DevOps Engineer - Cape Town at RTT

PURPOSE:

• The candidate engineer is responsible for the smooth operation of a company's IT infrastructure.
• They work with developers to deploy and manage code changes, and support operations staff to ensure that systems are up and running smoothly.
• To be successful in this role, a DevOps engineer must have a deep understanding of both development and operations processes, as well as a strong technical background.
• The candidate will also be responsible for participating in all phases of development, including requirements gathering, design, development, deployment, security, maintenance, performance tuning, and monitoring.
• You should be proficient in Azure: Software development kit (SDKs)

Skills and Experience

Job Outputs

DevOps

• Understanding customer requirements and project KPIs
• Implementing various development, testing, automation tools, and IT infrastructure
• Planning the team structure, activities, and involvement in project management activities.
• Managing stakeholders and external interfaces
• Setting up tools and required infrastructure.
• Defining and setting development, test, release, update, and support processes for DevOps operation
• Have the technical skill to review, verify, and validate the software code developed in the project.
• Troubleshooting techniques and fixing the code bugs
• Monitoring the processes during the entire lifecycle for its adherence and updating or creating new processes for improvement and minimizing the wastage
• Encouraging and building automated processes wherever possible
• Identifying and deploying cybersecurity measures by continuously performing vulnerability assessment and risk management
• Incidence management and root cause analysis
• Coordination and communication within the team and with customers
• Selecting and deploying appropriate CI/CD tools
• Strive for continuous improvement and build continuous integration, continuous development, and constant deployment pipeline (CI/CD Pipeline)
• Mentoring and guiding the team members
• Monitoring and measuring customer experience and KPIs
• Managing periodic reporting on the progress to the management and the customer

 Development

• Help organizations solve problems related to Microsoft technologies.
• Must know how to use development tools such as Visual Studio, SharePoint and .NET Framework.
• Develop and deploy Microsoft technologies.
• The professional must resolve issues related to cloud development, such as the Windows Azure Platform.
• It is the Microsoft Certified Professional Developer task to resolve issues relating to programming languages.
• The developer must optimize network performance by using refactoring databases and profiling applications. They should have a strong understanding of technologies such as Visual Studio and other applications.
• The professional must develop Internet-based applications and systems.
• Must define detailed software development processes and use data structures and other advanced programming techniques to develop system and application software.
• The developer should perform tasks to troubleshoot issues relating to testing and development

 Communication

• Must be able to communicate well
• Able to influence decision making process based on best practices and experience
• Must be able to work with the development team, suppliers, clients, other technical resource, business representatives and management to identify and solve business challenges which require IT solutions

Other

Minimum Requirements (Experience & Qualifications)

• 5 years' experience as .NET Developer
• Ceritfied Azure Developer certification
• Certified Microsoft Dev Ops s tification

Required Competencies

• Meeting Timescales
• Following Procedures
• Managing Tasks
• Taking action
• Upholding Standards
• Producing Output
• Interacting with people
• Establishing rapport
• Examining information
• Team working
• Verbal and numerical reasoning ability