Senior Devops Lead Engineer

Overview

Centurion, South Africa | Posted on

• / We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to improve software development and release lifecycle efficiencies by modernizing our processes & workflows and building a robust Continuous Integration / Deployment pipeline.

Responsibilities

Manage large technical aspects of projects or smaller engagements independently using appropriate business and technical skills.

Deliver best practices recommendations and technical implementations with cross-product integrations based on customer needs to ICT Management.

Share best practices with ICT and Business stakeholders.

Build relationships and become a technical advisor solving complex challenges.

Manage the configuration of the building infrastructure (Windows and Linux) in line with policies and industry best practices to ensure improved performance.

Improve reliability and performance of DevOps test and build processes to improve efficiency.

Proactively look for ways to automate the installation and upkeep of build tools and dependencies.

Review and recommend solutions and tools to ICT Management to improve the software development process.

Own the process for releasing builds into QA and up to production.

Build, deploy and maintain production infrastructure and services in line with the AVBOB approval processes.

Manage pre / post release code mergers.

Manage the code branching strategies.

Implement automation tools and frameworks (CI / CD pipelines).

Build the relationship between Engineering (Dev & QA) and IT Operations to embed the DevOps processes and functions.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in information technology.

8-10 years' experience in a related field.

5 years' experience in Release Manager role.

Knowledge of the relevant Information Technology governance and legislative framework (such as COBIT, ITIL, TOGAF, SDLC, SOA).

Project Management experience will be an advantage.

Experience in Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI / CD) pipelines.

Experience in working with DevOps and Agile methodologies.

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