Altron Vacancies Midrand – Senior DevOps Engineer

Job Responsibilities:

• Coordinating and executing of releases into production environments
• Ensuring necessary operational controls and governance are in place and policies to ensure alignment
• Ensuring availability, performance, sustainability and accessibility of application systems/services
• Monitor and maintain infrastructure performance, capacity and availability, providing 2nd and 3rd level support for the resolution of application and infrastructure-related incidents and problems
• Ensuring effective monitoring of services and applications
• Managing and ensuring SLAs and KPIs of services are maintained
• Managing and remediating on security threats and vulnerabilities, and applying all required security controls in accordance with policy
• Troubleshooting incidents and defects
• Managing and overseeing the service transition process of services into the production environment
• Identification and mitigation of risks for services in production
• Ensuring non-functional requirements are implemented with all features and user stories
• Executing and managing operational projects to ensure delivery as per agreed timelines and scope
• Acting as technical authority, providing input and guidance into technical solutions and implementations

Job Requirements:

• Strong relationship building, persuasion, and collaboration skills that drives internal-and cross-team constructive feedback and support
• Ability to lead and mentor team members
• Experience of current and emerging virtualization, infrastructure, cloud and container technologies such as AWS, Docker, Kubernetes/ECS, etc.
• 5 years’ relevant experience in developing, deploying and / or administering infrastructure solutions
• Min 5 years’ experience in database technologies – RDBMS, e.g. MSSQL, PostGreSQL, Oracle, MySQL, etc.
• Understanding of both the Telecommunications and Fintech services markets and technology trends
• Financial Services domain knowledge and experience
• Experience in monitoring technologies and APM tools
• Strong knowledge and experience on AWS (Certification preferred)
• DevOps culture, processes, and tools
• Cloud-native architectures, including public cloud PaaS / IaaS, micro-services architectures, APIs
• Financial Services and Telecommunications domain knowledge preferred
• Strong knowledge of automation frameworks and tools
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to adapt to new methods and processes
• 5 years’ experience in a similar role
• Experience working closely with agile methodologies, such as Scrum, XP, and with teams leveraging DevOps and Continuous Delivery / Integration
• Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery methodologies and techniques
• Experience in managing and maintaining HA solutions, and managing DRP environments
• Min 3 years’ experience working with programming and scripting languages, such as Ruby and Python or PHP
• Knowledge and experience of Web services, SOAP and RESTful interfaces, and XML
• Experience in managing and deploying .NET and java applications
• 3 years’ experience in configuration management and automation Terraform/Cloudformation

Job Details:

Company: Altron

Vacancy Type:  Full Time

Job Location: Midrand

Application Deadline: N/A

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