Job Description

Closing Date: 2025-09-03
Job Type: Contract
Job Level: Skilled
Experience: Between 5 - 7 Years
EE/AA: No
Summary
Our Client in Menlyn is looking for a Senior DevOps to join their team. This is a Hybrid role for a 3-year contract.
Description

• Conduct with the feature team members, system analysis, design, development and testing for their assigned technical products or applications within the context of an agile/DevOps delivery model. Focusing on the automation of environments, infrastructure, build and deployment pipelines.
• Maintain, build, and set up new development tools and infrastructure for both on-premises and cloud platforms.
• Automate the management of infrastructure patches and maintenance.
• Work on ways to automate and improve development and release processes.
• Work with Software Developers and Software Engineers to build a disposable test environment and automated testing.
• Work with Software Developers and Software Engineers to ensure that systems are safe and secure against Cybersecurity threats.
• Work with Software Developers and Software Engineers to ensure that development follows established processes and works as intended.
• Improve integration of code between teams.
• Provide middleware support and configuration management for application-dependent software, i.e., Webservers, Java app servers, MQ brokers/servers, etc.
• Build tools to reduce occurrences of errors and improve the Developer and customer experience.
• Create and maintain automated deployment pipelines to maintain quality control and deployment agility.
• Prepare and document standard operating procedures and protocols as well as required system documentation.
• Develop scripts/monitoring to analyse and visualise important metrics about development processes.
• Develop scripts/monitoring to analyse and visualise important metrics about reliability and availability.
• Support operational excellence goals through strong operations knowledge. Resolve escalated support topics as part of the tier-2/3 DevOps role to ensure the highest availability of critical applications.
• Plan and execute upgrade of existing applications, tools, and features.
• Create solutions and solve problems using a cloud-native and on-premises toolchain, to ensure world-class uptime and business agility.
• Plan and execute the upgrade of existing applications, tools, and features. Create solutions and solve problems using a cloud-native toolchain to ensure world-class uptime and business agility.

Minimum Requirements

• DevOps Engineer with 3+ years of experience in DevOps Engineering, and at least 6 years in the IT Industry, with a contract end date of December 2028 (Gauteng-based only), working in a hybrid environment.
• National Diploma or Degree in IT

Essential skills requirements:

• Operating Systems: Strong skills in Linux, CRON and Unix Filesystems
• Java Appserver: Glassfish, Glassfish Micro, Quarkus
• Webserver: Apache, Nginx
• Languages: Scripting in Batch and Shell, Java, PL/SQL
• CI/CD: Version Control, Build and Deployment Pipelines (Maven, GIT, Jenkins, Bitbucket, Sonar, Jira, GitHub, GitHub Actions, Container registries)
• Infrastructure: Familiar with Cloud - AWS or AZURE
• Interface Technologies: MQ
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation.
• Security: Management of Keys, Certificates and Secrets
• Monitoring: AppDynamics, Dynatrace, Grafana
• Log Management Alerting: ELK Stack or Splunk, Nagios, Kabana
• Operations, Incident-Problem management: ITSM Suite / BMC Remedy or ServiceNow

Frameworks:

• Front End: JavaServer Faces, Apache Struts
• Back End: Jakarta EE, PL/SQL
• Any additional responsibilities assigned in the Agile Working Model (AWM) Charter