REQUIREMENTS
- 6+ years experience
- Degree in IT or relevant experience
- Software Development / DevOps Engineering (2 year+)
- Helpdesk/Support integration experience (1 year+)
- Experience in APM as well as Log
Aggregation like Dynatrace, Grafana,
Datadog or other monitoring systems
- No Ops and/or Git Ops
- JAVA EE / JAVA (exposure)
- Scripting and pipelining
- Service Now, ITSM or similar Ticket Management Systems
- Restful services
- CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment) management and Automation
- Build Tools (Maven/Gradle/Gulp/Grunt/Web Pack)
- SQL (Oracle, Postgres or DB2) and Non-SQL (MongoDB/DynamoDB)
- TDD (Test-Driven Development) / BDD (Behaviour-Driven Development)
- Experience with Liferay Applications
- ITIL (or similar) certification
- AWS DevOps experience
- Working in an Agile Environment
- IoC / Dependency Injection
- Python, Typescript, NodeJS
- Exposure to Liferay 7.0
- South African citizens only
ROLE TASKS
We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer with an understanding of Cloud Technologies and senior Java skills to join our existing Retail Portals and Services team.
If you are a passionate developer comfortable with both front -end and back-end development, full of energy and ambition, a great communicator and team player, this is the right position for you.
- Good understanding of Java/OpenShift/Kubernetes or any Container Orchestration/AWS
- Good scripting knowledge with an aim at infrastructure as code is beneficial
- Responsible for developing and configuring systems to deploy, host, monitor and run various applications across both cloud and on-premise solutions
- Good understanding of delivering pipelined based automation for CI/ CD across the SDLC
- Focus on creation and facilitation to achieve Operations Support, automated end to end monitoring of services and data checks across multiple applications
- Experience with the processes and techniques for logging, monitoring and following up on production incidents
- Experience ensuring that Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are known and communicated to the feature team and other stakeholders
- Good understanding of automated monitoring to achieve various outcomes based on system wide SLAs
- Able to provide technical support for endusers in Germany and World-wide
- Development of features in collaboration with external development partners in Europe.
- Travel to Europe
- Meet with end users and gather requirements.
- Identify common sources of end-user errors and propose improvements
- Develop systems solutions in line with quality and delivery requirements
- Enforce code quality based on set standards (Code Quality Assurance)
- System testing/parallel runs
- System implementation focused on implementing system wide requirements for infrastructure and monitoring
- Troubleshoot defects reported by endusers
- Assist in resolving issues escalated by helpdesk
- Stand-by availability on a rotation basis for user support during business hours
- Release Management
- Create user stories for DevOps issues & AWS
- Code quality checks before deployments
- Non-Functional testing and monitoring