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| Vodacom - South Africa |
Specialist : Dev Ops Engineer
Posting Country: South Africa
Date Posted: 04-Jun-2021
Full Time / Part Time: Full Time
Contract Type: Permanent
At Vodacom, we’re working hard to build a better future. A more connected, inclusive and sustainable world. As a dynamic global community, it's our human spirit, together with technology, that empowers us to achieve this.
We challenge and innovate in order to connect people, businesses, and communities across the world. Delighting our customers and earning their loyalty drive us, and we experiment, learn fast and get it done, together.
With us, you can be truly be yourself and belong, share inspiration, embrace new opportunities, thrive, and make a real difference.
Role Purpose
The DevOps Engineer role based within Technology.
The DevOps Engineer is responsible for delivering, maintaining, and optimizing infrastructure, database, and middleware capabilities to support and enable the development and operations of applications and solutions. This role is also responsible for reviewing solution designs, understanding their impact on application/infrastructure; building and implementing infrastructure and applications, and monitoring, maintaining, and supporting the operational environments.
In addition, the candidate in this role is responsible for providing technical expertise to team members and other technical/business areas.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Ensuring availability, performance, sustainability and accessibility of application systems/services
- Managing and ensuring SLAs and KPIs of services are maintained
- Ensuring necessary operational controls and governance are in place and policies to ensure alignment
- Managing and overseeing the service transition process of services into the production environment.
- Ensuring non-functional requirements are implemented with all features and user stories
- Monitor and maintain infrastructure performance, capacity and availability, providing 2nd and 3rd level support for the resolution of application and infrastructure-related incidents and problems
- Managing and remediating on security threats and vulnerabilities, and applying all required security controls in accordance with policy
- Ensuring effective monitoring of services and applications
- Identification and mitigation of risks for services in production
- Executing and managing operational projects to ensure delivery as per agreed timelines and scope
- Coordinating and executing of releases into production environments
- Acting as technical authority, providing input and guidance into technical solutions and implementations
- Troubleshooting and resolving incidents and defects within service SLAs
- Min 5 years’ experience in a similar role
- Min 5 years’ relevant experience in developing, deploying and / or administering infrastructure solutions
- Experience of current and emerging virtualization, infrastructure, cloud and containerization technologies such as AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, etc.
- Min 3 years’ experience in scripting(automation) and configuration management using tools such as Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Salt etc.
- Min 3 years’ experience building, managing and supporting AWS-based solutions and AWS native technologies
- Min 3 years’ experience working with programming and scripting languages, such as Ruby and Python or PHP
- Knowledge and experience of Web services, SOAP and RESTful interfaces, and XML
- Experience working closely with agile methodologies, such as Scrum, XP, and with teams leveraging DevOps and Continuous Delivery / Integration
- Strong understanding and working knowledge of IT management best practice frameworks, such as ITIL and COBIT
- Strong knowledge of automation frameworks and tools
- Strong knowledge and experience on AWS (Certification preferred)
- Financial Services and Telecommunications domain knowledge preferred
- Min 5 years’ experience in database technologies - RDBMS, e.g. MSSQL, PostGreSQL, Oracle, MySQL, etc
- Min 5 years’ experience and knowledge of IP networks and related solutions
- Excellent problem solving ability in complex environments
- Agile methodologies and techniques used in development of software
- Strong knowledge of Incident and problem management processes
- Experience in effective troubleshooting techniques
- Experience in managing and deploying .NET and java applications
- Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery methodologies, techniques and tools
- DevOps culture – applying relevant processes, practices and tools
- Cloud-native architectures, including public cloud PaaS / IaaS, micro-services architectures, APIs
- Strong problem solving skills and ability to adapt to new methods and processes
- Strong relationship building, persuasion, and collaboration skills that drives internal-and cross-team constructive feedback and support
- Understanding of both the Telecommunications and Fintech services markets and technology trends
- Experience in monitoring technologies and APM tools
- Experience in managing and maintaining HA solutions, and managing DRP environments
- Financial Services domain knowledge and experience
- Ability to lead and mentor team members
- Knowledge of AWS services - experience in building, managing and supporting AWS-based solutions and AWS native technologies
- Familiarity with agile software development in Go, C/C++, Java, JavaScript
- Familiarity with container orchestration services, especially Kubernetes
- Experience administering and deploying development CI/CD tools such as Git, Jira, GitLab, or Jenkins
- Significant experience with Windows and Linux operating system environments
- Experience with infrastructure scripting solutions such as PowerShell or Python
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Closing date for Applications: 25 March 2021
The base location for this role is, Midrand, Vodacom Campus
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.
Commitment from Vodacom
Vodacom is committed to attracting, developing and retaining the very best people by offering a flexible, motivating and inclusive workplace in which talent is truly recognized, developed and rewarded. We believe that diversity plays an important role in the success of our business and we are committed to creating an inclusive work environment which respects, values, celebrates and makes the most of people’s individual differences - we are not only multinational but multicultural too. At Vodacom you will have access to our excellent flexible benefits programme that you would expect from any global company.
