Closing Date: 2025-09-11Job Type: ContractJob Level: SkilledExperience: Between 5 - 7 YearsEE/AA: NoSummaryOur client in the Engineering Industry is looking for a DevOps Engineer to join their team onn a long term contract basis.Contract up to end of December 2028. To be based in Pretoria, Midrand and home office. (Hybrid)DescriptionClose cooperation to the business Team as well as IT Team.Clarification and documentation of the business requirements and functional description as well as initial design. (Requirements analysis and Documentation)Preparation of business concept, deepen existing requirements and changes to requirements, specifying, modelling, prioritizing, and validating functional solutions.Java development (analysis, development, and testing) on a platform with extensive integration points.Problem Management related to area of responsibility.Development and maintenance on platform / application.Meet with end users and gather requirements.Participate in daily stand-ups and scrum ceremonies.Propose and review system design and evaluate alternatives.Review and present to Product Owners.Develop systems solutions in line with quality and delivery requirements.Preparation of system / technical documentation (as per ISO standards).Create required ITSM tickets to relevant support groups.Manage Release deployments.2nd Level Incident Management.System audits / quality assurance.System testing / parallel runs.System implementation.Process improvement.Change Management.User training.Minimum RequirementsRelevant Degree or IT Diploma.Qualification / Certification in Backend development technologies.2 to 3 years Development Experience.2 to 3 years DevOps Operations Experience.Required Skills:DevOpsJava / JEERESTful APIsTerraformKnowledge of design patternsCI/CD pipelines with GitHubDatabases / SQL (PostgreSQL advantageous)NoSQL (Elasticsearch advantageous)Unit testing tools (Junit /Mockito)ORM tools (Hibernate advantageous)Spring Framework and Spring BootExperience with Java application servers (Glassfish)Docker / Kubernetes (AWS / OpenShift advantageous)Production Deployment and Release ManagementRemedy / ITSM Tools
