Our client in the Financial Industry is looking for a Lead DevOps to join their team for a 12 month contract role in Sandton.

Role purpose:
The successful candidate will design and develop frameworks and applications that will enable integration of individual pieces in CI /CD pipeline, improve reliability of core systems and eliminate manual interactions. The overall idea is to bring value to the customers through simplification of development lifecycle for all colleagues.

Role requirements:

• University Degree or higher certificate in information technology
• Good knowledge of at least one scripting language (PowerShell, Bash, Python)
• Experience with infrastructure as code (preferably Terraform or Ansible)
• Knowledge of Web Services / Micro Services (REST)
• Full understanding of AWS Terraform CI/CD tools (Azure DevOps preferably but Jenkins or any CI/CD is good) GIT
• Security-first mindset
• Fundamental understanding of TCP/IP. DNS, SSL and load balancing
• Basic Docker exposure
• Full stack application development experience is a strong advantage
• Experience in the following technologies is beneficial: Service Fabric, Redis, Openshift, ASP.NET, .Net Core, Rabbit MQ, AWS, Elastic stack, Octopus Deploy, Team City, TFS, Git, Jira, Web API
  

Role responsibilities:

• Ensuring proper architectural principles are followed and good quality of code is being produced
• Manage the business relationship by liaising directly with stakeholders and product owners throughout an agile development lifecycle
• Following DevOps principles and promote them to other teams
• Play a lead role in identifying new ways of working, new technology that can be used, and better ways of using existing technology
• Strong focus on creating products where teams are self-enabled, decentralized management thereof and loosely coupled high available architecture