DevOps Engineer at Rand Merchant Bank

DevOps Engineer 

RMB is a market leader in Corporate and Investment Banking. Our biggest asset is our people. They come from many different backgrounds, bringing unique perspectives to finding solutions and solving challenges for our clients. At RMB our thinking digs deeper and sees further. It’s an approach we call Solutionist Thinking. With a can-do mindset that is considered and innovative, curious and resilient we unlock unique opportunities for our clients, society and our future. We seek people who create a culture of sharing and who champion honourable behaviour. Our people are smart, hard-working, self-motivated and have a passion for their work and the success of RMB. We offer a non-hierarchical, entrepreneurial environment where our people think and act like owners. We empower people, hold them accountable and reward exceptional performance.

All appointments will be made in line with FirstRand Group’s Employment Equity plan.

The Bank actively supports the recruitment and advancement of people with disabilities. We encourage that candidates voluntarily declare their disability and consult the Bank should they require reasonable accommodation

Role Purpose:               

• To liaise with various stakeholders to ensure specific applications are fully functional by providing oversight and support regarding daily operations and the future development and testing of the application

Responsibilities              

• Build and maintain professional working relationships with all stakeholders, displaying excellent abilities to initiate dialogue, listen, advise, influence and negotiate to achieve win-win outcomes
• Initiate meetings with key stakeholders to track progress, manage expectations and ensure stakeholders’ requirements are delivered
• Act speedily to resolve problems, queries and complaints
• Monitor the application to ensure it performs optimally within acceptable parameters
• Investigate, diagnose, resolve and/or appropriately escalate problems
• Provide clients with second-level support
• Ensure applications are maintained according to FRG and RMB’s governance, risk and security protocols and procedures
• Research and identify ongoing issues and trends
• Propose solutions to stakeholders
• Co-ordinate/implement and monitor agreed solutions
• Successful deployment of a change into the live environment with no comebacks or rollbacks
• Once the change has been finalised, deploy into the testing environment
• Support and oversee the testing of the change

Self-management:

• Demonstrates pride in the organisation’s brand, services and products by consistently delivering on the brands promise
• Plan and manage own workflow, anticipating obstacles, juggling priorities and following through on objectives within agreed time-frames and according to quality standards
• Stay relevant and up-to-date with legislations and new development
• Take ownership of personal career development, leveraging formal and informal opportunities
• Plan and manage own workflow, anticipating obstacles, juggling priorities and following through on objectives within agreed time-frames and according to quality standards
• Flag and debate issues constructively
• Promote collaboration in working with others to achieve shared goals
• Display skill at mentoring/coaching others and resolving conflict

Qualifications and Experience:                

• IT Diploma or equivalent (minimum MCSE)
• Scripting skills (e.g. Linux, Windows and SQL)
• Knowledge of code packaging and deployments

3-5+ years’ experience in an Linux Engineer/ DevOps Engineer role with experience in the below:

• RedHat Linux, Docker
• CI/CD Tools (Bamboo or Jenkins)
• Windows
• Shell scripting
• Control M/scheduling
• Automation exposure
• Agile methodology preferred