DevOps Engineer(Retail IT Development, Delivery Engineering) at Allan Gray Proprietary Limited

Role Summary:

As DevOps Engineer, you will work alongside the Development teams, developing and implementing CI/CD Automation techniques and tools to improve the performance, stability and reliability of the pipelines.

There is also a strong emphasis on supporting feature teams to grow their own DevOps skills and take on more of their own production operational support. There is a dedicated production support team that handles the majority of production issues, but there will also be a need to occasionally respond to after-hours issues on an ad-hoc basis.

Job Responsibilities

• Build out CI/CD processes to improve test isolation and performance.
• Research, develop and implement approaches to allow automated and isolated testing against legacy and 3rd party systems.
• Maintain and support the CI/CD infrastructure, including Kubernetes, Gitlab and in-house tooling.
• Actively work to improve our tools and processes to increase overall developer efficiency.

 

Requirements

• Minimum of 2+ years software development experience
• Basic understanding of server infrastructure, including virtualisation, networking, etc.
• Hands on experience with the following engineering practices:
  • Continuous Integration
  • Continuous Delivery
  • Linux
  • Container/orchestration tools (Kubernetes, Docker, Ansible)
• Knowledge of computer science fundamentals in object oriented design, data structures and algorithms and proficiency in at least one modern programming language.
• Experience in working within a microservices environment across multiple teams using agile methodologies

 

Education

• Tertiary Qualification in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems or related technical discipline