DevOps Engineer at Momentum

About the job
Role Purpose
Developing automated solutions for operational aspects such as on-call monitoring, performance and capacity planning, disaster response, while complementing continuously delivery and infrastructure automation. Further, responsible for availability, latency, performance, efficiency, change management, monitoring and emergency response.

Responsibilities and work outputs

•          Responsible for the automation, enablement, availability, performance, monitoring, and incident response, among other things, of the platforms and services that our company runs and owns.
•          Set of general requirements like diagrams, dependencies of other services, monitoring and logging plans, backups and possible high availability setups.
•          Set rules, by creating the tools needed to automate all the processes. (Change Management and Deployments).
•          Focus on alignment to business outcomes.
•          Ensuring that the DevOPS phases are implemented, adhere to and continuously monitored for effectiveness .
•          Continuously improve observability to ensure the uptime and reliability of our applications and infrastructure.
•          Comfort with frequent, incremental code testing and deployment.
•          Working closely with architects and developers.
•          Collaborating with the relevant developer to report, troubleshoot, and repair operational issuesand performing and automating software deployments.
•          Create / use infrastructure for implementing, administering cloud services and deployments.
•          Implement and maintain information security best practices for all production systems that run custom in-house applications.
•          Monitor infrastructure and services to maximise uptime.
•          Troubleshoot and help to resolve production issues to ensure systems and devices run smoothly.
•          Identify ideas to improve system performance, best practises, cost effectiveness of services and impact availability.
•          Work with DevOps Manager and team members to develop accurate work estimates on work packages.
•          Liaise with foundation, database and platform Subject Matter Experts to automate installations and enhance the monitoring and maintenance of their disciplines
•          Provide authoritative, expertise and advice to clients and stakeholders.
•          Build and maintain relationships with clients and internal and external stakeholders.
•          Deliver on service level agreements made with clients and internal and external stakeholders in order to ensure that client expectations are managed.
•          Participate and contribute to a culture which builds rewarding relationships, facilitates feedback and provides exceptional client service.
•          Develop and maintain productive and collaborative working relationships with peers and stakeholders.
•          Positively influence and participate in change initiatives.
•          Continuously develop own expertise in terms of professional, industry and legislation knowledge.
•          Contribute to continuous innovation through the development, sharing and implementation of new ideas.
•          Take ownership for driving career development.
•          Contribute to the financial planning process within area.
•          Identify opportunities to enhance cost effectiveness and increase operational efficiency.
•          Manage financial and other company resources under your control with due respect.
•          Provide input into the risk identification processes and communicate recommendations in the appropriate forum.

Competencies required

•          Communication skills
•          Problem-solving skills
•          Interpersonal skills
•          Critical thinking
•          Business acumen
•          Planning and Organising

Experience and Qualifications

•          Relevant 3-year IT qualification or equivalent
•          LPI certification
•          2 - 5 years' experience as a Developer, Tester or System Administrator
•          3 - 5 years's experience in a DevOps environment
•          Insurance industry experience (desirable)
•          Agile software development practices and tools (Atlassian, JIRA)
•          Proficient with technologies used within the business (MMI-specific list)
•          Minimum 1 object-oriented and 1 scripting language (PowerShell, Bash, Python)
•          Linux / Unix experience
•          Online version control systems (Subversion, GitHub, Bitbucket)
•          Java application build processes and tools (CI/CD, including Ant, Gradle, Jenkins, and Artifactory)
•          Monitoring and alerting tools (Alerta, Selenium, Prometheus, InfluxDB, Elastic Stackt, cloudwatch, cloudtrail, xray)
•          Configuration management and containerisation tools (Terraform, Chef, Puppet, Salt, Ansible, Docker, Mesos or similar technologies)
•          Cloud server environment administration (Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Azure, Openstack)
•          Data integrity, security and continuity of business
•          Common data stores, both relational and NoSQL
•          Knowledge of IPv4 networking, web protocols and Linux/Unix systems
•          Knowledge and experience in microservices or service-oriented architectures (SOA and REST)

Location

• The above-mentioned position is currently available in the Investodepartment at our Momentum Life business unit based at our office in Centurion

Should you not be contacted within 2 weeks, please consider your application unsuccessful