DevOps Engieer

**12 Month contract role with a high profile company, well known and a market leader in their field of expertise.**

**DEVOPS ENGINEER**

**Key Purpose**

**Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to**
- Build scalable, efficient cloud infrastructure solutions
- Effectively utilize monitoring and logging tools to identify root cause
- Expert in working and deploying to Kubernetes
- Expert in Bash and groovey scripting
- Implement automation tools and frameworks (CI/CD pipelines)
- Build, Manage and Support environments in Azure and AWS cloud
- Deploy updates and fixes via automated pipelines
- Troubleshoot production issues and coordinate with the development team to streamline code deployment.
- Conduct systems tests and manage security, performance, and availability
- Design, develop, and implement software integrations
- Develop and maintain design and troubleshooting documentation
- Personal Attributes and Skills

**Required Skills**:

- AWS and Azure Cloud
- Jenkins
- Strong Linux skills
- Kubernetes
- Ansible
- Terraform
- Puppet
- CFEngine

**Behavioural Competencies**:

- Drives Results
- Values Driven
- Optimistic
- Learns on the Fly
- Resilient
- Instils Trust
- People Savvy
- Problem Solver
- Manages complexity
- Balances Stakeholders
- Transparency
- Multitasking
- Organizational skills
- Analytics

**Additional attributes**
- Strong Ownership qualities
- Ability to assess and prioritize
- Excellent planning and organizational skills
- Able to work under pressure in a fast-paced environment
- A strong passion for customers and technology
- Self-motivated, self-thinker and pro-active
- Excellent communications skills and good team player
- Strong interpersonal skills specifically with the ability to establish and grow relationships with diverse stakeholders
- Well-developed conflict handling skills
- Willing to learn and develop oneself

**Education and Experience**

**Education**:

- Sc. Degree in Computer Science,

**Experience**:

- 3+ years experience as a DevOps Engineer or equivalent software-engineering role.
- Expert in code deployment tools (Puppet, Ansible, and Chef)
- Managing AWS infrastructure which includes setup, monitoring and alerts, resource allocation, and deployment architecture.
- Automation of development processes (CICD)
- 3+ years experience in Kubernetes support and deployment
- 3+ years experience in writing and supporting Jenkins files
- Working knowledge of Groovey, Ruby or Python and known DevOps
- Working knowledge of GitHub with GitHub actions and GitHub runners
- Expert in building Helm charts and continuous deployment strategies

**Knowledge**:

- SDLC
- Bashscripting
- Jenkinsfile (pipeline as code)
- Kubernetes management
- Configuration Management Tools (Cfengine, Chef etc)
- Java runtime configuration
- Monitoring tools (Dynatrace, ELK, Grafana, Prometheus)

Reach me at the detail below:
Thank you,

Theresa Steenkamp

Key Account Manager - Network Contracting Solutions