Dev Ops Engineer – JHB

JOB DESCRIPTION

Duration: 12 months contract

Work Location: Johannesburg

About the Area & Team:

The Clients team was conceived at the start of 2015. The team was formed to create new digital
experiences for customers and has a portfolio of applications that range from native mobile applications
for iOS and Android, to web-based portals and applications, to headless APIs.

The team expanded to Prague at the end of 2016. The Corp Tech Enablement team, is responsible for
development, extends, and maintains businesses applications, platforms, shared services, and
infrastructure for the CIB estate.

About the project:

• Problem to solve
• Solution/Deliverable
• Attractive Tech exposure
• Automation at scale
• Deployment automation frameworks
• Shared infrastructure
• Implement observability

Technologies: Terraform, Ansible, Helm, custom built solutions for automation.

Platforms: Azure DevOps, AWS, Rancher, Kubernetes, ELK, Redis, RabbitMQ, NewRelic, ServiceNOW,
SonarQube, JFrog (Artifactory & Xray)

Job Description / Responsibilities:

• Apply critical thinking, design thinking and problem-solving skills in an agile team
environment to solve technical problems with high quality solutions
• Contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle including: Evaluation, analysis,
problem definition, business requirements, solution development & provide
recommendations to enable the operational feasibility of solutions
• Quickly produce well-organised, optimized, and documented source code to deliver
technical solutions
• Ensure designs & solutions support the technical organisation principles of self-service,
repeatability, testability, scalability & resilience
• Apply general design patterns and paradigms to deliver technical solutions in alignment with
business best practices in mind
• Support the development of CI / CD Pipelines (authoring & supporting CI/CD pipelines in
Azure DevOps and deploying to multi-site Kubernetes, Cloud, and OnPrem environments)
 • Use & configure modern observability techniques leveraging ELK stack and metrics via
Prometheus / Grafana / NewRelic etc.
• Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting e.g., Azure DevOps, Docker, Ansible,
Kubernetes, Terraform.
• Debug and optimize existing pipelines
• Work with integrated teams and other developers to improve and evolve technical products
and services
• Align all application development & development process to Group Architecture &
Infrastructure guidelines
• Provide input into project & development teams (when required)
• Collaborate with teams to build fit for purpose solutions to steam-line application
development
• Conduct peer reviews, testing, problem solving within and across the broader team
• Identify technical risks and mitigate these (pre, during & post release)
• Update / Design all application documentation aligned to the organization technical
standards and risk / governance frameworks
• Participate in incident management & DR activities

Background and experience required:

• Industry Experience Minimum 4 years DevOps/Automation experience

• Relevant B-Degree in Computer Science preferred but not essential if minimum
requirements of experience & practical application in the following is evident:
• Automation
• Integration
• Solutioning
• CI/CD etc.
• Experience working in an agile environment
• Excellent communication, analytical skills and decision-making ability in collaborative
environments
• Understanding of specific coding / scripting languages e.g.: Python, JavaScript, Yaml, Json,
Terraform, Ansible
• Understanding of messaging protocols, API’s and SDK’s
• Understanding of open-source databases
• Experience with CI / CD tools (like Azure DevOps) and Artifact Management (preferably
JFrog Artifactory)
• Ability to create and maintain sophisticated CI/CD pipelines
• Understanding of version control and related concepts and techniques, particularly Git
• Excellent debugging and problem-solving skills
• Experience with Cloud platforms e.g., Azure, AWS & Google Cloud Platform
Mandatory Skills:

• Excellent communication skills

• University Degree or higher certificate in information technology
• Good knowledge of at least one scripting language (PowerShell, Bash, Python)
• Experience with infrastructure as code (preferably Terraform or Ansible)
• Knowledge of Web Services/Micro Services (RESTful)
• Excellent understanding of CI/CD
• Security-first mind-set
• Fundamental understanding of TCP/IP. DNS, TLS and load balancing
• Experience with Kubernetes and Helm
• At least basic Docker exposure
• Full stack application development experience is a strong advantage
• Self-starter and driven

Desired Skills:

• Experience in the following technologies is beneficial:

• Azure DevOps, Service Fabric, Redis, Rancher, ASP.NET, .Net Core, RabbitMQ, AWS
(certifications a +), Elastic stack, Git, API, Terraform
• Understanding of how CICD works for .net, java and node applications

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CANDIDATE: