DevOps Engineer (Cape Town)

Responsibilities/Tasks:

• Design, development, implementation, migration and support of a comprehensive build and release management process and technical solution to support the development processes, using existing tools as a starting point, but building on the same or other open source, and possibly commercial tools, moving forward.
• Support the adoption of Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration, Test-Driven Development, and Agile best practices, processes, and tools.
• Design and develop features for build and test and deployment systems (from development stage to production).
• Perform support and maintenance and troubleshooting of the various development tools / systems.
• Ensure the uptime and availability and performance of all components of the solution.
• Support program and project specific requirements that may arise.
• Perform system build and release when assistance is required – this is key to identifying areas of improvement.
• Scan, monitor and alert all security vulnerabilities in our developed code
• Mitigate security vulnerabilities tin the Development environment
• Perform Database related task ie Installation , monitoring, tuning, Data migration etc
• Some afterhours work will be required from time to time.

Essential Minimum Requirements

• BSc or B.Eng in Computer Science, or ND:IT or relevant work experience
• 3+ years of experience in an enterprise IT development environment
• 2+ years of experience in DevOps – Automation, Scripting, building CI/CD pipelines
• 2+ years of experience in Linux based operating systems
• 2+ years of experience in bash scripting
• 1+ year of experience with a provisioning tool like ansible, puppet or chef
• Solid understanding of networking

At least one of the following

• 3+ years of experience using IBM WebSphere and WSADMIN scripting

Or

• 3+ years of experience in the role of a DB2 DBA

Or

• Experience in the role of DevSecOps
• 1+ year of experience in cybercrime countermeasures and cyber security assessments
• 1+ years of experience in firewalling/security
• 1+ years of experience in code scanning for security vulnerabilities
• 1+ years of experience in software security tools like Sonar, Fisheye, Nexus Lifecycle
• 2+ years of experience working with an artifact repository like Nexus or Artifactory

Advantageous skills and experience

• Experience in working with Jenkins
• Experience in working with Git
• Experience in working with Jira/bitbucket/confluence
• Experience in we)
• Experience in working with XL-deploy
• Experience in working with Graphing/logging (Kibana, grafana, logstash)

Personal Profile

• Self-starter and self-motivated
• Successful track record as a technical professional who is resourceful and innovative
• Flexible and good teamwork
• Strong attention to detail
• Results-oriented