Location: Somerset West, Cape Town
Salary: Negotiable

Purpose of the Position:
Our developers at Interfront release new code multiple times a day. We are looking for someone to join the DevOps team to help automate and support the tools and processes relating to continuous delivery/integration/deployment, test-driven development, and agile best practices.
This role places a heavy emphasis on both maintaining and improving a complex continuous integration and release solution and providing support to a large team of developers and testers involved in our complex, multi project, Java based product suite and projects.

Responsibilities/Tasks:
Build and release Maintenance and optimization of software build & release process
Support the adoption of Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration, Test-Driven Development, and Agile best practices, processes, and tools.
Scripting and automation of manual tasks
Support, maintenance and monitoring of DevOps related environments
Occasional after hours support
Research new tools, technologies and best practice
Pilot new technology implementations
Minimum Requirements
Relevant IT Degree or Diploma
Prior experience in an enterprise IT or development environment
2+ years of experience in Linux based operating systems
2+ years of enterprise software development experience or 2+ years of DevOps experience
2+ years of scripting experience
Experience with revision control systems such as Git/SVN
Proficient in any modern, object oriented programming language

Beneficial Skills
Jenking / Hudson / Bamboo / Travis CI or similar
Maven / Ant / Make or similar
Code analysis and reporting tools such as Sonar
Docker / Vagrant / Virtualbox
Sound understanding of Agile Methods
Jython / Groovy / Java / Ruby
Chef / Puppet / Ansible or similar configuration management tools
Exposure to cloud computing
Networking
Opsview, Nagios, Zennos, Zabbix or similar monitoring tools
Websphere / DB2
Relational databases
Personal Profile
Self-starter and self-motivated
Successful track record as a technical professional who is resourceful and innovative
Flexible and good teamwork