DevOps Engineer at Blue Label Telecoms

JOB PURPOSE:

Blue Label is currently seeking DevOps engineers looking to join the DevOps team. The purpose and aim of the DevOps team or practice is to facilitate the implementation of DevOps across the group’s IT teams thereby improving overall delivery. As a DevOps engineer you are expected to understand the entire lifecycle and assist in implementing flexible, scalable, innovative and

modern solutions in support of an Agile SDLC. Continuously enhance the monitoring and measurability of system performance metrics that will provide input into continuous improvement and stabilization efforts. Do you have a broad understanding of tools and technologies and are looking to constantly learn?

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Promote DevOps culture and practices across the organization
• Understand programming and assist teams with development practices
• Do any general software development
• Assist in automated testing strategies for development teams
• Assist with Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery implementation across the entire IT landscape
• Effectively leverage all DevOps tooling delivery pipelines
• Implement automation for deployment pipelines for applications and configurations
• Understands operating systems and can use Linux proficiently
• Understands infrastructure and virtualization technologies
• Help create strategies around cloud transformation
• Help with scaling of systems
• Able to implement containerization
• Implement CI pipelines in order to facilitate faster delivery
• Assist with testing strategies and automated testing implementations to improve the quality of delivered software
• Automating mundane and repetitive work across IT
• Assist in architecting complex, multi-faceted applications across cloud platforms
• Assist in improving releases through the practices of DevOps
• Implement monitoring to effectively maintain systems
• Experiment with new technologies to assist with the cloud transformation journey
• In summary, “Be the example” to encourage DevOps culture and improve delivery

EDUCATION

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or Software Engineering
• Bachelor of Science in Engineering
• These degrees are preferred

Specific Technology Requirements

• Terraform scripting for hardware provisioning
• Ansible / Chef scripting for configuration management and software deployment.
• Gitlab / GitHub as a lifecycle tool for DevOps CI/CD automation
• Git and SVN as Source Control Management
• Experience using Linux OS and Bash scripting
• Kubernetes / Docker for containerization and orchestration
• Database knowledge of SQL or NoSQL
• IT Security practices and tools
• Cloud platforms such as Azure and/or AWS and their respective toolsets.
• Intermediate to Senior experience with either Java or C#
• Intermediate to senior experience with an interpreted language (Python, Ruby)

EXPERIENCE

• Minimum of 2+ years of progressive work experience as a DevOps engineer