KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: MUST NOT BE MORE THAN 10

Develop and maintain Continuous Integration CI / Continuous Deployment CD strategy that allows the organization to use DevOps at scale.
Envision, build and execute automated testing plans for all the software developed in the organization and provide reporting templates for monitoring testing coverage.
Contribute in developing best practices for infrastructure as code e.g: Puppet, Shell scripting, software build tools Maven, Gradle, etc. and continuous integration tools Jenkins, TeamCity, etc.
Mentoring and coaching junior software developers in gaining experience and assuming DevOps responsibilities.
Design, build & maintain infrastructure to support a continuous software development process, including all phases of development, QA and software deployment.
Provides direction into standards and procedures for monitoring, capacity planning, tuning, maintenance, performance optimization, backups and recovery; ensures infrastructure will meet capacity requirements to deliver on time.
Setup/Configuration/Administration of code Repositories like Git, SVN etc.
Manage Image storage to ensure consistency and recoverability of the same as required.
Development of process and procedures of code versions to ensure proper governance and security is maintained at all times within the enterprise.
Acts as a thought leader for DevOps practice in the organization while working with stakeholders to select “fit for purpose tools” to be used in the DevOps orchestration/automation processes.

DAILY RESPONSIBILITIES: NOT MORE THAN 5 OF THE MOST TYPICAL

Develop and maintain Continuous Integration CI / Continuous Deployment CD strategy that allows the organization to use DevOps at scale.
Envision and build automated testing plans for all the software developed in the organization and provide reporting templates for monitoring testing coverage.
Contribute in developing best practices for infrastructure as code e.g: Puppet, Shell scripting, software build tools Maven, Gradle, etc. and continuous integration tools Jenkins, TeamCity, etc.
Mentoring junior software developers in gaining experience and assuming DevOps responsibilities.
Design, build & maintain infrastructure to support a continuous software development process, including all phases of development, QA and software deployment.
Provides direction into standards and procedures for monitoring, capacity planning, tuning, maintenance, performance optimization, backups and recovery; ensures infrastructure will meet capacity requirements to deliver on time.

CHALLENGES

The bank has a myriad of diverse systems installed within the organisation running on disparate technologies and thus creates complexity on the correct DevOps tools to be used to support these systems.
At the same time, the bank has a large development organisation churning a lot of software code on a weekly basis which is expected to benefit from DevOps to accelerate deployment/release management.

MINIMUM POSITION QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS

Academic & Professional

Education: Bachelor’s Degree — Bachelor’s Degree RQ

Professional Qualifications:

DevOps tools e.g. Jenkins/Ansible etc.
Certification in Cloud technologies e.g AWS, Azure
Professional Software development e.g. JAVA, Python etc
Azure DevOps Azure Container Registry, Pipelines, Azure Defender, Azure Boards
GitOps Argo CD/Flux CD
Service Mesh Istio, Linkerd, Openshift Service Mesh
Harbor Container Registry, Helm Charts, Contract Testing - Pact Broker, DevSecOps - SAST, DAST - CheckMarx, AKS - Azure Kubernetes Services, EKS - Elastic Kubernetes Services AWS
Masters: MBA/MSc AA

Experience

Detail:

Experience in commercial software development – 3 years ES
Hands-on knowledge of Configuration Management and Deployment tools like Puppet, Ansible, Chef, Terraform – 3 years ES
Experience in developing release pipelines – 3 years ES
Experience with the GIT Ops frameworks – 3 years ES
Experience in Banking Operations – 1 year AA
Proficient in scripting – 2 years AA
Experience working in a fast-paced agile environment – 2 years AA