Global technology solutions provider requires a Senior DevOps Specialist in Somerset West area.

Requirements:

• ND:IT or equivalent work experience
• 1+ years of experience in an enterprise IT or development function
• 2+ years of administration experience with development tools, like build automation, continuous integration, code analysis tools, deployment scripting as well as application and infrastructure monitoring.
• 1+ years of hands-on experience in Linux based operating systems
• Understanding of various SDLC methodologies.
• Knowledge (and interest) of open source build automation, continuous integration and code analysis and monitoring tools
• Knowledge of automated deployment scripting, tools and techniques
• Unix/Linux operating system (including Shell, Perl or Python or Ruby scripting).
• Previous experience in release engineering and/or configuration management
• Experience in a team situation that requires reporting into multiple reporting lines.
• Experience using deployment and scripting tools, such as Cargo, Thoughtworks Go, Jython scripting for IBM WebSphere or WLST for Oracle WebLogic.
• Administration experience with Build Automation and Continuous Integration (CI) tools, such as BuildForge, Jenkins, Hudson or Bamboo.
• Administration experience using Open Source build tools, such as Sonar, Emma, PMD, Clover and Checkstyle.
• Administration experience using collaboration tools like the Atlassian suit including Jira, Confluence
• Experience using monitoring software like OpsView or Nagios
• Administration experience in configuring a local cloud environment using docker, mesos, marathon
• Experience in installing and configuring Linux operating systems
• Self-starter and self-motivated
• Successful track record as resourceful and innovative
• Flexible and good teamwork
• Strong attention to detail
• Results-oriented

Duties (including but not limited to):

• Support the adoption of Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration, Test-Driven Development and Agile best practices, processes, and tools.
• Design, implement and migration of build and release management processes to support development processes.
• Perform system build and release when assistance is required – this is key to identifying areas for improvement.
• Ensure the uptime, availability and proper performance of all components.
• Some after-hours work will be required from time to time.

Applicant must reside in Somerset West or surrounding area.
Only South African citizens, who are suitably qualified, live in the applicable area and meet the requirements of the position are eligible to apply for this vacancy.
Please take note: If you have not been contacted within 14 days, please consider your application unsuccessful.