Cloud DevOps Engineer – Johannesburg needed at Affirmative Portfolios
Job title : Cloud DevOps Engineer – Johannesburg
Job Location : Gauteng, Johannesburg
Deadline : May 19, 2024
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YOUR DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES
The key focus areas of this role are:
- Be hands-on with the tools and collaborate with multiple product squads to deliver collective
- outcomes, covering the following:
- Implement platform provisioning and maintenance solutions, e.g., setting up cloud platform
- resources, middleware configuration, databases, etc with IaC.
- Implement release engineering solutions, e.g., setting up release pipeline, release notes,
- application deployment, etc.
- Implement operational workflow and orchestration solutions, e.g., job scheduling, file
- transfer, etc.
- Implement business continuity solutions, e.g., monitoring, backup, recovery, etc.
- Implement workforce computing solutions, e.g., provisioning end-user computing
- resourcing, identity & access management, etc.
- Implement operations automation using configuration and orchestration toolsets, as well as
- scripting frameworks.
- Promote adherence to engineering standards and best practices.
- Develop CICD pipeline using various tools such as Azure Bicep, ARM template and Powershell
- Promote timely feedback to drive continuous improvement, automation, and focus on value
- delivery.
- Assume technical accountability for the successful implementation of changes.
- Assess and manage technical risks, ensuring the non-functional requirements are being captured and
- met.
- Assist root-cause analysis of support incidents and issues.
- Assist your team in tracking application issues and provide clear feedback on potential changes or
- improvements where applicable.
- Identify, analyse, and support the resolution of application issues with internal and external parties.
- Support team leads and members on all technical matters to achieve team outcomes.
- Contribute the realization of the technical vision of the IT products that are being built, ensuring
- alignment to enterprise quality assurance and governance practices, be an advocate of DevSecOps
- practices.
YOUR KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ATTRIBUTES
Knowledge acquired awareness and/or experience
- Minimum 1 year or more with Azure cloud infrastructure setup and Infrastructure as Code (IAC).
- Minimum 1 year of experience in Azure Cloud DevOps engineer role with Bicep.
- Experience with various DevOps concepts, tools, and technologies.
- Experience with CI/CD and related toolsets, good understanding with Azure DevOps.
- Experience with operations integrations (e.g., system integrations via API, file transfer, etc.).
- Experience in Agile framework supporting CI/CD processes.
- Experience with infrastructure and network management (e.g., system patching, middleware
- upgrade, monitoring, etc.)
- Experience with local data centre resource management and setup.
- Basic understanding of security and vulnerability management (e.g., firewall configuration, endpoint
- upgrade, security patching, etc).
- Industry / business knowledge of the Australian Insurance market (preferably with experience of
- General Insurance) is highly desirable.
Skills acquired awareness and/or experience
- Skills in infrastructure/network fundamentals, administrative toolsets, and scripting.
- Ability to perform technical work breakdown and estimation.
- Ability to configure and to deploy network and cloud infrastructure resources.
- Ability to configure CI/CD toolsets such as Azure DevOps or equivalent.
- Ability to implement modern configuration and orchestration management toolsets (e.g., Puppet,
- Ansible, Chef, etc)
- Ability to configure and to leverage modern work tracking toolset (e.g., Azure Boards, Jira).
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, and the ability to articulate, advocate and
- influence team culture and bring people on the journey.
Qualifications (Formal study undertaken and completed)
- Tertiary qualification in Computer Science or related Technology discipline preferred.
- Azure and/or DevOps related certifications are highly desirable.
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