Manager: Microservices and Orchestration Architecture at MTN

The Manager: Microservices and Orchestration Architecture will be accountable to achieve the following objectives:

• Design and implement new solutions and improve resilience of the current DevOps environment
• Work closely with development and infrastructure teams to troubleshoot issues on the platforms services provided; understand requirements to enhance platform services in use through automation or tools; assist with optimising and simplifying deployment; and to measure the software delivery and operational performance
• Integrate various tools in the DevOps toolchain to accelerate development teams’ velocity while maintaining high standards for quality and consistency
• Design and develop APIs / plugins / integration for tools and applications
• Assist with the design and implementation of continuous delivery and integration pipelines and automation workflows across both on-premise and public cloud solutions
• Automate parts of the development delivery process using scripts and other appropriate tools, including infrastructure provisioning and day 2 operations.
• Create and maintain technical documentation, including processes and user guides for integrated tools and scripts
• Create failure management processes and tools so outages can be handled without causing a loss of delivery
• Champion changes to tools and processes to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the development team and the availability of resiliency of technology infrastructure
• Advise on new technologies and methodologies by becoming an expert in emerging technologies and tools relevant to development operations for both on-premise and cloud solutions
• Perpetuate a DevOps culture
• Configuration management of operating systems and applications, ensuring standards are defined and managed using the necessary tools provided (i.e. Puppet, Ansible).
• Responsible and accountable for the monitoring and alerting of the entire platform.
• Managing risk and release through configuration management, patch management, and version control (i.e. Git).
• Provide a high degree of leadership through ownership and follow through of tasks.
• Providing effort estimates on projects and prioritising own tasks effectively.
• Ensure that development and system administration follows guidelines & standards, and follow best practices.
• Brainstorming and incubating new ideas with other team members.

Education:

• Minimum 4-year Academic Degree (B Eng. / BSc Degree preferred)
• Master’s degree (advantageous)
• Strong Computer Science fundamentals
• Computer Science degree or (or similar engineering discipline) equivalent preferred
• 3 years of experience with software development, system architecture design and\or system integration
• 2 years of experience with DevOps practice
• Experience in a similar role – Advantageous
• Networking knowledge in AWS, Azure and Cisco – Advantageous
• Appropriate Industry Certifications, including: Cloud certifications: AWS, Azure or GCP (desirable).
• Hypervisor Certification i.e. VCAP / OpenStack / CloudStack (desirable).
• Puppet, Ansible or associated automation technology education (desirable).
• Fluent in English and language of country (preferable)

Experience:

• Manager or Senior Engineer track record of 5 years or more; with at least 3 years in relevant sector / industry / area of specialisation
• Worked across diverse cultures and geographies (advantageous)
• Experience working in a medium-to-large organisation
• SW development experience with key focus on integration technologies
• Deep understanding of API design and lifecycle management processes
• Knowledge of one or more development and scripting languages
• Good working knowledge of Kubernetes and Docker
• Deep end-to-end understanding of the software development lifecycle, methodologies and tool chains including source control, build automation, version control, testing, code quality, deployment and release.
• Experience with Lean / Agile process
• Good understanding DevOps principles
• Experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery
• Good working knowledge of Cloud Native development practices as well as experience with implementing and deploying public cloud solutions
• System monitoring tools (ELK, Graphana, Prometheus)
• Cloud infrastructure experience (built and managed) on any of the following: GCP, AWS, Azure – Intermediate to Advanced experience.