CICD and Platform Engineer at Old Mutual

Job Description

We are one of the top African Financial Institution leaders looking for an experienced CI/CD engineer. The Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) engineer will be responsible for builds, pipeline automation, and deploying code for all environments including Production. The successful candidate will join our excellent team of engineers who formulates solutions to the most intricate problems.

• Identify, internally or externally, technologies and patterns to deliver version control to development teams and apply the Old Mutual Cloud Security Controls Standard.
• Develop, scale, and control strategies, standards, guidelines, governance of Continuous Integration systems Own the design of the platform deployment system and associated tools, processes, role assignments, dependencies, and documentation.
• Ensure software configuration management tooling adheres to the Old Mutual Cloud Security Controls Standard.
• Join the ongoing design, implementation, and preservation of systems and tools across the on premise infrastructure and migrating to cloud stack.
• Own the execution/implementation of multiple Platform Engineering objectives.
• Craft and maintain Platform Engineering documentation, templates and style guides and assist software development teams to adopt standards during delivery.
• Work directly with the third-party vendors / enablers to fix infrastructural and environmental issues.
• Respond to and resolve support tickets in the Platform Engineering support queue.
• Facilitate AWS technical enablement workshops to the software development and architecture teams.
• Bachelor’s/ Tech Diploma in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or other IT related fields.
• 3-5+ years of experience TFS (Azure DevOps) in CI/CD engineering experience with a different skillset.
• Knowledge of the Software Development Lifecycle. Knowledge of DevOps advantageous.
• Hands-on experience in installing, configuring, operating, and monitoring CI/CD pipeline tools
• Knowledge of at least one high-level programming language: Java, Angular
• Knowledge in installing, configuring, operating, and monitoring software security pipeline tools
• Nexus Lifecycle Analysis (Scanning for Vulnerabilities)
• Understanding, learning and applying new automated build, test and deployment capabilities and help develop project teams towards integrating such solutions.
• Design, propose, facilitate organizational and process improvements as needed for supporting CI/CD pipeline automation.
• Participate in the design of service automation in cloud towards Infrastructure-as-code and engineering of new cloud technologies.
• Strong skillset on integrating and operating Static and Dynamic Code Scans for security testing, OpenSource Code Scan with pipelines.
• Ability to produce technical documentation.
• Technical skills required:
• Experience in working with tools or of similar type as GITlab, Jenkins, Artifactory, SonarQube.
• Experience with Docker containers and Kubernetes and other types of Microservices and Container technologies highly preferred.
• Well versed in internet architectures, including web, application, and database components.
• On-hands experience with various Microsoft and open-source based platforms is a plus. (such as IIS, MsSQL, Apache, Tomcat, MySQL, Postgres, etc.)

Additional Qualifications/Experience (preferred, Not a Requirement)

• Shell (e.g. Bash) scripts are advantageous.
• Experience maintaining and working on Linux Servers
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
• AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate
• AWS Certified Developer Associate

Competencies Required

• Customer focus
• Multi-functional team collaboration
• Data-driven and attention to detail and big picture
• Action Oriented
• Continuous Improvement Management
• Automation
• Problem Finding and Solving