Cloud Devops Engineer

Network IT; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 400,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in IT is seeking a Cloud DevOps Engineer responsible for operations engineering and delivering business outcomes. The role involves implementing cloud solutions, developing CI/CD pipelines, and ensuring adherence to best practices. Candidates should have experience with Azure and DevOps tools, and a strong understanding of infrastructure management.

Qualifications

• Minimum 1 year experience with Azure and IaC.
• Experience as an Azure Cloud DevOps engineer with Bicep.
• Experience with CI/CD and Azure DevOps.

Responsibilities

• Implement cloud platform resources and middleware configuration.
• Develop CI/CD pipelines using Azure Bicep and PowerShell.
• Promote adherence to engineering standards and best practices.

Skills

Azure cloud infrastructure

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

DevOps concepts

CI/CD processes

System integrations

Network management

Security management

Job description

Job Title : Cloud DevOps Engineer
Reference : NWA-NTY-1

As a Cloud DevOps Engineer, you will have primary responsibility for operations engineering to deliver ongoing operational and business initiative outcomes.

You will provide DevOps technical support to your team and other IT product teams to deliver services and changes across the IT ecosystem.

Duties & Responsibilities

1. 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 pipelines, 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 resources, identity & access management, etc.
• Implement operations automation using configuration and orchestration tools, as well as scripting frameworks.

Promote adherence to engineering standards and best practices.

Develop CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Azure Bicep, ARM templates, and PowerShell.

Promote timely feedback to drive continuous improvement, automation, and value delivery.

Assume technical accountability for the successful implementation of changes.

Assess and manage technical risks, ensuring non-functional requirements are captured and met.

Assist in root-cause analysis of support incidents and issues.

Track application issues and provide feedback on potential improvements.

Support team members on all technical matters to achieve team outcomes.

Contribute to the technical vision of IT products, ensuring alignment with quality assurance and governance, and advocate DevSecOps practices.

Knowledge, Awareness, and Experience

• Minimum 1 year or more with Azure cloud infrastructure setup and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Minimum 1 year of experience as an Azure Cloud DevOps engineer with Bicep.
• Experience with DevOps concepts, tools, and technologies.
• Experience with CI/CD and Azure DevOps.
• Experience with system integrations via API, file transfer, etc.
• Experience supporting Agile CI/CD processes.
• Experience with infrastructure and network management, including system patching, middleware upgrades, and monitoring.
• Experience managing local data center resources.
• Basic understanding of security and vulnerability management.
• Ability to configure and deploy network and cloud infrastructure resources.
• Ability to configure CI/CD tools such as Azure DevOps or equivalents.
• Ability to implement modern configuration and orchestration tools like Puppet, Ansible, Chef, etc.

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