Cloud DevOps Engineer – Johannesburg at Affirmative Portfolios

YOUR DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES 

The key focus areas of this role are:

• Be hands-on with the tools and collaborate with multiple product squads to deliver collective
• outcomes, covering the following:
• Implement platform provisioning and maintenance solutions, e.g., setting up cloud platform
• resources, middleware configuration, databases, etc with IaC.
• Implement release engineering solutions, e.g., setting up release pipeline, release notes,
• application deployment, etc.
• Implement operational workflow and orchestration solutions, e.g., job scheduling, file
• transfer, etc.
• Implement business continuity solutions, e.g., monitoring, backup, recovery, etc.
• Implement workforce computing solutions, e.g., provisioning end-user computing
• resourcing, identity & access management, etc.
• Implement operations automation using configuration and orchestration toolsets, as well as
• scripting frameworks.
• Promote adherence to engineering standards and best practices.
• Develop CICD pipeline using various tools such as Azure Bicep, ARM template and Powershell
• Promote timely feedback to drive continuous improvement, automation, and focus on value
• delivery.
• Assume technical accountability for the successful implementation of changes.
• Assess and manage technical risks, ensuring the non-functional requirements are being captured and
• met.
• Assist root-cause analysis of support incidents and issues.
• Assist your team in tracking application issues and provide clear feedback on potential changes or
• improvements where applicable.
• Identify, analyse, and support the resolution of application issues with internal and external parties.
• Support team leads and members on all technical matters to achieve team outcomes.
• Contribute the realization of the technical vision of the IT products that are being built, ensuring
• alignment to enterprise quality assurance and governance practices, be an advocate of DevSecOps
• practices.

YOUR KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ATTRIBUTES

Knowledge acquired awareness and/or experience

• Minimum 1 year or more with Azure cloud infrastructure setup and Infrastructure as Code (IAC).
• Minimum 1 year of experience in Azure Cloud DevOps engineer role with Bicep.
• Experience with various DevOps concepts, tools, and technologies.
• Experience with CI/CD and related toolsets, good understanding with Azure DevOps.
• Experience with operations integrations (e.g., system integrations via API, file transfer, etc.).
• Experience in Agile framework supporting CI/CD processes.
• Experience with infrastructure and network management (e.g., system patching, middleware
• upgrade, monitoring, etc.)
• Experience with local data centre resource management and setup.
• Basic understanding of security and vulnerability management (e.g., firewall configuration, endpoint
• upgrade, security patching, etc).
• Industry / business knowledge of the Australian Insurance market (preferably with experience of
• General Insurance) is highly desirable. 

Skills acquired awareness and/or experience

• Skills in infrastructure/network fundamentals, administrative toolsets, and scripting.
• Ability to perform technical work breakdown and estimation.
• Ability to configure and to deploy network and cloud infrastructure resources.
• Ability to configure CI/CD toolsets such as Azure DevOps or equivalent.
• Ability to implement modern configuration and orchestration management toolsets (e.g., Puppet,
• Ansible, Chef, etc)
• Ability to configure and to leverage modern work tracking toolset (e.g., Azure Boards, Jira).
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, and the ability to articulate, advocate and
• influence team culture and bring people on the journey.

Qualifications (Formal study undertaken and completed) 

• Tertiary qualification in Computer Science or related Technology discipline preferred.
• Azure and/or DevOps related certifications are highly desirable.