DevOps Manager

EXPERIENCE, SKILLS, AND KNOWLEDGE

- Experience leading a team
- 3-4 years of experience working as a DevOps Engineer.- 3-year degree/diploma in the technology field.
- AWS DevOps Professional Certification.
- Good understanding of Agile processes.
- Practical experience working with automated deployments and source control.
- Ability to code and script.
- Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
- Process-oriented with great documentation skills.
- Knowledge of best practices and IT operations in an always-up, always-available service.
- Experience administering and deploying development CI/CD tools such as Git, Jira, GitLab, or Jenkins.

FAMILIARITY WITH THE FOLLOWING TECHNOLOGIES WOULD BE IDEAL
- 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.

KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS
1. Project Planning
- Participate in the processes of strategic project-planning meetings.
- Providing guidance and expertise on system options, risk, impact, and costs vs. benefits.
- Create and share operational requirements and development forecasts to allow timely and accurate planning of projects.

2. Development
- Responsible for developing and building IT solutions.
- Install 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.

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

4. Maintenance and Troubleshooting
- Responsible for routine application maintenance tasks.
- Create requirements and procedures for implementing routine maintenance.
- Troubleshooting existing information systems for errors and resolving errors.

5. Performance Management
- Evaluate existing applications and platforms.
- Give recommendations for enhancing performance via gap analysis, identifying the most practical alternative solutions, and assisting with modifications.

6. Writing software in line with industry standards and design patterns
- Guide and implement software and product design.
- Produce code in line with project requirements.
- Implement and maintain appropriate security standards.
- Perform and request code reviews.
- Write and maintain unit and functional tests.

7. Debugging software for optimum functioning
- Reproducing and locating the source of reported bugs and issues.
- Fix bugs and issues.
- Communicate errors and solutions to product owners.

INDIVIDUAL COMPETENCIES
- Accountability and Execution
- Adaptability
- Control and Efficiency
- Information Monitoring
- Initiating Action
- Optimizing Diversity
- Ownership
- Planning and Organizing
- Technical Knowledge
- Team Orientation