Linux / DevOps Engineer at Rand Merchant Bank

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