Biz Dev Ops Lead

4 weeks ago

Sandton, South Africa Progressive IT Resourcing Full time

Job Purpose

To be a thought leader in both strategy and innovation with the evaluation of existing technologies, as well as the development of strategic Solutions and building a shared platform, including the tools, services, workflows, and data used by engineers and technical teams across the organization – encompassing the shared platform’s infrastructure, applications, and strategic aspects.

Job Responsibilities

  • Architect, develop, support and maintain enterprise DevOps principles and practices.
  • Lead, mentor and guide DevOps engineers in the design, building and maintenance of DevOps technologies, platform engineering practices throughout their respective life cycles.
  • Partner with full stack teams to assess the enterprise and to improve effectiveness of the software delivery pipeline.
  • Maintain and facilitate compliance with company, security, and regulatory standards.
  • Foster innovation within the DevOps team to assist the team to continuously improve.
  • Influence and collaborate within Tribes and Portfolios to architect and Design Software Deployment Pipelines
  • Liaise with vendors to drive the selection procurement of DevOps enabling technologies and services.
  • Lead and guide engineers in the design, building and maintenance full life cycle of selected DevOps technologies.
  • Lead the design and/or development, testing and evaluation of systems and infrastructure (Infrastructure as Code preferably)
  • Lead the creation of DevOps patterns and practices for the enterprise.
  • Manage multiple concurrent objectives, projects, groups, or activities, making effective judgments as to prioritizing and time allocation.
  • Maintain and facilitate compliance with company, security and regulatory standards.
  • Support the achievement of the business strategy, objectives and values.
  • Stay abreast of developments in field of expertise.
  • Ensure personal growth and enable effectiveness in performance of roles and responsibilities Contribute to the Company Culture building initiatives (e.g., staff surveys etc.).
  • Participate and support corporate responsibility initiatives for the achievement of business strategy. Seek opportunities to improve business processes, models, and systems though agile thinking.
  • Monitoring systems to analyse performance, security, and reliability.
  • Developing automation scripts and tooling using DevOps Tooling.
  • Drive a culture of everything as code.
  • Developing tools and processes to allow Developers to be self-sufficient.
  • Building, supporting, and maintaining the Self-service Cloud platform.
  • Hyper collaboration with different teams ie. Security, DevOps, Application teams etc.
  • Enabling, managing, and driving FinOps across the Cloud Providers (Azure / AWS).

Essential Qualifications - NQF Level

  • Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees

Preferred Qualification

  • Degree in computer science, math or software engineering or equivalent technical experience BSC Computer Science.

Job Responsibilities Continue

  • Azure Certifications (e.g., AZ400 Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps)
  • AWS Certifications (e.g., AWS Dev Ops Engineers)
  • IaC Certifications (e.g., Hashicorp Terraform, Chef)
  • Container Platform Certifications (e.g., CKA or CKAD)
  • Java or. Microsoft .NET Certifications.

Skills (Technologies/Software Knowledge)

  • Ansible
  • Chef
  • SQL (eg. MS SQL, PostgreSQL)
  • Agile
  • DevOps
  • Terraform
  • SonarQube / Sonar Cloud
  • Sonatype Nexus
  • Azure DevOps
  • Azure
  • AWS
  • Kubernetes

Preferred Certifications

  • One of the following certification would be advantageous: DevOps Certification, LPI, RHCE, RHCA, MCSE, MCSD,CSM,OCAJP,SCJA,OCPJP or any other technical certification
  • Cloud certification is preferred above fundamentals.

Minimum Experience Level

  • 10+ years as a Software Developer in either or all of the following: Web Development, Windows Services Development, Mobile Development, Application Development, Back-end Development, Cloud Computing or
  • 10+ years as a Systems Administrator on multiple platforms on-premise and in the Cloud
  • DevOps experience in cloud deployment
  • Azure and/or AWS experience.

Type of Exposure

  • Expert understanding of architecting, designing and the implementation of a DevOps Tools in an enterprise environment
  • Expert knowledge of how to build a continuous integration, continuous delivery and continuous deployment pipeline with an emphasis on quality Good understanding of release strategies.
  • Good understanding of monitoring techniques.
  • Expert understanding of security and automation with regards to DevOps practices and patterns with hands-on experience.
  • Management and integration of tooling related to DevOps practices in a Cloud environment.
  • Experience in an agile development environment using Scrum and/or Extreme Programming.

Technical / Professional Knowledge

  • Java Development with J2EE and/or Spring boot knowledge (Advanced)
  • Microsoft ASP.NET, .NET CORE, C#, VB.NET (Advanced)
  • JavaScript Frameworks(Angular.js, React.js,Aurelia.js,Vue.js) (Advanced)
  • Automation products such as Terraform, Chef, Ansible, Slat Stack or Puppet (Advanced)
  • Administering either of the following Linux or Unix distributions RedHat Linux, Suze Linux, Davian, Ubuntu, AIX, SCO,HP/UX (Advanced
  • Bash and/or PowerShell scripting (Advanced).

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