Senior AWS Cloud DevOps Specialist (Contract) - Midrand/Menlyn/Rosslyn/Home Office rotation - ISB2401819

Our client requires the services of a Software Developer

POSITION: Contract until December 2024 (possible renewal)

COMMENCEMENT: ASAP

ROLE

• Managing projects / processes
• Ability to develop within a specific sought-after programming language
• Strong working knowledge with software development tools, techniques and approaches used to build application solutions
• Working knowledge with software development tools, techniques and approaches used to build application solutions
• Cloud computing technologies, Business drivers and emerging computing trends

REQUIREMENTS:

Minimum years of experience:

• Minimum 8 years software development experience with at least 5 years + Cloud architecture and reporting technology experience
• Extensive experience in implementing and monitoring solutions
• Experience in testing (manual or automated testing)
• Agile working experience advantageous

Minimum qualification required:

• Relevant IT / Business Degree
• Qualifications required:
• IT degree or diploma.

Qualifications advantage:

• AWS Certified: Developer Associate
• AWS Certified: Solution Architect Associate
• AWS Certified: DevOps Engineer

JOB RELATED KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS

Specific Technical / Functional skills

• We are looking for a Senior AWS Cloud DevOps Specialist to join our new IG_DOM/VDWH migration project team (initiative MIDA).
• If you are a passionate software engineer and comfortable with both Vehicle data back-end as well as frontend development, full of energy and ambition, a great communicator and team player, this is the right position for you.
• Develop and operate production ready cloud-based data hubs
• Integration with on premise and multi-cloud-based applications
• Liaise with customer, team members and external vendors
• Deploy applications in AWS
• Experience with testing tools like Selenium, Cucumber, Junit etc. (test atomization is a major requirement in our area)
• Monitoring and operation of applications within AWS Cloudwatch
• Applying cloud-security patterns and concepts to the solutions and deployments
• Experience with Jira and Confluence
• Experience with Jenkins, SonarQube and Nexus and building up an automated pipeline

Technical knowledge - Required:

• Several years’ experience in software development (Python and Terraform)
• Familiarity with API-Management, Microservices Architecture, Cloud Architecture and Container Architecture
• At least 8 years' worth of experience developing back-end data hub solutions with
• Integration / Ingest Technologies
• Large-scale high-performance databases
• Security Patterns
• Experience with cloud technologies (Amazon AWS is strongly preferred):
• Automated deployment and configuration of components and systems
• IaaS knowledge, e.g., deployment and maintenance of Linux VMs
• Virtual networks, including communication with on-premises networks
• Authentication, authorization concepts (OAuth2, OpenID Connect)
• Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery (design, configuration, and operation)
• Infrastructure as Code (Cloud formation templates or Terraform), Configuration Management (e.g., Ansible)
• Monitoring and log analytics
  • AWS Lambda, Cloudwatch, AWS DBs, AWS Integration
  • Experience with Docker / Kubernetes
  • Experience with Databases both Sql and NoSql
  • Experience with:
  • Web Services Design & Deployment
  • REST
  • GIT
• Experience with Design / Architecture Patterns
• Experience in AGILE or SCRUM.
• Experience CI/CD Tools like Jenkins, SonarQube, Nexus, Artifactory
• Technical knowledge - Advantage:
  • AWS:
  • Lambda
  • API-Gateway / Apigee
  • S3, RedShift, DynamoDB, Athena
  • CloudWatch
  • MQ, SQS, SNS, Kafka,
  • StepFunctions
  • Glue
  • Snowflake High Performance DB

Generic Technical/Functional Skills

• Understanding of integration between different technologies
• Coordination between development and support environments
• Assisting with the business case
• Planning and monitoring
• Eliciting requirements
• Requirements organisation
• Translating and simplifying requirements
• Requirements management and communication
• Requirements analysis
• Document requirements in appropriate format depending on methodology followed
• Assist with identification and management of risks