Junior DevOps Engineer
Johannesburg Northern Suburbs

Developing automated solutions for operational aspects such as on-call monitoring, disaster response, while complementing continuously delivery and infrastructure automation. Further, responsible for availability, latency, performance, efficiency, change management, monitoring and emergency response.

• Responsible for the automation, enablement, availability, performance, monitoring, and incident response of the platforms and services.
• Continuously improve observability to ensure the uptime and reliability of applications and infrastructure.
• Working closely with architects and developers.
• Collaborating with the relevant developer to report, troubleshoot, and repair operational issues and performing and automating software deployments.
• Create / use infrastructure for implementing, administering cloud services and deployments.
• Troubleshoot and help to resolve production issues to ensure systems and devices run smoothly.
• Identify ideas to improve system performance, best practises, cost effectiveness of services and impact availability.
• Work with DevOps Manager and team members to develop accurate work estimates on work packages.
• Liaise with foundation, database and platform Subject Matter Experts to automate installations and enhance the monitoring and maintenance of their disciplines.
• Deliver on service level agreements made with clients and internal and external stakeholders in order to ensure that client expectations are managed.
• Participate and contribute to a culture which builds rewarding relationships, facilitates feedback and provides exceptional client service.
• Continuously develop own expertise in terms of professional, industry and legislation knowledge.
• Contribute to the financial planning process within area.
• Provide input into the risk identification processes and communicate recommendations in the appropriate forum.

• Relevant 3-year IT qualification or equivalent
• LPI certification
• 1 year experience as a Developer, Tester or System Administrator
• 1 year experience in a DevOps environment
• Insurance industry experience (desirable)
• Agile software development practices and tools (Atlassian, JIRA)
• Proficient with technologies used within the business (MMI-specific list)
• Minimum 1 object-oriented and 1 scripting language (PowerShell, Bash, Python)
• Linux / Unix experience
• Online version control systems (Subversion, GitHub, Bitbucket)
• Java application build processes and tools (CI/CD, including Ant, Gradle, Jenkins, and Artifactory)
• Monitoring and alerting tools (Alerta, Selenium, Prometheus, InfluxDB, Elastic Stackt, cloudwatch, cloudtrail, xray)
• Configuration management and containerisation tools (Terraform, Chef, Puppet, Salt, Ansible, Docker, Mesos or similar technologies)
• Cloud server environment administration (Amazon Web Services)
• Common data stores, both relational and NoSQL
• Knowledge of IPv4 networking, web protocols and Linux/Unix systems
• Knowledge and experience in micoservices or service-oriented marchitectures (SOA and REST) m18.1m