Senior Director: DevOps HRis Product Owner

2 weeks ago


Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa NTT Ltd. Full time

NTT is a leading global IT solutions and services organisation that brings together people, data and things to create a better and more sustainable future.

In today's 'iNTTerconnected' world, connections matter more now than ever.

By bringing together talented people, world-class technology partners and emerging innovators, we help our clients solve some of the world's most significant technological, business and societal challenges.


With people at the heart of our success, NTT is committed to attracting and growing the best talent and providing an environment where everyone feels they can belong and their contribution matters.


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The primary responsibility of the DevOps Management is to collaborate with a variety of stakeholders to ensure available, scalable, and reliable business experiences in the daily management of the DevOps area in the business.

The role should drive increased capacity to innovate and expedite the value add to our business. This includes management of all design, build, release and support activities associated with the relevant portfolio.

The role needs to take decisive management accountability and ownership of the DevOps portfolio of the entire scope of work.

They are responsible to ensure the team delivers and executes in alignment with solid DevOps principles and practices.

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

  • Provide technical guidance and leadership to DevOps projects that are being executed.
  • Work closely with a variety of internal stakeholders to ensure the execution of the DevOps strategy.
  • Promotes, documents, and implements systems infrastructure best practices, building tools that allow the department to develop and deploy impeccable sites/software.
  • Advises on the creation of tools that leverage productivity amplifiers such as code generators and schema repositories for scalable deployment.
  • Manages individuals and groups and allocates responsibilities and/or packages of work, including supervisory responsibilities.
  • Plays a mentorship role to key DevOps employees, constantly promoting improvement in their professional skills.
  • Design and build infrastructure for sites/software, ensuring the highest levels of security and responding swiftly to any new and emerging vulnerabilities and security threats.
  • Recommends tools and automated workflow capabilities in order to enable the business's software engineering teams to test and promote code.
  • Builds, configures, and maintains the frameworks, tools, and systems that enable optimal performance of the business's sites/software.
  • Leads the design and implementation of realtime monitoring systems of these sites/software.
  • Is responsible for the development of standards and processes for operations that proactively prevent problems from occurring.
  • Collaborates with the quality assurance department in creating solution designs, capacity planning, and performance optimization.

Knowledge, Skills, and Attributes:

  • Demonstrates technical leadership and oversight of implementation and deployment planning, system integration, ongoing data validation processes, quality assurance, delivery, operations, and sustainability of technical solutions
  • Possesses expert technical understanding of the intersection of development and operations (DevOps), monitoring and management tools, and deployment processes and tools
  • Demonstrated ability in people management, strategic planning, risk management, change management, and project management
  • Excellent judgment, analytical thinking, and problemsolving skills
  • Experience working with quality management approaches, techniques, and principles
  • Full understanding of software development lifecycle best practices
  • Deep technical understanding of development and platform engineering
  • Customer centricity and strong collaboration capabilities
  • Highly focused on outcomes
  • Highly organized and planned individual
  • Strategic ability to define technical direction in the portfolio of products including technical strategies and plans and execution plans
  • Strong stakeholder and relationship management
  • Excellent communication skills coupled with exceptional leadership skills
  • Demonstrate a superior and practical understanding of accepted DevOps principles

Academic Qualifications and Certifications:

  • Typically requires extensive related experience with a Bachelor's or equivalent degree
  • Relevant certifications beneficial
  • Relevant DevOps certifications will be beneficial
  • Agile related certifications preferable

Required Experience:

  • Minimum of years of team management experience
  • Substantial working experience in a DevOps capacity, working within a fastpaced and fastevolving environment
  • Vast and successful experience leading a DevOps team
  • Demonstrated experience in enterprise network technologies
  • Significant experience in service management practices and processes within a con


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