DevOps Engineer

Boardroom Appointments; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 480,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

Boardroom Appointments seeks an IT professional to automate the software delivery lifecycle, enabling continuous integration and deployment in an agile environment. The role emphasizes reducing waste, cost containment, and cross-team collaboration across development, testing and operations.

The successful candidate provides technical leadership, mentors staff, evaluates new tools, and designs automated testing, provisioning, releases and deployments to improve reliability and speed of delivery.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Programming/Systems or Computer Science or related field.
• 3-5 years of programming experience.

Responsibilities

• Identify process improvements to reduce costs and wastage.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring in IT projects across multiple environments.
• Develop IT solutions translating business requirements into test cases and scripts.
• Automate testing, provisioning, releases, deployment and feedback.

Skills

Programming experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in Programming/Systems or Computer Science

Job description

To automate the processes between software development and IT teams to enable continuous delilvery through designing, developing, testing and releasing software frequently, faster and more reliably in an agile environment. To ensure continuous delivery through continuous integration and continuous deployment. Using Lean thinking, ensure continous improvement and collaboration between development testing and operations.

Duties and responsibilities:

• Prevent wastage, and on an ongoing basis identify process improvements in order to contain and reduce costs
• Provide technical leadership, coaching and mentoring as well as technical guidance or system process expertise
• Perform moderate to complex tasks in support of one or more IT projects that require a singular area of expertise, in multiple technical environments within a specific business area
• Evaluate new application packages and tools and perform research on best practices
• Participate in the development of contingency plans and the identification of continuity or disaster recovery risks and mitigation plans
• Plan and perform ongoing routine application maintenance tasks, assist in production support and improve performance
• Automate testing, provisioning, releases, deployment and feedback
• Build a culture of collaboration between Analysts, Architects, Development, QA and Infrastructure ensuring optimal delivery
• Deploy new modules, upgrades and fixes to the production environment and build automated deployments
• Review modules for quality assurance and assist in defining DevOps and quality guidelines and standards
• Develop IT solutions to meet business requirements and translate technical requirements into test cases, test scenarios and scripts. Execute, and document test plans
• Assess and translate business requirements, and write functional specifications for implementation of solutions
• Continuously assess own performance, seek timely and clear feedback and request training where appropriate
• Build working relationships across teams and functional lines in order to enhance work delivery, collaboration and innovation

Qualifications and experience:

• Minimum Qualification - Bachelors degree in Programming/Systems or Computer Science or other related field
• Experience - 3-5 Years of programming experience