About the job
One of our clients in the Banking sector are looking for a DevOps Cloud Engineer to join their team.

Job Purpose

To be a leader in both strategy and innovation with the evaluation of new and existing technologies, as well as the development of strategic solutions and blueprints to solve stated business challenges. Perform architectural analysis, design and deliver based on collaboration with various business stakeholders.
Job Responsibilities

Influence and collaborate within functional areas and across teams to design and create Software Deployment Pipelines. This is across multiple squads.
Liaise with vendors to assist in the procurement of BizDevOps enabling technologies and services.
Design and build-out full life-cycle of selected BizDevOps technologies.
Contribute to the design and/or development, testing and evaluation of systems and infrastructure (Infrastructure as Code and Cloud technologies)
Participate in the creation of BizDevOps patterns and practices for the enterprise
Ensure information management, data integrity and security principles are well defined and implemented
Conduct On-boarding, training and coaching for BizDevOps full stack teams
Assess teams’ maturity in the enterprise and assist them with steps to improve their software delivery over a pre-determined period
Manage multiple concurrent objectives, projects, groups, or activities, making effective judgments as to prioritizing and time allocation.
Maintain and facilitate compliance with company, security and regulatory standards
Foster innovation within the BizDevOps team to assist the team to continuously improve
Coach entry level BizDevOps engineers
Support the achievement of the business strategy, objectives and values
Stay abreast of developments in field of expertise
Ensure personal growth and enable effectiveness in performance of roles and responsibilities
Contribute to the Company Culture building initiatives (e.g. staff surveys etc.).
Participate and support corporate responsibility initiatives for the achievement of business strategy
Seek opportunities to improve business processes, models and systems though agile thinking.
Design and implement DevOps solutions that reduce time, improve quality and increase efficiency.
Lead DevOps initiatives in the building, testing and deployment of software.
Configure and manage cloud infrastructure and services.
Implement continuous delivery, automated testing, and deployment strategies.
Work with stakeholders to ensure that DevOps solutions meet business requirements and expectations

Essential Qualifications – NQF Level

Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees

Preferred Qualification

Degree in computer science, math or software engineering or equivalent technical experience
BSC Computer Science
Cloud certification is preferred above fundamentals

Preferred Certifications

DevOps Certification

Minimum Experience Level

4+ years as a Software Developer in either or all of the following: Web Development, Restful Services Development, Mobile Development, Application Development, Back-end Development, Cloud Computing or
4+ years as a Systems Administrator on multiple platforms on-premise and in the Cloud
DevOps experience in cloud deployment
Azure and/or AWS experience in cloud-based application Infrastructure, configuration, deployment and support.
Types Of Exposure

• Experience in cloud and managing applications in cloud – preferably AWS
• Experience build and automating development pipelines.
• Networking exposure would be beneficial. Routing, NACL, VPC, subnets etc
• Understanding of application security concepts. WAF,Security Groups,IAM (Policies & roles)

Technical / Professional Knowledge

• IaC – CloudFormation, Terraform or CDK
• CI/CD tools

• Python skills
• Kubernetes concepts and management.
• Database understanding. Types of DBs. Postgresql, MsSql, Mongo

Behavioural Competencies

Influencing
Collaborating
Continuous Improvement
Innovation
Adaptability
Technical/Professional Knowledge and Skills