DevOps Engineer at Nedbank

Location

Sandton, Johannesburg

Job Purpose

To contribute and drive the enterprise practice of DevOps and adoption thereof which includes the culture, automation practices and tooling of DevOps in the organisation. Perform assessments, analysis and design plans for adoption of the DevOps practice.

Job Responsibilities

• Influence and collaborate within functional areas and across teams to design and create Software Deployment Pipelines. This is across multiple squads.
• Liaise with vendors to assist in the procurement of BizDevOps enabling technologies and services.
• Design and build-out full life-cycle of selected BizDevOps technologies.
• Contribute to the design and/or development, testing and evaluation of systems and infrastructure (Infrastructure as Code and Cloud technologies)
• Participate in the creation of BizDevOps patterns and practices for the enterprise
• Ensure and understanding of information management, data integrity, and security
• Conduct On-boarding, training and coaching for BizDevOps full stack teams
• Assess teams’ maturity in the enterprise and assist them with steps to improve their software delivery over a pre-determined period
• Manage multiple concurrent objectives, projects, groups, or activities, making effective judgments as to prioritizing and time allocation.
• Maintain and facilitate compliance with company, security and regulatory standards
• Foster innovation within the BizDevOps team to assist the team to continuously improve
• Coach entry level BizDevOps engineers
• Support the achievement of the business strategy, objectives and values
• Stay abreast of developments in field of expertise
• Ensure personal growth and enable effectiveness in performance of roles and responsibilities
• Contribute to the Nedbank Culture building initiatives (e.g. staff surveys etc.).
• Participate and support corporate responsibility initiatives for the achievement of business strategy
• Seek opportunities to improve business processes, models and systems though agile thinking.

Essential Qualifications:

• Matric / Grade 12 / National Senior Certificate
• Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees

Preferred Certifications

• DevOps Certification, LPI, RHCE, RHCA, MCSE, MCSD,CSM,OCAJP,SCJA,OCPJP or any other technical certification

Minimum Experience Level 

• 4+ years as a Software Developer in either or all of the following: Web Development, Windows Services Development, Mobile Development, Application Development, Back-end         Development, Cloud Computing
• Or 4+ years as a Systems Administrator on multiple platforms on-premise and in the Cloud

Type of Exposure:

• Have an in-depth understanding of architecting, designing and the implementation of a DevOps tool chain for an SME business.
• Knowledge and experience of how to build a continuous integration, continuous delivery and continuous deployment pipeline with an emphasis on quality
• Application of knowledge of release strategies
• Good understanding of monitoring techniques
• An understanding of security and automation with regards to DevOps practices and patterns
• Management and integration of tooling relegated to DevOps practices in a Cloud environment
• Experience with distributed version control systems like Git and Mercurial, Subversion, TFS (VSTS), Azure DevOps
• Must be able to branch, merge, write, test, commit and deploy code
• Needs to understand feature toggling for driving business value
• Experience in an agile development environment using Scrum and/or Extreme Programming

Technical/Professional Knowledge

• Java Development with J2EE and/or Springboot knowledge (Intermediate)
• JavaScript Frameworks(Angular.js, React.js,Aurelia.js,Vue.js) (Intermediate)
• .NET (Intermediate)
• Microsoft ASP.NET, .NET CORE, C#, VB.NET (Intermediate)
• Terraform, Chef, Ansible, SlatStack or Puppet (Intermediate)
• Linux or Unix distributions RedHat Linux, Suse Linux, Devian, Ubuntu, AIX, SCO,HP/UX (Intermediate)
• Bash and/or PowerShell scripting (Intermediate)