Job Description

Closing Date 2023/09/05
Reference Number MMH220915-5
Job Title DevOps Lead Engineer
Position Type Permanent
Role Family Information Technology
Cluster Momentum Health Solutions
Remote Opportunity Some of the time
Location - Country South Africa
Location - Province Gauteng
Location - Town / City Centurion
Introduction

Momentum Health Solutions, an entity of Momentum Metropolitan Holdings delivers sustainable, integrated health solutions that meet the needs of clients in the different segments and maximise lifetime client value. We build and maintain a culture of innovation, and create value through unique insights of how to achieve specific outcomes by using a defined set of Health capabilities.
Role Purpose Develop and execute a Development Operations (DevOps) strategy to ensure quality software deployments and overall application health and performance.
Requirements

• 2-4 years experience as a Senior Software Engineer (Developer) or Technical Lead

• 8-10 years overall experience as a Software Engineer (Developer) or equivalent

• Insurance industry experience

• IT qualification or a Postgraduate qualification in a related field

• Cloud training or certification

• Good first line support skills required

• Experience with AWS (S3, DMS, EKS, EC2, RDS)

• Knowledge of Agile or Kanban or related methodologies

• Knowledge of data integrity, security and continuity of business

• Good understanding of Jenkins and Gitlab pipelines

• Good understanding of Kubernetes and Websphere

• Good understanding of Grafana, ELK stack and TICK stack

• Python background required

• Ansible background required

Duties & Responsibilities

• Set DevOps best practices for the technology team, enabling them to implement these practices in their daily work.

• Teach and mentor DevOps to other engineers within the technology team.

• Conduct tool research, evaluation, proof of concept, installation, configuration and training.

• Ensure both development and operationally focused teams work seamlessly as one combined, end-to-end team.

• Design Continuous Integration processes, tools and execution includes test frameworks, solution quality analysis Design, promote, and support services.

• Oversee the build and versioning of solution releases.

• Document, implement and automate (where possible) deployment processes that entail packaging releases, pushing releases and executing installs.

• Support infrastructure for implementing, administering services and deployments.

• Work with developers to implement continuous integration pipelines.

• Implement and manage centralized development tools.

• Oversee OS upgrades, patch installation, and application installations.

• Monitor infrastructure and services to maximize uptime.

• Troubleshoot and help to resolve production issues.

• Perform root cause analysis.

• Review technical documentation.

• Ensure team can independently install, customize and integrate commercial software packages.

• Work with experienced team members to conduct root cause analysis of issues, review new and existing solutions and/or perform unit testing.

• Facilitate requirements, design and build reviews.

• Identify ideas to improve system performance and impact availability.

• Resolve complex integration/system issues Partner with experienced team members to develop accurate work estimates on work packages. xceptional client service.

Competencies

• Business Acumen

• Client/ Stakeholder Commitment

• Drive for Results

• Leads Change and Innovation

• Motivating and Inspiring Team

• Collaboration

• Impact and Influence

• Self-Awareness and Insight

• Diversity and Inclusiveness

• Growing Talent

Policy

We are committed to Employment Equity, diversity and inclusion when recruiting internally and externally. All appointments are made in alignment to our Employment Equity goals and we encourage people with disabilities to apply.

Momentum Metropolitan