SENIOR DEV OPS LEAD ENGINEER
- Pretoria, Gauteng
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Manage large technical aspects of projects or smaller engagements independently using appropriate business and technical skills
- Deliver best practices recommendations and technical implementations with cross-product integrations based on customer needs to ICT Management
- Share best practices with ICT and Business stakeholders
- Build relationships and become a technical advisor solving complex challenges
- Manage the configuration of the build infrastructure (Windows and Linux) in line with the policies and industry best practices to ensure improved performance
- Improve reliability and performance of DevOps test and build processes to improve efficiencies
- Design and maintain automated release channels suitable for AVBOB operations under the guidance of ICT Management
- Proactively look for ways to automate the installation and upkeep of build tools and dependencies
- Review and recommend solutions and tools to ICT Management to improve the software development process
- Own the process for releasing builds into QA and up to production
- Build, deploy and maintain production infrastructure and services in line with the AVBOB approval processes
- Managing pre/post-release code merges
- Managing the code branching strategies
- Implement automation tools and frameworks (CI/CD pipelines)
- Building the relationship between Engineering (Dev & QA) and IT Operations to embed the DevOps processes and functions.
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology
- 8 -10 years’ experience in a related field
- 5 years’ experience in a Release Manager role
- Knowledge of the relevant Information Technology governance and legislative framework (such as COBIT, ITIL, TOGAF, SDLC, SOA)
- Project Management experience will be an advantage
- Experience in Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CD/CI) pipelines
- Experience in working with DevOps and Agile methodologies