Key tasks and responsibilities:
Creating and managing the roadmap and implementation of DevOps within our clients organisations;
Advising clients on appropriate DevOps strategies specific to their unique business needs;
Propose DevOps technology solutions and take the lead in implementing and evaluating those solutions;
Supervise and deliver architecture design, infrastructure design, build and deployment activities;
Delivering high level designs using industry standard methodologies (UML process flow/sequence diagrams etc) to articulate complex tasks to business and technical teams;
Working effectively with 3rd party and offshore development teams;
Supporting the ongoing growth of our organisation as required
Experience in the following:
Strong experience with either Java or Python scripting is a must
Software Delivery Lifecycle Process optimisations and Business Process Modelling
Source code systems and branching strategies
Containerisation technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, EKS, GKE, AKS, OpenShift, etc.)
Collaboration, Issue tracking and wiki documentation (JIRA, Confluence, Slack, Teams)
Test automation and Service Virtualization
Experience with cloud providers and their services (at least one of AWS, GCP, Azure);
Some exposure in Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment techniques, approaches and tools, including experience with some of the following tools: GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Concourse CI, Jenkins X, TeamCity, Artifactory, etc;
Infrastructure provisioning (at least one of Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation)
Observability and Application monitoring (ELK stack, TICK stack, Grafana, Prometheus, New Relic, Datadog, etc.)
Networking concepts - Bastion hosts, Reverse Proxies, Load Balancing, TLS, etc
Key Soft Skills required, include but not limited to:
Naturally resilient, tenacious and results driven with excellent communication and influencing skills;
Self-starter and highly motivated towards success;
Team Player
