Vacant Positions at Momentum

Requirements

• Relevant 3-year IT qualification or equivalent
• LPI certification (optional)
• And 3 years + experience in the DevOps environment.
• 1+ years optional experience as a Developer, Tester or System Administrator
• Insurance industry experience (desirable)
• Agile software development practices and tools (Atlassian, JIRA)
• Proficient with technologies used within the business (MMI-specific list)
• Minimum 1 object-oriented and 1 scripting language (PowerShell, Bash, Python)
• Linux / Unix experience (essential)
• Online version control systems (Subversion, GitHub, Bitbucket)
• Java application build processes and tools (CI/CD, including Ant, Gradle, Jenkins, and Artifactory)
• Monitoring and alerting tools (Alerta, Prometheus, OpsGenie, InfluxDB, Kibana, Cloudwatch)
• Configuration management and containerisation tools (Terraform, Chef, Puppet, Salt, Ansible, Docker, Mesos or similar technologies)
• Cloud server environment administration (Amazon Web Services)
• Common data stores, both relational and NoSQL
• Knowledge of IPv4 networking, web protocols
• Knowledge and experience in microservices or service-oriented architectures (SOA and REST)

Duties & Responsibilities

• Responsible for the automation, enablement, availability, performance, monitoring, and incident response, among other things, of the platforms and services that our company runs and owns.
• Continuously improve observability to ensure the uptime and reliability of our applications and infrastructure.
• Comfort with frequent, incremental code testing and deployment.
• Working closely with architects and developers.
• Collaborating with the relevant developer to report, troubleshoot, and repair operational issues and performing and automating software deployments.
• Create / use infrastructure for implementing, administering cloud services and deployments.
• Implement deployment processes that entail packaging releases, pushing releases and executing installs.
• Monitor infrastructure and services to maximise uptime.
• Identify ideas to improve system performance, best practises, cost effectiveness of services and impact availability.
• Work with DevOps Manager and team members to develop accurate work estimates on work packages and conduct root cause analysis of issues, review new and existing code and/or perform unit testing.
• Use Continuous Integration processes, tools and execution; includes test frameworks, code quality analysis.
• Troubleshoot and help to resolve production issues to ensure systems and devices run smoothly.
• Implement and maintain information security best practices for all production systems that run custom in-house applications.
• Produce technical documentation to create an understanding of products and processes.
• Implement innovative initiatives aimed at speeding up or synchronising processes to create efficiencies.
• Define and automate release train pipelines, build resilient systems and create repeatable processes.
• Create / use centralised development tools to create economies of scale.
• Perform OS upgrades, patch installation, and application installations to ensure systems are optimised.
• Independently install, customise and integrate commercial software packages.
• Contribute to requirements, and code reviews.
• Liaise with foundation, database and platform Subject Matter Experts to automate installations and enhance the monitoring and maintenance of their disciplines.
• Build and maintain relationships with clients and internal and external stakeholders.
• Deliver on service level agreements made with clients and internal and external stakeholders in order to ensure that client expectations are managed.
• Participate and contribute to a culture which builds rewarding relationships, facilitates feedback and provides exceptional client service.
• Positively influence and participate in change initiatives.
• Continuously develop own expertise in terms of professional, industry and legislation knowledge.
• Contribute to continuous innovation through the development, sharing and implementation of new ideas.
• Take ownership for driving career development.
• Contribute to the financial planning process within area.
• Manage financial and other company resources under your control with due respect.
• Provide input into the risk identification processes and communicate recommendations in the appropriate forum.
• Provide authoritative, expertise and advice to clients and stakeholders.
• Make recommendations to improve client service and fair treatment of clients within area of responsibility.