Dev Ops Engineer

7 days ago

Bellville, South Africa Sanlam Limited Full time

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Santam IT is looking for a DevOps Engineer to join the IT Support team.

JOB DESCRIPTION

he incumbent will form part of the IT4IT Team (the IT Support Team) and work with all the development teams (Guidewire, JDE, Microsoft, Java, etc.). This includes working specifically with Technical Architecture and Release & Deployment Management to support and maintain the IT Support technical infrastructure, DevSecOps processes & procedures. Specific emphasis for this role will be the support of the development teams, implementation of alerting & monitoring and the support of infrastructure and application components.

PRINCIPLE ACCOUNTABILITIES

- Technical support of IT Support technology (hardware, software, including upgrades, resolving vulnerabilities). The technology is primarily based on Atlassian products, but also includes other software and technology components.
- Administration of infrastructure deployment, technical support procedures, application deployments & releases, servers, nodes, databases, etc.
- Monitoring and management of hardware & software resources across all environments and taking pro-active action where required.
- Collaborating with Architects, Technical Specialists and Team Leaders on ways to automate and improve the development, release management and production observation processes & procedures
- System troubleshooting and maintenance
- Installation of software (from operating systems through to applications) across environments
- Management and leadership of the IT4IT Team

General Functions

- Consult with the Solution Architects on the development platforms (Guidewire, JDE, MS D365, .Net, Java, Cloud) in terms of application configuration and infrastructure to support application services
- Identification of bottlenecks and process inefficiencies and collaborate with team to create and implement improvements
- Identification of potential risks / issues and give input into risk plan
- Develop and maintain a comprehensive understanding of the internal workings of key software packages within IT Support.
- Work with key vendors to understand their current and future offerings & services with a view of adopting and driving broad implementation
- Manage, mentor and support the rest of the IT4IT Team.

Quality Assurance

- Work as a team member with Development teams and technical staff, to ensure the solutions/amendments are implemented according to best practice
- Participate in various Troubleshooting & Problem-Solving initiatives setup and managed by Technical Support and/or SGT

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

- National Diploma / Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Informatics, Information Systems, Information Technology, Engineering or another quantitative field preferred
- Minimum of 3-5 years relevant experience
- Working experience with Windows & Redhat Linux.
- Working experience with Atlassian DataCenter and clustering.
- Proficient in development languages such as Java and Python.
- Experience with CI/CD (continuous integration, continuous delivery) tools
- Experience in application development, version control, support and release management
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes for container management and orchestration.
- Expertise in setting up and managing and maintaining Nexus, Sonar and Bamboo and Bitbucket
- Experience working with and supporting complex systems deployed to cloud (i.e. AWS) would be beneficial

KNOWLEDGE

- Familiarity with monitoring tools and the management thereof
- Understanding of software development principles and practices
- Good understanding of complex IT environments, network infrastructure such as load balancers, network proxies, NFS/NAS, etc.
- Knowledge of security best practices, encryption, and identity management and the ability to implement security measures in CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure
- Understanding of Agile and Scrum methodologies.
- Familiarity with both SQL and NoSQL databases and Round Robin databases.

COMPETENCIES

- Competent in problem solving and troubleshooting at application and networked infrastructure levels
- Creativity in finding efficient solutions to technical problems
- Stakeholder management as it relates to business and technical users at different levels in the organisation
- Research and presentation skills
- Must be able to work in a team focused highly pressurised and dynamic environment
- Investigation and analysis of information
- Planning and organisation
- Communication of technical guidance and instruction to team members
- Ability to write technical instructions in the use of programs and / or program modifications
- Ability to accept accountability for actions and decisions

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