DevOps Engineer Lead (Senior) at Santam Insurance

JOB DESCRIPTION

• The incumbent will form part of the IT4IT Team (the IT Support Team) and work with all the development teams (Guidewire, JDE, Microsoft, Java, etc.).
• This includes working specifically with Technical Architecture and Release & Deployment Management to support and maintain the IT Support technical infrastructure, DevSecOps processes & procedures. Specific emphasis for this role will be the support of the development teams, implementation of alerting & monitoring and the support of infrastructure and application components.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provide direction and guidance to Architects and Technical Specialists on ways to automate and improve the development, release management and production observation processes & procedures. This role will be responsible for the solution that is implemented and will have to sign off any solution developed.
• Oversee, manage and optimise the administration of infrastructure deployment, technical support processes, support procedures, deployments & releases, servers, nodes, databases, etc.
• Drive adoption of standards that are to be adhered to by software developers and testers to ensure that they follow established processes and works as intended.
• This will include co-ordination of the relevant training & certification in relation to the requirements of the roles.
• Identify opportunities for efficiency and improvements of hardware and software resource performance (CPU, Memory, Disk I/O, etc.) across all environments and take decisive action where potential business user impact is anticipated or experienced
• Team management and leadership

QUALIFICATIONS , KNOWLEDGE AND EXERIENCE

QUALIFICATIONS

• National Diploma / Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Informatics, Information Systems, Information Technology, Engineering field preferred

KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE

• Minimum of 10 years relevant experience within IT.
• Minimum of 5 years within a Lead role, managing complex hardware and software environments and teams.
• 5+ years’ software development experience in Java at a senior level.
• Solid experience with Docker, Atlassian Suite, Bamboo
• Solid experience in application development, support and release management
• Experience in messaging middleware, web services, SOAP, REST, SOA, ESB, SMTP, FTP, secure FTP
• Minimum 5 years experience working with and supporting complex systems deployed to cloud i.e. AWS