Practice Lead DevOps - Cape Town, South Africa - Vodafone

Vodafone

Verified Company

Cape Town, South Africa

1 week ago

Posted by:

Thabo Mthembu

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Description

Role purpose:

The purpose of this role includes the following responsibilities:
Design, scaling, and management of all BI eco-system platforms.
Maintaining and operating the data pipelines and processes.
Maintaining and operating controls that ensure a well-governed and compliant environment.
Maintaining and operating Service Management practices.
Provide strong leadership and steer team members in the right direction based on the division's strategy and goals.

Your responsibilities will include:

Lead, mentor, and grow a team of operations and DevOps specialists supporting the Data Enablement bi-ecosystem.
Implement practices, processes, and measures to continually assess, review and improve data platform performance following a continuous improvement approach.

Develop, establish, maintain, and optimize DevOps practices, processes, and measures (KPIs & SLAs) to manage and ensure SLAs and KPIs of services are maintained.

Establish, Implement, manage and control SQA (service quality agreements), vendor management, and performance management, and ensure value realization from these services for the BI ecosystem landscape all by SCM policies and procedures.

Contribute, guide, and develop the minimum capability to adhere to governance and compliance policies including regulatory requirements for the BI ecosystem landscape.

Acting as a technical authority, providing input and guidance into technical solutions and implementations.
Engage with various support teams & vendors to ensure that the data platforms are optimal and efficient.

Competently communicate and collaborate with multiple product lines, customers, and development teams for anything data related to the communication plan.

Conduct regular audits to ensure the platform aligns with the best design and operating practices.

Develop automation for the setup and maintenance of data platforms and ensure the software is always at OEM supported level.

Modernize data platforms to make them more sustainable, scalable, performant, and cost-effective.
Executing and managing operational projects to ensure delivery as per agreed timelines and scope.
Acting as a technical authority, providing input and guidance into technical solutions and implementations.

Ideally you should possess the following:
Matric/ Grade 12 is essential.
A 3-year IT or IS degree or diploma or related field is essential.
8+ years of overall IT experience with Big Data, Advance Analytics, Data Warehousing, and Business Intelligence.
Relevant certifications at a professional level are desirable.
Relevant cloud certification at the professional or associate level is desirable.

Service Management experience working closely with agile methodologies, such as Scrum, and Kanban, and with teams leveraging DevSecOps and Continuous Delivery / Integration.

Experience within the Analytics lifecycle practices like Data Pipelines, Data Processing, Data Storing, Data Operations, Data Management & Data Governance.

Experience in using a wide range of data technologies.

Experience in using a wide range of Cloud-native AWS or GCP data services including public cloud PaaS / IaaS, micro-services architectures, and APIs.

Closing date for Applications: 15 January 2023.
The base location for this role is
Midrand Vodacom Campus or Cape Town.
The Company's approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.
Vodacom is committed to an organizational culture that recognizes, appreciates, and values diversity & inclusion.