DevOps Engineer 2 (CPT) at BETSoftware

You Bring:

• Diploma/Degree in IT or working experience in an IT related field.
• Minimum of 2 years in an IT related field.
• Previous software development skills advantageous.
• Detailed knowledge of the SLDC and management of software projects
• Good written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Must be able to adapt to work in a fast paced, dynamic environment.
• Resilience and capability to be forward thinking and learning.

What You’ll Do:

Technical Outputs:

Deployments and Responsibilities:

• Implement CI/CD solutions using most appropriate approved patterns.
• Implement CI/CD solutions for single and multi-tier architectures.
• Be actively involved with roll-back/forward procedures.
• Planning preparation and participation:
• Act based on your understanding/findings to reduce the possibility of failure.
• Understand the CI/CD requirements for all projects by attending project planning meetings when required or taking all other reasonable steps to explain and help teams visualize the end-to-end flow of software, through DevOps.
• Help teams get a better understanding of the steps involved to get CI/CD done which in turns brings value to the customer.
• Share operational needs and development forecasts to allow for accurate planning of projects in a timely manner.
• Working with project managers and developers to get software and systems up and running in a timely manner.
• Be actively involved with roll-back/forward decision making.
• Share successful patterns for building applications/services and deployments across teams and/or products.

Implementation of Solutions:

• Understand and implement containerization of the OS and libraries that encompass the entire runtime environment.
• Understand and implement running applications in a virtualized environment (Windows Server, Linux VMs).
• Ensure solution has a High Usability factor, is reliable and maintainable.
• Understanding emerging technologies and methodologies such as microservices, and when to implement them.

Planning Preparation and Participation: 

• Planning preparation - gather business system requirements.
• Identify all dependencies, including those which may not be immediately apparent.
• Act based on understanding/findings to reduce the possibility of failure.
• Planning - participate in Project Planning.

Continuous Improvement:

• Acquire all the skills needed to use and deploy:
• Server Virtualization
• Provide and share diagrams of your:
• Infrastructure
• Infrastructure as code
• Document the CI/CD process as well as the server setup

Support Testing and Verification:

• Ensure the project management team and management team are informed of potential risks due to unfixed defects or fix defects.
• Assist developers in practicing high quality/velocity methodologies such as test-driven development (TDD).
• Ensure that each change is built and verified by means of tests and verifications that would quickly detect any integration errors.
• Perform monitoring and configuration.
• Deploy all new applications/solutions/modules.
• Perform upgrades and complete fixes within the production environment.
• Ensure that all modules are ready for production based on specific procedures.
• Perform monitoring, configuration, maintenance and troubleshooting of the implemented solution.
• Recommend tools and techniques that will enable high velocity delivery of applications.

Use Tools and Technologies:

• Display a thorough understanding of DevOps key concepts.
• Display knowledge of various DevOps tools and technologies.
• Identify new tools which would improve the overall effectiveness of DevOps.
• Use tools to increase the overall development velocity and code quality.

Behavioral Outputs:

Adaptably Resilient:

• Adapts to change and is open to new ideas and willing to take on new responsibilities.
• Able to handle pressure and can effectively adjust plans to meet changing needs/demands.
• Changes his/her interpersonal style and approach based on the circumstances.
• Adapts behavior to maintain cooperative relationships with others.
• Accepts changes to task, plans and procedures in order to align with strategic direction of the organization and appropriately adjusts behavior and activities to changing conditions.
• Maintains a positive attitude in the face of change.

Decision Making Quality:

• Makes confident, timely, fact-based decisions drawing on a broad range of resources through collaboration with others.
• Ensures others understand the decision before moving forward.
• Considers short- and long-term implications of the decision.
• Able to logically defend and explain judgements and decisions.
• Takes steps to accurately define the problem before seeking a solution.
• Bases decisions and evaluations on a careful and systematic review of relevant facts and information.