DevOps Engineer at Swift Momentum

Job description

Seeking a dev ops engineer to join its expanding team in Cape Town. You are either a developer who got interested in deployment and network operations or a sysadmin who has a passion for scripting and coding and moved into the development side where you can improve the planning of test and deployment. Either way, you are a person who have pushed beyond your defined area of competence and who have a more holistic view of their technical environments.

 Job Specifications

• Ability to use a wide variety of open source technologies and tools
• Ability to code and script
• Experience with systems and IT operations
• Comfort with frequent, incremental code testing and deployment
• Strong grasp of automation tools
• Comfort with collaboration, open communication and reaching across functional borders
• Codes and documents custom test automation frameworks.
• Reviews modules for quality assurance.
• Builds automated deployments using configuration management technology
• Performs ongoing routine application maintenance tasks.
• Manage the methods of deployment (development, testing and production) and the processes and tools required to execute those deployments
• Manage the continuous integration systems
• Create failure management processes and tools so outages can be handled without causing a loss of delivery
• Champion changes to tools and processes to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the development team
• Manage issue tracking and agile development tools (Atlassian JIRA)
• Automate parts of the development delivery process using scripts and other appropriate tools
• Advise on new technologies and methodologies by becoming an expert in emerging technologies and tools

Desired Skills and Experience

Required Skills

• Strong background in Linux/Unix Administration
• Must have a good knowledge of deployment and configuration technologies (e.g. Jenkins, Puppet, Docker, Chef).
• Ability to use a wide variety of open source technologies and cloud services (experience with AWS is required)
• Strong experience with SQL and MySQL (NoSQL experience is a plus, too, since we also use Redis)
• A working understanding of code and scripting languages (e.g. Java, Python, Ruby etc.)
• Knowledge of best practices and IT operations in an always-up, always-available service
• Should have experience operating in virtual environments.
• Must have a good working knowledge of source control technologies (e.g. Git, subversion).

Personal Attributes

• Excellent organisational and time management skills;
• The capacity to prioritise tasks and work under pressure;
• Ability to liaise well with others and delegate tasks;
• Strong oral and written communication skills;
• Ability to work on your own initiative;
• Attention to detail;
• Highly organised.