Intermediate Deployment Administrator

**Responsibilities**:

- Documenting operational procedures (maintenance, user administration, server standards, etc)
- Working closely with IT teams - Database Admins, Developers, Application Support, Deploy, Testing, and IT Infrastructure
- Monitoring and enforcing the usage of the process and procedures
- Implementing departmental and industry best practice security standards
- Mitigating the risk to ensure mínimal downtime and system availability by ensuring best support practices are in place
- Managing CI and CD tools with team and collaborating with other teams to plan and create workflow processes, develop automation procedures, deploy updates.
- Technical guidance and educate team members and co-workers on deployments, development, and operations
- Analysing, solving, and correcting issues in real-time
- Taking ownership, leading and coordinating operational tasks, customer escalations, process improvements
- Performing scheduled maintenance and support release deployment activities after hours
- Providing on-call rotation support for critical production systems
- Refining and automating regular processes, track issues, and document changes.
- Assisting Developers with query tuning and schema refinement

**Education**:

- Matric (Grade 12)
- Bachelor’s degree/Diploma in Information Technology/Systems or Computer Science, Engineering, Software Engineering or equivalent
- ITIL Foundation
- Microsoft and Linux Certification or proven years of experience
- 5+ years’ solid previous experience in software deployments, development and operations, or related IT, computer, or operations.
- 3+ years IT operation with strong understanding of deployment processes and standard best practices.
- Experience with Microsoft and Linux infrastructure, database SQL (MS SQL), CI/CD tools, scripting such as JavaScript, PHP, Python, Perl, Ruby,.NET, Scrum/Kanban
- Solid previous experience with software development, infrastructure development, or development and operations
- SAFe, Agile workflow methodologies
- Deployment Platform tools - Docker, GitLab, Bitwise

**Salary**: R25,000.00 - R37,000.00 per month

Ability to commute/relocate:

- New Germany, KwaZulu-Natal: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (required)

**Experience**:

- Administrative office procedures, practices and equipment: 1 year (preferred)