DevOps Engineer LW2037 - Pretoria (Menlyn) at Mediro Recruitment

Summary

• A company based in Pretoria is looking for an DevOps Engineer to join their team on a long term contracting basis.

Description

• Run and maintain Codebeamer platform.
• Conduct with the feature team members, system analysis, design, development and testing for their assigned technical products or applications within the context of an agile/DevOps delivery model. Focusing of the automation of environments, infrastructure, build and deployment pipelines.
• Maintain, build, and setup new development tools and infrastructure for both on premise and cloud platforms.
• Automate the management of infrastructure patches and maintenance.
• Work on ways to automate and improve development and release processes.
• Work with QA Engineers to build disposable test environment and automated testing.
• Work with QA Engineers to ensure that systems are safe and secure against Cybersecurity threats.
• Work with Software Developers and Software Engineers to ensure that development follows established processes and works as intended.
• Improve integration of code between teams.
• Provide middleware support and configuration management for application dependant software i.e., Webservers, Java, Docker.
• Build tools to reduce occurrences of errors and improve Developer and customer experience.
• Develop scripts/monitoring to analyse and visualise important metrics about development processes.
• Develop scripts/monitoring to analyse and visualise important metrics about reliability and availability.
• Support operational excellence goals through strong operations knowledge. Resolve escalated support topics as part of tier-3 DevOps role to ensure the highest availability of critical applications.
• Plan and execute upgrade of existing applications, tools, and features. Create solutions and solve problems using a cloud-native toolchain, to ensure world-class uptime and business agility.

Minimum Requirements

Education:

• Relevant IT Degree
• 3 Plus years in DevOps Engineering Experience with at least 6 years in IT Industry

Role-specific knowledge:

• Operating Systems: Strong skills in Linux and Database (Oracle, PostgreSQL, mySQL)
• Languages: Scripting in Batch and Shell
• CI/CD: Version Control, Build and Deployment Pipeline Automation (e.g., GitHub Actions)
• Infrastructure: Familiar with AZURE
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform
• Security: Management of Keys, Certificates and Secrets
• Monitoring and log Management: InfluxDB and Dynatrace
• ITIL

Advantageous skills requirements:

• Appserver: Payara, Tomcat
• Webserver: Apache
• Containers: Docker, Kubernetes
• Incident-Problem management:  ITSM Suite / BMC Remedy
• Java Frameworks/Development

Experience:Between 3 - 5 Years

Closing Date:2023-08-25