Senior DevOps Consultant at Hexagon PPM

Overview

• We are searching for a Senior DevOps Consultant to join our Hexagon office in Newlands, Cape Town. In this role you will serve the Product Development team as a technical expert, building the infrastructure that supports the flow in a product from development to release, and making that release. We are looking for outgoing, productive and highly talented person, especially those who have a background in computer science, with DevOps experience, to join our talented team . Join the team that implements j5 software products and projects from beginning to end for our partners and customers all around the world.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with the Cloud Ops team and Product/Development team (within j5) to ensure close collaboration between Development and Operations
• Design and implement build, deployment, and configuration management
• Test implemented designs
• Build and test automation tools for infrastructure provisioning
• Handle code deployments in all environments
• Monitor metrics and develop ways to improve
• Be an active team member, attending scum sessions, and contribute towards backlogs and task assignments to each a collectively efficient product development and deployment environment
• Champion the Design, Build, Deploy, Own culture….to promote the “we own what we build and deploy” mentality
• Assist with test automation and ensuring quality of deployments is an integrated practice. This includes integrating security best practices into the dev/test/deploy process
• Promote proactive monitoring and performance tuning practices including full-stack service availability and telemetry data to support operational decisions
• Provide technical guidance and educate team members and coworkers on development and operations
• Brainstorm for new ideas and ways to improve development delivery
• Consult with peers for feedback during testing stages
• Build, maintain, and monitor configuration standards
• Maintain day-to-day management and administration of projects
• Manage CI and CD tools with team
• Meet periodically with Cloud DevOps team members to share challenges and technology trends to ensure a uniform delivery approach across development teams
• Assist with standards creation for Cloud Architecture and Deployment in conjunction with the Cloud Ops team to ensure those standards are integrated into software development processes
• Strive to reduce manual efforts by replacing with scalable Cloud-native automation
• Responsible for “cost to run” software applications in a SaaS environment. Ensure cost and efficiency for managing the deployment and ongoing operations of the application are integrated into all facets of the design and product development
• Document and design various processes; update existing processes
• Improve infrastructure development and application development
• Follow all best practices and procedures as established by the company

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS, engineering, software engineering, or related field.
• Minimum of 10 years overall IT/Technology/Operations/Software experience with a minimum of 5 years’ previous experience in combining development and operations into a DevOps framework and team model
• Experience with Windows and Linux infrastructures, database SQL (MS SQL), CI/CD tools, scripting such as JavaScript, PHP, Python, Perl, Ruby, .NET, Scrum/Kanban/SAFe, Agile workflow methodologies
• Experience with Puppet ( or Chef, Ansible, or other similar tools)
• Solid hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code concepts and tooling (ARM / Terraform / Cloud Formation)
• Up-to-date on the latest industry trends; able to articulate trends and potential clearly and confidently
• Experience in best practices with SecOps and cyber security is a strong plus
• Experience with Azure DevOps a plus
• Good interpersonal skills and communication with all levels of an organization
• Able to multitask, prioritize, and manage time efficiently
• Ability to be on-call and work remotely as needed
• Ability to travel as needed (not more than 10%)