IQbusiness is the largest independent management consulting firm in South Africa. Since 1998, we have helped our clients solve their problems by providing innovative, fast and cost-effective solutions. Our methods and frameworks, drawn from our 20 years of international and local experience, allow us to deliver client value early and continuously
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We are looking for DevOps Engineers who can complement the capabilities of our agile solution development teams. With your cloud management and sysadmin skills, you build and maintain environments. You enrich the solution architecture from an operations point of view and support the flow of work by provisioning automated build and deploy pipelines.
Key Responsibilities and/or Outputs
Design and promote operational practices and procedures, working closely with the Solution Development Lead
Promote best practices in all facets of the Solution Delivery LifeCycle (Plan, Code, Build, Test, Deploy, Operate, Monitor) with the team and stakeholders
Architect, provision, monitor and manage various environments (cloud and datacentre)
Implement and configure health telemetry (along with thresholds) to monitor solution and environment performance and behaviour
Design, implement and maintain automated build pipelines and automated deployment pipelines
Manage internal and external stakeholder expectations by providing frequent progress and seeking feedback
Monitor maturity of the DevOps practices and any blockers that either impedes the flow or the quality of the solution
Drive DevOps automation and containerization strategies that align with DevOps principles and standards
Identify and deploy cybersecurity measures by continuously performing vulnerability assessment and risk management
Conduct incident management and root cause analysis
Mentor and guide fellow team members
Provision and developed infrastructure using configuration management and containerization technologies (Chef, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, CloudFormation, Azure Resource Manager)
Define and promote version control and continuous code integration activities (Git (or any derivative), TFVC, SVN)