Senior DevOps Support Engineer

Recruiter:

Recru-it

Job Ref:

PE011127/LM

Date posted:

Monday, January 27, 2025

Location:

Somerset West, South Africa

Salary:

Market Related Monthly

SUMMARY:
Responsibilities/Tasks:

Design, development, implementation, migration and support of a comprehensive build and release management process and technical solution to support the development processes, using existing tools as a starting point, but building on the same or other open source, and possibly commercial tools, moving forward.
Support the adoption of Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration, Test-Driven Development, and Agile best practices, processes, and tools.
Design and develop and implement improvements for the current build and test and deployment systems (from development stage to production).
Perform support and troubleshooting of the various development tools / systems.
Ensure the uptime and availability and performance of all components of the solution.
Support program and project specific requirements that may arise.
Perform project builds and releases when assistance is required – this is key to identifying areas of improvement.
Improve security along all phases of the SDLC including scanning for code quality and vulnerabilities.
Some afterhours work will be required from time to time.

Essential Minimum Requirements

Matric
6-8 years of experience as a DevOps engineer in a software development environment with cloud technologies, preferably Azure DevOps.
6-8 years of experience in DevOps, Automation, Scripting and building CI/CD pipelines using on-premises and cloud technologies.
3+ years of experience in Linux based operating systems.
3+ years of experience in bash scripting.
3+ years of docker experience.
2+ year of experience with a provisioning tool like ansible, puppet or chef.
Solid understanding of networking.

Advantageous skills and experience

Sc or B.Eng in Computer Science, or ND:IT .
Experience in working with Jenkins or other orchestrators.
Experience with docker, Kubernetes or OpenShift.
Experience in working with Git.
Experience in working with Cloud platforms (AWS or Azure).
Experience in working with XL-deploy.
Experience in working with Graphing/logging (Kibana, Grafana, Logstash, Elasticsearch).
Familiarity with DevSecOps processes and practices.

Personal Profile

Self-starter and self-motivated.
Successful track record as a technical professional who is resourceful and innovative.
Flexible and good teamwork.
Strong attention to detail.
Results-oriented.

POSITION INFO:
Responsibilities/Tasks:

Design, development, implementation, migration and support of a comprehensive build and release management process and technical solution to support the development processes, using existing tools as a starting point, but building on the same or other open source, and possibly commercial tools, moving forward.
Support the adoption of Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration, Test-Driven Development, and Agile best practices, processes, and tools.
Design and develop and implement improvements for the current build and test and deployment systems (from development stage to production).
Perform support and troubleshooting of the various development tools / systems.
Ensure the uptime and availability and performance of all components of the solution.
Support program and project specific requirements that may arise.
Perform project builds and releases when assistance is required – this is key to identifying areas of improvement.
Improve security along all phases of the SDLC including scanning for code quality and vulnerabilities.
Some afterhours work will be required from time to time.

Essential Minimum Requirements

Matric
6-8 years of experience as a DevOps engineer in a software development environment with cloud technologies, preferably Azure DevOps.
6-8 years of experience in DevOps, Automation, Scripting and building CI/CD pipelines using on-premises and cloud technologies.
3+ years of experience in Linux based operating systems.
3+ years of experience in bash scripting.
3+ years of docker experience.
2+ year of experience with a provisioning tool like ansible, puppet or chef.
Solid understanding of networking.

Advantageous skills and experience

Sc or B.Eng in Computer Science, or ND:IT .
Experience in working with Jenkins or other orchestrators.
Experience with docker, Kubernetes or OpenShift.
Experience in working with Git.
Experience in working with Cloud platforms (AWS or Azure).
Experience in working with XL-deploy.
Experience in working with Graphing/logging (Kibana, Grafana, Logstash, Elasticsearch).
Familiarity with DevSecOps processes and practices.

Personal Profile

Self-starter and self-motivated.
Successful track record as a technical professional who is resourceful and innovative.
Flexible and good teamwork.
Strong attention to detail.
Results-oriented.

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