Cloud DevOps Engineer

Global One; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 800,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology firm in Cape Town is on the lookout for an experienced DevOps Engineer. This pivotal role involves planning, developing, and maintaining automation tools, managing the CI/CD pipeline, and ensuring top-notch software quality. Candidates should possess strong skills in Ruby, Python, and Java, and have experience with Linux-based infrastructure and databases. The ideal candidate thrives in a collaborative environment and has a solid understanding of DevOps principles. This role offers an opportunity to impact customer satisfaction and productivity significantly.

Qualifications

• Experience working on Linux-based infrastructure.
• Excellent understanding of Ruby, Python, Perl, and Java.
• Configuration and managing databases such as MySQL and Mongo.
• Excellent troubleshooting skills.
• Working knowledge of various tools, open-source technologies, and cloud services.
• Awareness of critical concepts in DevOps and Agile principles.

Responsibilities

• Understand customer requirements and project KPIs.
• Implement various development, testing, automation tools, and IT infrastructure.
• Plan team structure, activities, and involvement in project management.
• Manage stakeholders and external interfaces.
• Set up tools and required infrastructure.
• Define development, test, release, update, and support processes for DevOps operation.
• Review, verify, and validate software code developed in the project.
• Use troubleshooting techniques to fix code bugs.
• Monitor processes for adherence and create improvements.
• Encourage and build automated processes wherever possible.
• Identify and deploy cybersecurity measures.
• Conduct incidence management and root cause analysis.
• Coordinate and communicate within team and with customers.
• Select and deploy appropriate CI/CD tools.
• Strive for continuous improvement in CI/CD pipeline.
• Mentor and guide team members.
• Monitor and measure customer experience and KPIs.
• Report progress to management and customers.

Skills

Linux infrastructure experience

Ruby

Python

Perl

Java

Database management (MySQL, Mongo)

Troubleshooting skills

Knowledge of automation tools

Understanding of DevOps and Agile principles

Job description

Job brief

When we begin discussing the DevOps engineer job description, we may begin by saying that the role of a DevOps engineer is critical to the projects overall success, right from planning to support primary KPI as customer satisfaction and productivity. A DevOps Engineer Expert has an essential role in integrating the project functions and resources across the product life cycle, right from planning, building, testing, and deployment to support.

DevOps Engineers are conversant with all the technical as well as IT operations aspects for integrated operations. They are expected to know about the various automation tools which may be required for process automation and testing.

Requirements

• Experience working on Linux based infrastructure
• Excellent understanding of Ruby, Python, Perl, and Java
• Configuration and managing databases such as MySQL, Mongo
• Excellent troubleshooting
• Working knowledge of various tools, open-source technologies, and cloud services
• Awareness of critical concepts in DevOps and Agile principles

Responsibilities

• Understanding customer requirements and project KPIs
• Implementing various development, testing, automation tools, and IT infrastructure
• Planning the team structure, activities, and involvement in project management activities.
• Managing stakeholders and external interfaces
• Setting up tools and required infrastructure
• Defining and setting development, test, release, update, and support processes for DevOps operation
• Have the technical skill to review, verify, and validate the software code developed in the project.
• Troubleshooting techniques and fixing the code bugs
• Monitoring the processes during the entire lifecycle for its adherence and updating or creating new processes for improvement and minimizing the wastage
• Encouraging and building automated processes wherever possible
• Identifying and deploying cybersecurity measures by continuously performing vulnerability assessment and risk management
• Incidence management and root cause analysis
• Coordination and communication within the team and with customers
• Selecting and deploying appropriate CI/CD tools
• Strive for continuous improvement and build continuous integration, continuous development, and constant deployment pipeline (CI/CD Pipeline)
• Mentoring and guiding the team members
• Monitoring and measuring customer experience and KPIs
• Managing periodic reporting on the progress to the management and the customer