DevOps Lead Engineer at Momentum

Role Purpose    

• Develop and execute a Development Operations (DevOps) strategy to ensure quality software deployments and overall application health and performance.

Requirements    

• 2-4 years experience as a Senior Software Engineer (Developer) or Technical Lead
• 8-10 years overall experience as a Software Engineer (Developer) or equivalent
• Insurance industry experience
• IT qualification or a Postgraduate qualification in a related field
• Cloud training or certification
• Good first line support skills required
• Experience with AWS (S3, DMS, EKS, EC2, RDS)
• Knowledge of Agile or Kanban or related methodologies
• Knowledge of data integrity, security and continuity of business
• Good understanding of Jenkins and Gitlab pipelines
• Good understanding of Kubernetes and Websphere
• Good understanding of Grafana, ELK stack and TICK stack
• Python background required
• Ansible background required

Duties & Responsibilities    

• Set DevOps best practices for the technology team, enabling them to implement these practices in their daily work.
• Teach and mentor DevOps to other engineers within the technology team.
• Conduct tool research, evaluation, proof of concept, installation, configuration and training.
• Ensure both development and operationally focused teams work seamlessly as one combined, end-to-end team.
• Design Continuous Integration processes, tools and execution includes test frameworks, solution quality analysis Design, promote, and support services.
• Oversee the build and versioning of solution releases.
• Document, implement and automate (where possible) deployment processes that entail packaging releases, pushing releases and executing installs.
• Support infrastructure for implementing, administering services and deployments.
• Work with developers to implement continuous integration pipelines.
• Implement and manage centralized development tools.
• Oversee OS upgrades, patch installation, and application installations.
• Monitor infrastructure and services to maximize uptime.
• Troubleshoot and help to resolve production issues.
• Perform root cause analysis.
• Review technical documentation.
• Ensure team can independently install, customize and integrate commercial software packages.
• Work with experienced team members to conduct root cause analysis of issues, review new and existing solutions and/or perform unit testing.
• Facilitate requirements, design and build reviews.
• Identify ideas to improve system performance and impact availability.
• Resolve complex integration/system issues Partner with experienced team members to develop accurate work estimates on work packages. xceptional client service.

Competencies    

• Business Acumen
• Client/ Stakeholder Commitment
• Drive for Results
• Leads Change and Innovation
• Motivating and Inspiring Team
• Collaboration
• Impact and Influence
• Self-Awareness and Insight
• Diversity and Inclusiveness
• Growing Talent