DevOps Engineer III at Shoprite Group of Companies

Purpose of the Job    

• To assist the DevOps Practice Manager in the DevSecOps Discipline with DevOps best practices, training, coaching, pipeline implementation, roadmap and the roll-out of DevOps standards and toolchain used by IT development and operation teams.
• This includes the creation and maintenance of both continuous integration, continuous deployment and release patterns using scripting languages to create templates for use by team for all type of deployments and technologies used.
• Together with the DevOps Practice Manager, the DevOps Engineer will form the core of our DevSecOps discipline. This small team will help to implement and mature DevSecOps tool chains across the SDLC Delivery and Deployment teams, provide consulting and coaching to teams on DevSecOps, assist with implementing and maturing DevSecOps tool chains, provide training on DevSecOps Tool chain technologies and processes, and establish and rollout DevSecOps standards and best practices.

Job Objectives    

• Implement, maintain and support DevSecOps best practices, development standards and Software Development Lifecycle tools (SDLC). 
• Provide occasional assistanceto IT Operation DevOps Engineers with incidence management and root cause analysis on DevOps implementations.
• Assist the DevOps Practice Manager with updating and maintaining existing DevSecOps training material, the DevOps SharePoint site and the creation of new DevOps training material and DevOps documentation.
• Assist with internal training on DevSecOpstechnologies, tools and DevOps fundamentals, including mentoring and coaching of developers, QA engineers, security teams and the various IT operations teams.
• Provide occasional assistanceto IT Operation DevOps Engineers with incidence management and root cause analysis on DevOps implementations.

Qualifications    

• Grade 12
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Diploma in Software Engineering or equivalent
• Industry Certification: MicrosoftAZ-400 (DevOps) Certification
• Industry Certification: Any AWS or Azure Certification

Experience    

• 4+ years Experience in IT, IT operations and/or software development environment (Essential)
• 3-4 years of Extensive Experience using Azure DevOps for DevSecOps pipeline orchestrations (Essential)
• 5 years of Solid working experience with SDLC Tools (Essential)
• 3-5 years of Experience managing development activities and proficiency in applying the SDLC and DevOps principles (Essential)
• 3-5 years of Experience with Atlassian Stack (Jira, Bitbucket) (Essential)

Knowledge and Skills    

• 3-5 years of Good Understanding and Working knowledge of a collection SDLC tools (Essential) 
• Understanding of the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) principles (Desirable)
• 3-5 years of Understanding of SDLC methodologies; Agile; Waterfall; DevOps (Essential)
• 3-5 years of Understanding of SDLC stages and best practices (Desirable)