DevOps Engineer

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Role purpose/Business Unit:

• The DevOps Specialist in Digital and Lifestyle Services (DLS) will be responsible for the planning, coordination, delivering, maintaining, and optimizing infrastructure and database capabilities to support and enable the development and operations of applications and solutions. This role is also responsible for reviewing solution designs, understanding their impact on application/infrastructure, building and implementing infrastructure and applications, and monitoring, maintaining, and supporting the operational environments. In addition, the candidate in this role is responsible for providing technical expertise to team members and other technical/business areas and deployment of all releases into production within a particular domain or business outcome
• DevOps Specialist will be responsible for leading technical delivery within (DLS). Be proficient in integration, Micro Service API development and design. Provide high level support to resolve complex integration design and development problems. Provide architectural and integration guidance to all systems and project streams ensuring that best practises and governance are adhered to in the development of solutions for Vodacom.
• Contribute to establishing a portfolio of DevOps processes, practices, and tools to empower and support delivery teams in continuous deployment, continuous integration, and rapid delivery across value streams.
• Coordinate with teams to implement software configuration, integration, build, and deployment tools.
• Create and implement automation and orchestration tools with infrastructure teams or cloud providers.
• Educate and foster self-service and efficiency wherever possible, automating the processes of provisioning and maintaining continuous integration environments, integration/QA testing, security, and configuration.
• Ensure availability, scalability, maintainability, and monitoring of systems for operations.
• This role requires experience with building APIs, integrating with Enterprise Systems and 3rd party systems, with proven experience in architecting and refactoring complex systems. 
• This role is responsible for identifying, managing, and mitigating risks and issues, to facilitate on-time delivery of capabilities and features aligned to the business outcome vision

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• The role requires deep analytical abilities in system design and requirements decomposition, ability to understand business problems and requirements and design systems to meet both the functional and non-functional requirements. 
• The role requires experience with CI/CD practices, pipelines, containers/containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and micro services patterns. 
• The role is responsible to implement and give guidance around cloud services within DLS, contribute to best practice use of cloud services within Azure, Google and AWS cloud platforms.
• The role is responsible for KPI management and ensuring mandates of uptime, latency, and resilience are met and are consistently above mandated levels.
• The role will be responsible for identifying and deploying cybersecurity measures by continuously performing vulnerability assessment and risk management.
• The role will be responsible to ensure that monitoring and alerting are up to date and has a wide coverage to identify and remedy incidents and prevent outages.
• The role will handle problem management and trend analysis identifying recurring issues and root causes while implementing preventative measures or mechanisms to identify issues faster.
• The role will be responsible for vendor management within the team.
• Ensuring necessary operational controls and governance are in place and policies to ensure alignment
• Ensuring non-functional requirements are implemented with all features and user stories
• Identification and mitigation of risks for services in production
• Executing and managing operational projects to ensure delivery as per agreed timelines and scope
• Acting as technical authority, providing input and guidance into technical solutions and implementations
• Troubleshooting and resolving incidents and defects within service SLAs

Your responsibilities will include:

• Developing and maintaining release and deployment pipelines, implementing automation (scripts testing, deployment, monitoring).
• Preparing AWS application environments (e.g., Identity & access management, security policy compliance) for production with a development kit (e.g., AWS cloud development kit).
• Collaboration between development and operations teams.
• Creating reusable patterns for the deployment of infrastructure and application.
• Operational support and deep DevOps activities (pipelines, repeatable patterns, dev for monitoring and alerting; vulnerability & patch management; security tooling).
• Create and implement risk mitigation processes and oversee security audits to determine weaknesses in applications.
• Play an important role in the development cycle, ensuring the quality of requirements and directing the activities of the design team. This role requires excellent attention to detail, as the specialist frequently needs to work with the solution analysist and participate in translating them into solutions that align with enterprise-level systems.

The ideal candidate for this role will have:

Must have technical / professional qualifications: 

• 3 Year Degree in Computer Science/IT / equivalent Diploma /equivalent Certificate in Information Technology / Business / Project Management (essential), and
• 2 -3 years Integration, Development and Design experience preferably in a highly complex environment (essential).
• Extensive experience in managing dependencies effectively across multiple delivery teams, meeting deadlines and business outcome objectives
• Formal training and/or certification in Scaled Agile Framework or similar preferred
• Experience with project management tools e.g. JIRA, MS Project
• Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, etc.
• Basic scripting skills.
• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI)
• Professional experience and knowledge of digital and Telecommunications industries strongly preferred

Core competencies, knowledge and experience: 

Job knowledge:

• Integration, development and design 
• Change control procedures
• Project management fundamentals
• Technology / Industry trends
• Java Development
• Linux
• Networking
• Agile Framework
• Apigee, SOA and Fusion Middleware
• GSM /Telcos
• Cloud technology
• API development 
• Micro Service framework
• Charge to Bill and Event Rating

Skills:

• Problem solving skills are essential
• Decision making skills are essential
• Analytical skills are essential
• Interpersonal skills are essential
• Presentation skills are essential
• Facilitation skills are essential

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Competencies - Extreme Importance:

• Analysing and Integration design
• Applying Expertise and Technology
• Relating and Networking
• Delivering Results and Meeting Customer Expectations
• Deciding and Initiating Action
• Writing and Reporting
• Persuading and Influencing
• Adapting and Responding to Change – original High Importance
• Coping with Pressures and Setbacks – original High Importance

We make an impact by offering:

• Enticing incentive programs and competitive benefit packages
• Retirement funds, risk benefits, and medical aid benefits
• Cell phone and data benefits, advantages fiber connection discounts, and exclusive staff discounts offered in collaboration with partner companies

Closing date for Applications: 05 March 2025

The base location for this role is, Vodacom Midrand Offices 

The Company s approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.
Vodacom is committed to an organisational culture that recognises, appreciates and values diversity & inclusion.