Configuration Manager at Discovery Limited

Key Purpose
Vitality Group is a global organization that has adopted a modern, multi-region cloud-native architecture to deliver the vitality solution to its Global customers. The purpose of this role is to define, codify and centralize all verified configuration under the discipline of configuration management which will serve as inputs for automated provisioning and deployments. This includes configuration stored in source code repositories, artifact repositories and discovered resources in the CMDB.

Key Outputs

• Establish configuration management process that ensures configuration changes are approved and verified before deployment.
• Identifying and Cataloguing system-wide configuration dependencies and rules across environments
• Reporting on configuration inconsistencies and invoking remediation steps to correct
• Monitor configuration consistency to avoid configuration drift
• Ensure that binaries, packages and versions are verified and supported
• Developing and maintaining the versioning standard and integrity of build scripts, infrastructure provisioning scripts, software configuration scripts (application and database) and deployment configuration files.
• Manage configuration polices as configuration as code
• Leverage discovery tools to verify that the configuration provisioned and deployed is correct
• Conduct configuration audits across environments to understand configuration drift or items not under configuration control that supposed to be
• Provide reporting on resources that attract costs and their net financial impact (trends, increase or decrease)
• Establish a configuration management system that can queried for configuration data across environments
• Analyse configuration item data, configuration item relationships, identify data inconsistencies or anomalies, and report on data discrepancies
• Work with the configuration owners to verify version of configuration
• Reconcile configuration items from other trusted data sources into the CMS
• Participate in Capacity and Fault tolerant initiatives
• Participate in Procurement and Financial Management activities

 

Technical Competencies

• Strong Cloud computing background
• Strong Reporting and Data Analysis skills
• Have a practical understanding of source code repositories, artefact repositories and ITIL CMDB
• Have a practical understanding of configuration as code and management thereof.
• Have a practical understanding of DevOps and CI/CD related processes
• Have a practical understanding of a Microservices Architecture
• Have a practical understanding of Site Reliability principles and processes.

 

Qualifications And Experience

• ITIL or CMMI qualification (preferably on configuration management)
• +5 years’ experience in working with configuration as code.
• +3 years working with Cloud Services
• +3 years working in within a Microservices based environment
• Qualification in software development
• Experience in supporting cloud-native enterprises
• Experience in designing and implementing a Configuration Management System