DevOps Engineer - Altron Campus Woodmead Block D

The successful DevOps Engineer will be responsible for delivering, maintaining, and optimizing infrastructure, database, and middleware capabilities to support and enable the development and operations of modules and solutions. You will join a new team starting up in our client in the Payments space and be part of a development team of architects, engineers, and a DevOps community.

Key Responsibilities will include:  

• Responsible for building and implementing infrastructure and applications and supporting the operational environments and platforms. 
• Ensuring availability, performance, sustainability and accessibility of application systems/services 
• Ensuring necessary operational controls and governance are in place and policies to ensure alignment 
• Managing and overseeing the service transition process of services into the production environment 
• Ensuring non-functional requirements are implemented with all features and user stories 
• Managing and remediating on security threats and vulnerabilities, and applying all required security controls in accordance with policy 
• Troubleshooting incidents and defects 
• Assisting the development team with the relevant pipelines and services 

Core competencies: 

• Ability to work in an Agile environment and with a DevOps culture
• Strong knowledge of Incident and problem management processes 
• Effective in troubleshooting techniques 
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to adapt to new methods and processes 
• Strong relationship-building, persuasion, and collaboration skills 

Qualifications: 

• National Diploma: Information Technology (Required) or Degree in Computer Science or Engineering 
• Appropriate certifications (AWS) 

Experience: 

• 3 - 5 years’ experience in a similar role 
• 3 - 5 years’ relevant experience in developing, deploying and / or administering infrastructure solutions 
• Strong knowledge and experience on AWS (Certification preferred) 
• Experience of current and emerging virtualization, infrastructure, cloud and container technologies such as AWS, Docker, Kubernetes/ECS, etc. 
• 3 years’ experience in configuration management and automation Terraform, Cloudformation, Ansible 
• Min 3 years’ experience working with programming and scripting languages, such as Bash, Python, Java, or C# 
• Knowledge and experience of Web services, SOAP and RESTful interfaces, along with XML / JSON payloads 
• Experience working closely with agile methodologies, such as Scrum, XP, and with teams leveraging DevOps and Continuous Delivery / Integration 
• Strong knowledge of automation frameworks and tools 
• Min 3 years’ experience in database technologies - RDBMS, e.g. Aurora, MSSQL, PostGreSQL, Oracle, MySQL, etc. 
• Excellent problem-solving ability in complex environments 

Advantageous Experience: 

Experience in AWS services: 

• EC2 
• CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, CodePipeline 
• EKS, ECS, ECR 
• SNS 
• Fintech/Payments experience