DevOps Engineer I at Shoprite Group of Companies

Purpose of the Job    

• The Purpose of the DevOps Engineer I is to assist the DevOps Practice Manager in the DevSecOps Discipline with DevOps best practices, training, coaching, pipeline implementation, roadmap, and the roll out of DevOps standards and toolchain used by IT development and operation teams.
• This includes creating and maintaining both continuous integration, deployment, and release patterns using scripting languages to create templates for use by the team for all types of deployments and technologies used. 

Job Objectives    

• Implement best practice and technology standards and guidelines are defined, agreed and available to all teams.
• Consult with security team and implement all aspects of security within DevOps pipelines, tools and solutions to automate security aspects on security items.
• Implement and perform cybersecurity measures and continuously conduct risk assessment on the various DevOps processes within Shoprite.
• Provide occasional assistance to IT Operation DevOps Engineers with incidence management and root cause analysis on DevOps implementations.
• Implement the defined and set development, test, release, update, and support processes for DevSecOps operations.
• Assist IT teams with the implementation processes.
• Assist with the automation of provisioning infrastructure by using various scripting languages.
• Test automation processes, tools and best practices to assist QA Engineers and implementation teams with test automation scripts, including integration to test automation tools.
• Provide occasional assistance to IT Operation DevOps Engineers with incidence management and root cause analysis on DevOps implementations.
• Facilitate workshops in identifying DevOps capabilities and shortfalls within development and operations environments and propose DevOps maturity roadmap per team/technology.
• Partner with DevOps Engineers in IT Operations to implement coaching, mentoring, training and support with pipeline automation, configuration management and provisioning of Infrastructure as a Service.
• Assist the DevOps Practice Manager with updating and maintaining existing DevSecOps training material, the DevOps SharePoint site and the creation of new DevOps training material and DevOps documentation. 

Qualifications    

• Degree/Diploma in IT, Software Development, Information Systems, Computer Science or related field - (essential). 

Experience    

• 2 years’ relevant work experience in DevOps Engineering - (essential).
• Experience with specific exposure to mentoring and coaching a team emerging senior software DevOps Engineers - (essential).
• Expertise in a variety of SDLC tools as Atlassian Stack (Jira, Bitbucket) - (essential).
• Experience in a retail environment - (desired).

Knowledge and Skills    

• Knowledge and experience in both architecture and implementation-level software design -(essential)

Closing Date    

• 2026/02/02