DevOps Engineer - Pretoria at Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)

About the job:

The CSIR has a vacancy for a DevOps Engineer in the e-Government Impact Area within the Next Generation Enterprises and Institutions Cluster. The incumbent will be responsible to design, build, test and maintain the infrastructure and tools that e-Government’s software development teams require for speedy and reliable software development and delivery. This position is based in Pretoria (Hybrid).

Key responsibilities:

• Design, develop, maintain and support CI/CD templates, processes, tools and pipelines;
• Work across disciplines with developers, researchers and experts to deliver high-technology software solutions for clients;
• Support cross-functional software teams in adopting DevSecOps, CI/CD, automation, test data management; software deployment and management;
• Work with system administrators and operations to monitor and maintain software deployments across multiple environments (dev, QA, production);
• Work with developers to build effective CI/CD automation pipelines, delivery and deployment processes, and software management and maintenance processes;
• Manage container orchestration software (docker, k8s);
• Implement automated security testing; and
• Contribute to technology research outputs, such as scientific conference papers and journal articles, in selected topics of interest.

Qualifications, skills and experience:

• A Bachelor’s degree in computer/electronic engineering, computer science, information technology or related field with at least four years’ practical experience in professional DevOps and software development, particularly on large, complex technology products/solutions/systems;
• An Honours degree will be advantageous;

Knowledge and/or experience in the following is required:

• DevOps;
• Software development;
• Full software lifecycle;
• CI/CD and automation;
• Automated testing;
• Docker;
• Kubernetes;
• Programming/scripting in Python;
• Linux shell scripting (sh/bash);
• Linux system configuration;
• Building, testing, packaging, configuring, deploying, monitoring and maintaining production software including web applications, web servers, database servers (postgresql, mariadb, mongodb), application servers (Java and node.js)
• Agile/Scrum; and
• Test-driven development.

Experience with the following would be advantageous:

• DevSecOps;
• Web and mobile application development;
• Backend development;
• Digital government, Health informatics and Digital Health systems;
• Information security;
• System architectures and design;
• Interoperability and system integration;
• Research and publication of scientific articles; and
• Any other programming languages. 
• All international qualifications require an evaluation report / certificate issued by the South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA).

Closing date: 22 November 2023