DevOps Engineering Practice Lead at Old Mutual South Africa

Detailed Description
Develop, implement and manage the continuous integration and deployment solutions for production applications across various software platforms

• Lead the creation of new technology infrastructures and frameworks and maintain configuration management and automation tools.
• Troubleshoot issues in development systems and is also be responsible for the architecture and technical leadership of the entire DevOps infrastructure
• Enable the automation of configuration management of all development, quality assurance, and production servers as well as the automation of continuous integration and continuous delivery.
   

Provide thought leadership, establish and grow DevOps and Engineering practice.

• Identify and implement appropriate DevOps tools and technologies
• Conduct DevOps training and knowledge-sharing initiatives with software engineering teams.
• Coach the engineering teams in the workings of reusable tools and patterns, for example, reusable code.
• Support engineering teams in the implementation of lifecycle infrastructure solutions and documentation operations in order to meet the engineering department’s quality and standards.
• Keep up with industry best practices and trends on behalf of the software engineering teams and broader IT department.
• Conduct research, test, and implement new metrics collection systems that can be reused and applied to any site/software development project.
• Lead and guide the team in identifying and implementing new technologies for software engineering.
   

Create software deployment strategies that allow software engineers to successfully deploy software in any environment.

• Update configuration management tools, code, and modules for the purpose of streamlining implementation and supportability.
• Create solutions for managing and ingesting large numbers of documents in real time, enabling prompt search and analysis.
• Implement monitoring solutions that identify both system bottlenecks and production issues.
• Identify and implements data storage schemas such as clustering in order to maximize performance
   

Design, build, and optimize comprehensive development automation systems that service the entire application landscape.

• Design scaling strategies and develop automation scripts and solutions for the purpose of streamlining, implementing, and testing sites/software
• Develop self-service solutions for engineering teams in order to deliver sites/software with great speed and quality
• Design, implement and maintains solutions for automated monitoring and alerting
   

Continuous improvement to ensure effective service

• Ensure statutory and legislative knowledge is always current in order to resolve customer complaints, to advise the business on corrective solutions to mitigate risks and to improve the customer experience whilst complying with governance requirements.
• Ensure adherence to organisational policies, practices and procedures.
• Identify solutions to enhance cost effectiveness and increase operational efficiency.
   

Service delivery to ensure customer satisfaction

• Maintain service, quality and desired outputs across the business process by ensuring compliance to tactical policies, procedures and standards.
• Establish productive operational relationships with key stakeholders in the various channels and administrative teams.
• Develop work routines in line with operational plans / schedules in order to manage achievement of service delivery goals.
• Share knowledge on, and participate in the creation of new standards, control systems and procedures to maintain service delivery.
   

Ensure cost efficiency through financial and corporate governance

• Contribute to the development and implementation of fit for purpose budgets.
• Manage supplier relationships, and budgets associated with projects.
   

Manage quality people practices

• Align own behaviour with the organisation culture and values.
• Share and transfer product, process and systems knowledge to colleagues.
• Collaborate and work with wider business teams to deliver required service levels.
• Actively share information with other team members regarding successes, issues, trends and ideas.
   

Job Requirements

• Bachelors in Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent.
• Relevant IT certifications advantageous.
• 5 – 8 years’ working experience in a Software Engineering or DevOps capacity, preferably as a DevOps Engineer.
• 5 – 8 years’ experience in leading implementation of DevOps practices and tools, systems automation, orchestration, deployment, and implementation.
   

Additional Details

• Strategic : Is able to understand, identify and acts on broader opportunities in order to drive longer term, value-adding change.Applies judgement effectively. Identifies and acts on market and/or competitor trends/opportunities
• Customer : Putting the customer at the heart of business decisions and driving to improve value for customers.
• Collaboration : Creates trust, respect and builds meaningful relationships. Able to handle a wide range of relational challenges to ensure collaboration across boundaries.
• Leading with Influence : Influences and rallies people behind common goals; actively supports growth and inspires others to exceed expectations. Communicates clear strategies and objectives for own function.
• Innovation : Generates creative/out of the box solutions. Challenges the status quo and/or demonstrates ability to relate to challenges from a range of diverse but relevant perspectives. Willing to take calculated risks when introducing novel ideas.
• Personal Mastery : Learns and actively works to build self-awareness; develop through experience and feedback from others. Copes effectively with stress and has the resilience to take on stretching and challenging assignments. Adjusts effectively to work within new work structures; processes; requirements and cultures.
• Executing : Displays consistent energy, drive and perseverance in order to deliver results. Demonstrates a willingness to take calculated risks to achieve stretch performance goals.