DevOps Engineer

Key purpose:

The primary focus of this position is to administrate, configure, monitor and maintain our continuous integration and source control areas. You will need to be helpful and supportive to your team and fellow developers. You join an energetic, focused and dynamic team.

Duties and responsibilities:

• Develop Frameworks to do the following:
• Build and Deploy Java Applications, JavaScript, containerised applications
• Jasper Report Deployments
• Oracle Stored Object Compilations
• Provision infrastructure with Terraform
• Source Control Management using:
• Subversion Edge
• GitLab
• Maintain on latest version
• Backup & Recovery
• Application Server Administration using:
• Weblogic, Tomcat and Docker
• Install & configure
• Monitor & Maintain
• Troubleshoot & problem solve
• Continuous Delivery Pipelines using Jenkins:
• ADF Deployments
• Java Spring Deployments
• Html / javascript Deployments
• Monitoring:
• Troubleshooting potential issues (Reactive / Proactive)
• Monitoring tools used
• Oracle Enterprise Manager 13C
• Nagios / icinga
• App Dynamics
• Graylog / ELK
• Google Cloud Operations
• Documentation:
• Document all processes and procedures, installation / configuration / upgrade processes
• Research & Development:
• Investigate and access new Tools to be used in DevOps Environment and their viability as well as their fit
• Think on an enterprise scale. I.E reuse, flexibility, fit for purpose, cultural fit within the company
• Ongoing process re-engineering to adapt continuous integration environment to technological changes
• Support Development teams with building processes and release management of new changes to production.

Qualifications, experience and skills:

• Matric
• Tertiary qualification in IT
• +- 3 Years experience in Linux, continuous integration (Jenkins), scripting in Groovy, Python and, Shell
• Strives for continuous improvement
• Works smart, not hard (DevOps has 4 team members supporting hundreds of servers across +- 20 technology types, and it is expanding quickly)
• Needs to have adopted DevOps as a culture
• Needs to embrace change rather than fear it
• The natural tendency to take ownership and responsibility
• Strong problem solving, effective planning and organisational skills
• Detail oriented
• Take responsibility for team failures
• Excellent communication skills
• You have a can do attitude
• Can cope under pressure
• Positive outlook on life
• Above all, be passionate about what you do