accurate work estimates on work packages, exceptional client service.