Description

JOB DETAILS

Job Responsibilities

The DevOps Engineering job is responsible for developing automations across the Technology delivery lifecycle including construction, testing, release and ongoing service management, and monitoring of a product or service in a pod within a Technology team.

They will be required to continually enhance their skills within a number of specialisms which include CI/CD, automation, pipeline development, security, testing, and operational support.

This role will carry out some or all of the following activities:

•Provide support across the end-to-end delivery and run lifecycle, utilising their skills and expertise to carry out automation activities in software development, testing and operational support activities with the ability to move between these according to demand.

•End to end accountability for a product or service, identifying and developing the most appropriate Technology solutions to meet customer needs as part of the Customer Journey

•Liaise with other engineers, architects, and business stakeholders to understand and drive the product or service’s direction.

•Establish a digital environment and automate processes to minimize variation and ensure predictable high-quality code and data.

•Analyse production errors to define and create tools that help mitigate problems in the system design stage and applying user-defined integrations, improving the user experience.

•Working with Ops, Dev and Test Engineers to ensure operational issues (performance, operator intervention, alerting, design defect related issues, etc.) are identified and addressed at all stages of a product or service release / change.

•Provide support in identification and resolution of all incidents associated with the IT service, as directed by leadership of the DevOps team.

•Ensure service resilience, service sustainability and recovery time objectives are met for all the software solutions delivered.

•Responsible for automating the continuous integration / continuous delivery pipeline within a DevOps Product/Service team driving a culture of continuous improvement.

•Keep up to date and have expertise on current tools, technologies and areas like cyber security and regulations pertaining to aspects like data privacy, consent, data residency etc. that are applicable

•Provide leadership within an engineering discipline (API, UI etc)

Qualifications

•Bachelor Degree in Computer Science or related disciplines

•Decent hands-on development experience with capacity in defining architectures, technology roadmaps, and leading a team of engineers.

•Proficiency developing with modern programming languages and web technologies, and ability to rapidly develop proof-of-concepts

•Ability to work with geographically distributed and cross-functional teams

•Expert in code deployment tools (Jenkins, Puppet, Ansible, Git, Selenium, and Chef)

•Expert in automation tools (CloudFormation, Terraform, shell script, Helm, Ansible)

•Familiar with Containers (Docker, Docker compose, Kubernetes, GKE)

•Familiar with Monitoring (Grafana, Prometheus, AppDynamics, New Relic, Splunk)


 

Education

Bachelor's degree