Senior DevOps Engineer at BMW Group South Africa

Senior DevOps Engineer 

Applications close: 30 November 2020

If you have not received any response from us within 4 weeks of your application, consider it to be unsuccessful. We are looking for a Snr DevOps Engineer to join our team of experienced software developers.

If you have a great understanding of Java/Openshift/Kubernetes or any Container Orchestration/AWS and also the following experience then please apply;

• scripting knowledge with an aim at infrastructure as code is beneficial
• for developing and configuring systems to deploy, host, monitor and run various applications across both cloud and on premise solutions
• understanding of delivering pipelined based automation for CI/ CD across the SDLC
• on creation and facilitation to achieve Operations Support, automated end to end monitoring of services and data checks across multiple applications
• with the processes and techniques for logging, monitoring and following up on production incidents
• ensuring that Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are known and communicated to the feature team and other stakeholders
• understanding of automated monitoring to achieve various outcomes based on system wide SLAs
• to provide helpdesk support for end-users in Germany and World-wide
• Development of features in collaboration with external development partners in Munich.
• Travel to Munich
• Meet with end users and gather requirements.
• Identify common sources of end-user errors and propose improvements
• Develop systems solutions in line with quality and delivery requirements
• Enforce code quality based on set standards (Code Quality Assurance)
• System testing/parallel runs
• System implementation focused on implementing system wide requirements for infrastructure and monitoring
• Troubleshoot defects reported by end-users
• Assist in resolving issues escalated by helpdesk
• Stand-by availability on a rotation basis for user support during business hours
• KPI Assessments & Monitoring
• Release Management
• Create user stories for DevOps issues & MongoDB & AWS
• Code quality checks before deployments
• Non-Functional testing and monitoring

Required working experience:

• Software Development / DevOps Engineering (2 year+)
• Helpdesk/Support integration experience (1 year+)

Experience with the following technologies are important:

• Experience in APM as well as Log Aggregation like Dynatrace, Grafana, Datadog or other monitoring systems
• NoOps and/or GitOps
• JAVA EE / JAVA (exposure)
• Scripting and pipelining
• Service Now, ITSM or similar Ticket Management Systems
• Restful services
• CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment) management and Automation
• Build Tools (Maven/Gradle/Gulp/Grunt/Webpack )
• SQL (Oracle, Postgres or DB2) and No-SQL (MongoDB/DynamoDB)
• TDD (Test-Driven Development) / BDD (Behaviour-Driven Development)

Advantageous:

• ITIL (or similar) certification
• AWS DevOps experience
• Working in an Agile Environment
• IoC / Dependency Injection
• Python, Typescript, NodeJS