Product/ DevOps Engineer
R900 000 - R1 million per Annum
Johannesburg
The overall job purpose is to apply critical thinking & problem solving skills to contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle & quickly produce well-organised, optimized, and documented source code to deliver high-performing,
Scalable, Enterprise-grade Applications.
Job Description
DevOps
- Apply critical thinking, design thinking and problem solving skills in an agile team environment to solve technical problems (Front End, Back End OR Middleware) with high quality solutions.
- Contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle including evaluating 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.
- Support the development of CI / CD Pipelines (authoring & supporting CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins / similar tools and deploying to multi-site Kubernetes environments – supporting and managing your applications all the way to production).
- Use & configure modern observability techniques leveraging e.g. aggregated logging via ELK stack, metrics via Prometheus / Grafana / NewRelic and tracing using Zipkin/Jaeger.
- Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting e.g. Jenkins, Docker, Ansible, Kubernetes.
- Debug existing source code and polish feature sets.
- 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 & program teams (when required) to plan & manage the development lifecycle e.g. releases, risk management, testing, integration etc.
- Conduct reviews, performance monitoring & ongoing optimization and maintenance on applications.
- Stay ahead of the curve on emerging technologies and development practices and continuously evolve existing knowledge & skill in preparation for cross domain and other experiences e.g. Secure Side, Testing, Infrastructure solutions etc.
People
- Conduct peer reviews, testing, problem solving within and across the broader team.
- Support the people change teams in the development of user material (Customer, Employee & 3rd Party Adoption).
Risk & Governance
- 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 activity – applying critical thinking, problem solving & technical expertise to get to the bottom of major incidents.
Role/Person Specification
Education And Experience Required
- 3-8 years + experience.
- Relevant B-Degree in Computer Science preferred but not essential if minimum requirements of experience are met.
Experience & Practical Application In The Following Is Evident
- Automation.
- Messaging.
- Integration.
- Solutioning.
- SSL Security.
- CI/CD etc.
- Experience working in an agile environment.
- Excellent communication, analytical skills and decision making ability in collaborative environments.
- Excellent understanding of specific coding / scripting languages e.g. Java, C#, Python, Perl, JavaScript.
- Solid understanding of Object Oriented Design and ability to properly apply general design patterns and paradigms.
- Experience with test-driven development and domain driven design.
- Solid understanding of messaging protocols and web services like SOAP and REST.
- Experience with open-source relational databases.
- Knowledge of application server containers: Tomcat, Jetty, JBoss, NodeJS, IIS, .Net Core etc.
- Good understanding of frameworks and libraries like JavaScript, jQuery, TypeScript, HTML, CSS.
- Experience with CI / CD tools (like Jenkins, Bamboo, TFS, Azure DevOps) and Artifact Management (preferably Nexus).
- Ability to create and maintain sophisticated CI / CD pipelines.
- Strong understanding of version control and related concepts and techniques, particularly Git.
- Experience with appropriate unit testing framework(s).
- Excellent debugging and problem-solving skills.
- Comfortable with stubbing tools like wiremock and/or hoverfly.
- Experience with scripting languages like Bash and/or Python.
- Experience with Cloud platforms e.g. Azure, AWS & Google Cloud Platform.
- Familiar with OAuth, Open Connect ID and SAML, preferably with an understanding of AD / LDAP / Kerberos.
- Familiar with Containerisation technologies like Docker & or orchestrators like Kubernetes.
Competencies
- Team Working.
- Interpreting Data.
- Meeting Timescales.
- Taking Action.
- Producing Output.
- Checking Things.
- Following Procedures.
- Adopting Practical Approaches.
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