DevOps Engineer I - JHB at FirstRand Group

Job Description

To enable the continuous delivery of designing, developing, testing and releasing software frequently, faster and more reliably in an agile environment

• To ensure continuous delivery through the integration and deployment of automated software development
• To use lean thinking, to ensure continuous improvement and collaboration between development testing and operations
• Provide technical leadership, coaching and mentoring as well as technical guidance or system process expertise
• Evaluate new application packages and tools to perform research on best practices
• Plan and perform ongoing routine application maintenance tasks to assist in production support and improve performance
• Build a culture of collaboration between Analysts, Architects, Development, QA and Infrastructure ensuring optimal delivery
• Review modules for quality assurance and assist in defining DevOps and quality guidelines and standards
• Create technical design specifications
• Develop IT solutions to meet business requirements and translate technical requirements into test cases, test scenarios and scripts
• Build automated deployments using configuration management technology
• Document and complete knowledge transfer to production support
• Work with Release Management to ensure modules are production ready
• Document functions and changes to new or modified modules and test activities/results
• Assist in the development of user guides and training documentation for systems
• Participate in the development of contingency plans including reliable backup and restore procedures
• Assist in the development of disaster recovery plans with service providers
• Apply lean and agile principles on the project delivery pipeline to develop and deploy code
• Participate in IT project planning processes by creating and sharing development estimates and operational requirements to enable accurate planning with realistic timelines
• Perform script maintenance and updates due to changes in requirements or implementations
• Set up and maintain the test environments for both manual and automated testing