Senior DevOps Engineer at SUMMIT Africa Recruitment

SKILLS & REQUIREMENTS

• You will need to have 3-4 years of experience working as a DevOps Engineer.
• You will also require a 3-year degree/diploma in the technology field and an AWS DevOps Professional Certification.
• Good understanding of Agile processes, practical experience working with automated deployments, and source control, and ability to code and script.

The individual needs to have excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills and process-oriented with great documentation skills. Knowledge of best practices and IT operations in an always-up, always-available service, and experience administering and deploying development CI/CD tools such as Git, Jira, GitLab, or Jenkins.

• Container orchestration services - Docker, Kubernetes, Elastic Beanstalk
• Infrastructure as Code technologies - Terraform, Ansible.
• Agile software development in Python, Go, Java, JavaScript, Typescript.
• Significant experience with open-source operating system environments.

You will be responsible for reproducing and locating the source of reported bugs and issues, fix bugs, and issues and communicate errors and solutions to product owners. It is your responsibility to guide and implement software and product design, produce code in line with project requirements and implement and maintain appropriate security standards. Perform and request code reviews and write and maintain unit and functional tests.

PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT

• Key responsibilities include evaluating existing applications and platforms and to give recommendations for enhancing performance via gap analysis, identifying the most practical alternative solutions, and assisting with modifications.

MAINTENACE AND TROUBLESHOOTING

• You will be responsible for routine application maintenance tasks, create requirements and procedures for implementing routine maintenance and troubleshooting existing information systems for errors and resolving errors.

DEPLOYMENT

• Build automated deployments through the use of configuration management technology and be responsible for making modules ready for production, which entails moving them according to specific procedures and documenting knowledge transfer.

DEVELOPMENT

• You will be responsible for developing and building IT solutions and installing and configure solutions, implement reusable components, translate technical requirements, assist with all stages of test data, develop interface stubs and simulators, and perform script maintenance and updates.

PROJECT PLANNING

• Participate in the processes of strategic project-planning meetings, providing guidance and expertise on system options, risk, impact, and costs vs. benefits. You will create and share operational requirements and development forecasts to allow timely and accurate planning of projects.