DevOps Technical Specialist - Centurion, South Africa - Momentum Corporate

Thabo Mthembu

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Introduction


Through our client-facing brands Metropolitan and Momentum,with Multiply (wellness and rewards programme), and our otherspecialist brands, including Guardrisk and Eris Property Group, the group enables businesses and people from all walks of life to achieve their financial goals and life aspirations.

We help people grow their savings, protect what matters to them and invest for the future. We help companies and organisations


Role Purpose


To ensure system stability and availability, through monitoring, automation, release management and incident response management, across both production and non-production systems.


Requirements:

years of experience in a DevOps or Developer Role

  • IT degree or relevant qualification
  • AWS certification preferred
  • Experience with Linux, UNIX and/or AIX operating systems.
  • Experience in automation and continuous integration.
  • Knowledge of DevOps
  • Experience with the following tools., Jenkins, Nagios, Grafana etc.).
  • 2 3 years experience in Software development and scripting (e.g. Ansible, bash, terraform etc.).
  • 2 3 years experience with large IT systems and operations (understand the link between operations & SDLC).

Duties & Responsibilities

  • Ensure the infrastructure is kept up to date as the stack evolves and enable stability and resilience in all environments by troubleshooting existing problems and suggesting solutions.
  • Use Continuous Integration processes, tools and execution.
  • To ensure fast and effective resolution of system issues across all environments. Production and nonproduction systems.
  • Providing secondline support across all environments.
  • Monitor all the systems across all environments and react to alerts.
  • Maintain and improve deployment pipelines with the use of related technologies and tools (e.g., Jenkins, Nagios, Grafana etc.).
  • Establish and monitor performance levels of systems using tools like Nagios, Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana
  • Maintain and improve the monitoring of systems.
  • Release management process
  • Assist in the Change management process for all developments.
  • Assist stakeholder/team on standby.
  • Strong grasp of automation tools and technologies.
  • Analysing trends to assist in any upgrades according to best practice. E.g., troubleshooting
  • Oversee upgrades, patching, and installations across environments.
  • Build and maintain relationships with clients and internal and external stakeholders.
  • Continuously develop own expertise in terms of professional, industry and legislation knowledge.
  • Contribute to continuous innovation through the development, sharing and implementation of new ideas.
  • Take ownership for driving career development

Competencies

  • Communication Skills
  • Teamwork
  • Collaboration
  • Analytical skills
  • Project management skills

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