Our client a Geospatial Tech Company is seeking a highly motivated & enthusiastic DevOps Engineer to consolidate, simplify and manage the infrastructure used by our Development Team in Cape Town.

The company builds and deploy globally, a highly configurable ERP-style product with ancillary interfaces which brings a significant infrastructural challenge to our development process.

Your primary focus will be empowering the Development and QA Team to achieve their Feature, Bug and Regression objectives through providing timely infrastructure and eliminating friction points.  We offer a diverse, challenging and engaging ecosystem; we are people-centric with a strong focus on mentoring & learning.

Responsibilities

• Implement and manage a CI/deployment pipeline [not CD]
• Manage our GIT and SVN repositories, including versioning
• Manage AWS deployments for QA and other Dev requirements
• Work with Support to provide Client implementations where required
• Build and test automation tools for infrastructure provisioning
  • Work with our SCRUM Teams to provide infrastructure and implementations
  • Work with QA to provide Regression infrastructure
  • Work with our embedded QAs to provide current deployments [feature/bug testing]
• Manage external requirements e.g. SharePoint Online, Esri.

Capabilities:

• Proven experience in [+5 years]:
• Capacity to absorb and understand a deep level of domain knowledge
• Ability to multitask, prioritize, and manage time efficiently while working under pressure
• Development and operations, or related IT, computer, or operations field
• Software development, infrastructure development, or development and operations
• Latest industry trends

Proficiency with:

• Windows infrastructures
• Microsoft databases
• CI/CD pipelines
• Scripting such as JavaScript, PHP or Python

Exposure to:

• .Net development environment [Microsoft stack]
• HTML and CSS [JavaScript an added advantage]
• AWS
• Containers
• Agile workflow methodologies

Personal skills:

• Excellent communication skills [written & verbal]
• Ability to communicate with all levels of management
• Ability to articulate trends and potential clearly and confidently
• Strong desire to deliver best of breed solutions
• Ability to work in a dynamic, changing environment
• Empathy & open to healthy criticism
• Good interpersonal skills

Education 

• Suitable tertiary degree or equivalent qualification

General:

While we would really like to respond to every application, should you not be contacted for this position within 15 days please consider your application as unsuccessful.

In keeping with our client’s employment equity requirements, only South African citizens will be considered.

Please include your current salary and salary expectations.