PaaS Service: DevSecOps Engineer at Sanlam Group

What will you do?

As a DevSecOps Engineer, you will play a crucial role in assisting with:

• Management, implementation and configuration of application deployments to multiple target environments.
• Implementing, managing and configuration of environment, platform and application monitoring.  
• Constant investigation and configuration of the monitoring solution products to obtain best value for Business. 
• Change, Incident, Project and Release Management resources with reporting and provide consultation around runtime and deployment operations.

What will make you successful in this role?

• Manage and maintain application platforms to ensure stability, continued high performance of platforms and applications deployed thereon.
• Continual investigation into best practices, methodologies and tooling for deployment, DevOps, monitoring, release and configuration management and all other relevant disciplines.
• Documentation of the aforementioned investigation is compulsory.
• Build, manage and maintain application platforms and ensure that best practices and governance is adhered to in current and future environments. 
• Ensure that tooling and platform obsolesce is avoided and managed in the form of roadmaps and upgrades. 
• Support of the currently employed toolsets and process. 
• Facilitate the automation of deployment workflows and processes, as well as platform/infrastructure provision and maintenance.

Qualifications

• Matric
• Degree or Diploma in Information Technology/CompSci/Information Systems

Knowledge and Experience

Knowledge

• DevOps tooling including the following (or similar)
• XebiaLabs Deploy (Deployment Management) / XebiaLabs Release (Release Management)
• Atlassian JIRA (Issue tracking/work-piece Management) Atlassian Bamboo (Build Management) Atlassian BitBucket (Source Management)
• Application platform, maintenance, implementation and configuration of the following (or similar):
• Apache Tomcat
• Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)
• RedHat JBoss EAP (or Wildfly)
• Infrastructure/Application configuration management tooling including the following (or similar):
• Ansible
• Chef
• Puppet
• Foreman
• Rundeck 
• Under
• tand the:
• Concept of integration of web-based services and practical use of APIs, REST and SOAP services.
• Conceptual makeup of the SDLC and in particular, with regards to the implementation phase, the change in responsibilities based on level of agility. 
• Understanding of relationships and integration between host, operating system, platform and application layers. Knowledge of integration between application touch-points 
• such as directory services (ie LDAP), databases, load balancers and reverse-proxies are also beneficial.
• Understanding and practical exposure to the generally accepted CI/CD principles and makeup of the pipeline.
• Exposure to containerization concepts and  technologies such as the following:
• Docker (Swarm)
• Kubernetes
• OpenShift

Experience

• 2 - 5 years in the field of Information Technology
• 1 - 3 years runtime operations support 
• 1 - 3 years as a basic Linux user
• 1 - 3 years in deployment operations
• Exposure to scripting essential