Integration Specialist DevOps Platform Engineer at Sanlam Group

What will you do?

• Assist with implementation and configuration of application deployments to multiple target environments.
• Manage and maintain application platforms to ensure stability and continued high performance of said platforms and applications deployed thereon.
• Assist in implementing, managing and configuration of environment, platform and application monitoring.  
• Assisting in the constant investigation and configuration of the monitoring solution products to obtain best value for Business. 
• Continual investigation into best practices, methodologies and tooling for deployment, DevOps, monitoring, release and configuration management and all other relevant disciplines. Documentation of the aforementioned investigation is compulsory.
•  Assist Change, Incident, Project and Release Management resources with reporting and provide consultation around runtime and deployment operations.
• Build, manage and maintain application platforms and ensure that best practices and governance is adhered to in current and future environments. 
• Ensure that tooling and platform obsolesce is avoided and managed in the form of roadmaps and upgrades. 
• Support of the currently employed toolsets and process. 
• Facilitate the automation of deployment workflows and processes, as well as platform/infrastructure provision and maintenance.

What will make you successful?

The following would assist the successful candidate:
DevOps tooling including the following (or similar):

• XebiaLabs Deploy (Deployment Management)
• XebiaLabs Release (Release Management)
• Atlassian JIRA (Issue tracking/work-piece Management)
• Atlassian Bamboo (Build Management)
• Atlassian BitBucket (Source Management)

Application platform, maintenance, implementation and configuration of the following (or similar):

• Apache Tomcat
• Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)
• RedHat JBoss EAP (or Wildfly)
• Exposure to Tibco products will be beneficial

Infrastructure/Application configuration management tooling including the following (or similar):

1. Ansible
2. Chef
3. Puppet
4. Foreman
5. Rundeck 

• Understand the concept of integration of web-based services and practical use of APIs, REST and SOAP services.
• Understand conceptual makeup of the SDLC and in particular, with regards to the implementation phase, the change in responsibilities based on level of agility. 
• Understanding and practical exposure to the generally accepted CI/CD principles and makeup of the pipeline.
• Understanding of relationships and integration between host, operating system, platform and application layers. Knowledge of integration between application touch-points such as directory services (ie LDAP), databases, load balancers and reverse-proxies are also beneficial.

Exposure to containerization concepts and technology such as the following:

• Docker (Swarm)
• Kubernetes operations & administration
• Build, upgrade clusters
• Add remove maintain nodes
• Manage storage
• Manage cluster integrations
• Support applications
• Security - cluster & applications

Qualifications and Experience

Qualifications

• Matric
• Tertiary qualification in Information Technology( would be helpful)

Experience

• 2-5 years in the field of Information Technology
• 2-5 years runtime operations support in some form
• Must have exposure with scripting
• 2-5 years as a basic Linux user
• Linux advance Certification will be advantegeous

Knowledge and Skills

• Operating system software and hardware and utility software
• Software installations and upgrades
• Business requirements
• Security management and data recovery
• Change control