Biz Dev Ops Lead at Nedbank

Job Purpose

• To be a thought leader in both strategy and innovation with the evaluation of existing technologies, as well as the development of strategic Solutions and building a shared platform, including the tools, services, workflows, and data used by engineers and technical teams across the organization – encompassing the shared platform’s infrastructure, applications, and strategic aspects.

Job Responsibilities

• Architect,develop, support and maintain enterprise DevOps principles and practices.
• Lead, mentor and guide DevOps engineers in the design, building and maintenance of DevOps technologies, platform engineering practices throughout their respective life cycles.
• Partner with full stack teams to assess the enterprise and to improve effectiveness of the software delivery pipeline.
• Maintain and facilitate compliance with company, security, and regulatory standards.
• Foster innovation within the DevOps team to assist the team to continuously improve.
• Influence and collaborate within Tribes and Portfolios to architect and Design Software Deployment Pipelines
• Liaise with vendors to drive the selection procurement of DevOps enabling technologies and services.
• Lead and guide engineers in the design, building and maintenance full life cycle of selected DevOps technologies.
• Lead the design and/or development, testing and evaluation of systems and infrastructure (Infrastructure as Code preferably)
• Lead the creation of DevOps patterns and practices for the enterprise.
• Manage multiple concurrent objectives, projects, groups, or activities, making effective judgments as to prioritizing and time allocation.
• Maintain and facilitate compliance with company, security and regulatory standards.
• Support the achievement of the business strategy, objectives and values.
• Stay abreast of developments in field of expertise.
• Ensure personal growth and enable effectiveness in performance of roles and responsibilities Contribute to the Nedbank Culture building initiatives (e.g., staff surveys etc.).
• Participate and support corporate responsibility initiatives for the achievement of business strategy. Seek opportunities to improve business processes, models, and systems though agile thinking.
• Monitoring systems to analyse performance, security, and reliability.
• Developing automation scripts and tooling using DevOps Tooling. 
• Drive a culture of everything as code.
• Developing tools and processes to allow Developers to be self-sufficient.
• Building, supporting, and maintaining the Self-service Cloud platform.
• Hyper collaboration with different teams ie. Security, DevOps, Application teams etc.
• Enabling, managing, and driving FinOps across the Cloud Providers (Azure / AWS).

Essential Qualifications - NQF Level

• Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees

Preferred Qualification

• Degree in computer science, math or software engineering or equivalent technical experience BSC Computer Science.

Job Responsibilities Continue

• Azure Certifications (e.g., AZ400 Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps)
• AWS Certifications (e.g., AWS Dev Ops Engineers)
• IaC Certifications (e.g., HashiCorp Terraform, Chef)
• Container Platform Certifications (e.g., CKA or CKAD)
• Java or. Microsoft .NET Certifications

Skills (Technologies/Software Knowledge)

• Ansible
• Chef
• SQL (eg. MS SQL, PostgreSql)
• Agile
• DevOps
• Terraform
• SonarQube / SonarCloud
• Sonatype Nexus
• Azure DevOps
• Azure
• AWS
• Kubernetes

Preferred Certifications

• One of the following certification would be advantageous: DevOps Certification, LPI, RHCE, RHCA, MCSE, MCSD,CSM,OCAJP,SCJA,OCPJP or any other technical certification
• Cloud certification is preferred above fundamentals

Minimum Experience Level

• 10+ years as a Software Developer in either or all of the following: Web Development, Windows Services Development, Mobile Development, Application Development, Back-end Development, Cloud Computing or
• 10+ years as a Systems Administrator on multiple platforms on-premise and in the Cloud
• DevOps experience in cloud deployment
• Azure and/or AWS experience

Type of Exposure

• Expert understanding of architecting, designing and the implementation of a DevOps Tools in an enterprise environment
• Expert knowledge of how to build a continuous integration, continuous delivery and continuous deployment pipeline with an emphasis on quality Good understanding of release strategies
• Good understanding of monitoring techniques
• Expert understanding of security and automation with regards to DevOps practices and patterns with hands-on experience
• Management and integration of tooling related to DevOps practices in a Cloud environment
• Experience in an agile development environment using Scrum and/or Extreme Programming