IaC Developer at Ignition Group

The role: 

The Ignition Group is a proudly South African investment company focusing on Technology, Media, Telecommunications and Financial services. Our employees are always at the forefront of business technology and we count on them to use their knowledge and skills, to move our company from strength to strength.  As an IaC Developer you will have the exciting opportunity to design and build cloud infrastructure platforms using infrastructure as code methods. Show us what you know and we’ll return the favour. Work with some of the best minds in the industry.Embark on a knowledge adventure with us! 

The detail: 

Technical Thought Leadership and Collaboration Collaborate with stakeholders in project planning processes. 

• Define and implement efficient end-to-end provisioning of automation solutions. 
• Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to understand project objectives, gather automation requirements, design automated tests, troubleshoot issues, and implement scalable automation solutions. 
• Design and implement cloud solutions. 
• Write Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Industry standard tools and services. 
• Design and implement continuous delivery pipelines. 
• Integrate solutions with other applications and platforms outside the framework. 

Development 

• Responsible for cloud solutions design and delivery, cloud migrations and infrastructure automation across multiple platforms. 
• Develop blueprints for a secure and adoptable cloud framework including custom governance, security, identity management and operational controls. 
• Develop automation templates and other Infrastructure-As-Code(IaC) solutions to automate the provisioning and maintenance of large-scale environments and configuration management. 
• Customise IaC solutions for different environments e.g. development, testing, UAT, staging, production. 

General 

• Perform other related duties as assigned by management. 

Are you this person?  

DevOps 

• Perform other related duties as assigned by management. 
• Do you have DevOps experience? 
• Do you have experience with Terraform, Docker & Kubernetes? 
• Have you worked in cloud-based environments like Azure and AWS? 

 Software Development 

• Do you have a minimum of 5 years software development experience? 
• Do you have experience with integration-based web technologies (Web API, Rest API, Soap API) for integrating large web-based software solutions and products? 
• Have you worked with standard programming languages like C# and Java? 
• Do you know software development methodologies (Agile, SCRUM) and design techniques (Entity Relationship Diagramming, Data Flow Diagramming? 
• Can you master new technology quickly and to work in a constantly evolving environment? 
• Have you done any product development? 
• Do you have a working knowledge of Microsoft technology (.NET, WCF, ASP.NET/AJAX, WPF, XAML)?