DevOps - Midrand, South Africa - AdaptIT

AdaptIT

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Midrand, South Africa

2 weeks ago

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Thabo Mthembu

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Description

Listing reference:
adapt_000136
Listing status: Online-
Position summary

Industry:
IT & Internet

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Job category:IT and Telecommunications
Location:Midrand

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Contract:Permanent
EE position:Yes
About our company

A provider of leading specialised software and digitallyled business solutions that assist clients across targeted industries.
Introduction
The purpose of the DevOps Engineer is to manage build and release pipelines. Setup and manage local environments as well as client targets for deployments. The DevOps Engineer is further responsible for securing target environments, managing continuous software updates, and keeping pace with security technologies relevant to this team, enabling innovative cloud architecture, DevOps processes and help scale the efforts of the development teams.
Job description

DevOps Strategy

Work closely with the development and infrastructure teams to craft a technical vision.
Work with the teams to set to pragmatic goals to meet the technical vision.
Help drive the technical strategy related to software distribution.
Assist teams to meet their goals.
Encouraging and building automated processes wherever possible.
Selecting and deploying appropriate CI/CD tools.

Software Distribution

Ensure flawless integration with both internal and external systems.
Remove all technical impediments organizationally related to software distribution.
Collaborate with all stakeholders to ensure endtoend quality of software distribution.
Implementing various development, testing, automation tools, and IT infrastructure.
Setting up tools and required infrastructure to distribute software.

Continuously Process Improvement- Continuously improve the process of software and infrastructure delivery and software

distribution.- Strive for continuous improvement and build continuous integration, continuous

development, and constant deployment pipeline (CI/CD Pipeline).

DevOps Documentation
Communicate and document technical software distribution ideas and direction across the

organization.- Write and maintain software distribution documentation.

Defining and setting development, test, release, update, and support processes for DevOps

operation.
Mentorship / Training

Provide mentorship and guidance to team members.
Managing periodic reporting on the progress to the management and the customer.
Perform internal training for technical staff as required.
Mentor junior resources on specialised knowledge.

Key Competencies

Technical Skills
Groovy / Java programming language
Knowledge of USSD or Mobile Network Elements (HLR, MSC, GMLC)
My SQL
Micro services
API Integration skills
Networking (firewalls, routers, loadbalancers)
API Integration skills
SOAP protocol
SCTP Protocol
Diameter Protocol
Linux system administration (RedHat/Centos, Apache/NGINX, MySQL/MariaDB/MongoDB,

Bash).- Scripting (e.g. Bash, Python, Perl)

Shell scripting ability for system administration.
Novice in Linux command line tools.
Novice in Groovy
Knowledge of networking protocols, technologies, and APIs (TCP/IP, HTTP, XML, JSON).
Experience in reporting and monitoring tools such as Grafana, Prometheus Python etc.
The C programming language
Be familiar with 3GPP specification standards (namely LCS AP, LPP and LPPa)
ASN.1 specification language

Soft Skills

Strong verbal and written communications in English
Strong team player
Excellent customer service skills, problemsolving, and a strong sense of urgency.
Ability to multitask and prioritize work in a fastpaced environment.
Time management

Living the Values

Ensuring compliance with all applicable policies, regulations, standards, and governance

requirements- Treating all people fairly and consistently, and with dignity and respect

Being ethical, honest, and sensitive in all dealings
Communicates in a positive manner resulting in action.
Collaboration, great team members, help relieve bottlenecks by assisting coworkers, as

necessary.- The ability to think big picture, to look at the big picture and identify what makes sense.

Minimum requirements

Qualification and Experience Requirements

BSc/BA/BCom in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field or comparable

certifications or experience years' experience as DevOps or related experience.

Technology product certifications desired e.g. Java, DEVOPS or similar.
A high degree of interest, experience, and certification in Linux
A tertiary Engineering or Computer Science degree or diploma

years plus experience in supporting medium to large scale production systems (mission

critical years plus experience providing L1/L2 technical support