PaaS Service: DevSecOps Engineer
Bellville, Western Cape, ZA
Who are we?
Sanlam Group Technology is responsible for the provision of a digitally enabled technology service as a group COE, drive business and transformation and provide group-wide digital and data architecture. We operate the various technology platforms and shared services, ensure Cyber and Information Security resilience, and act as technology governance and risk orchestrator for technology across Sanlam.
What will you do?
As a DevSecOps Engineer, you will play a crucial role in assisting with:
- Management, implementation and configuration of application deployments to multiple target environments.
- Implementing, managing and configuration of environment, platform and application monitoring.
- Constant investigation and configuration of the monitoring solution products to obtain best value for Business.
- Change, Incident, Project and Release Management resources with reporting and provide consultation around runtime and deployment operations.
What will make you successful in this role?
- Manage and maintain application platforms to ensure stability, continued high performance of platforms and applications deployed thereon.
- Continual investigation into best practices, methodologies and tooling for deployment, DevOps, monitoring, release and configuration management and all other relevant disciplines.
- Documentation of the aforementioned investigation is compulsory.
- Build, manage and maintain application platforms and ensure that best practices and governance is adhered to in current and future environments.
- Ensure that tooling and platform obsolesce is avoided and managed in the form of roadmaps and upgrades.
- Support of the currently employed toolsets and process.
- Facilitate the automation of deployment workflows and processes, as well as platform/infrastructure provision and maintenance.
Qualifications
- Matric
- Degree or Diploma in Information Technology/CompSci/Information Systems
Knowledge and Experience
Knowledge
- DevOps tooling including the following (or similar)
- XebiaLabs Deploy (Deployment Management) / XebiaLabs Release (Release Management)
- Atlassian JIRA (Issue tracking/work-piece Management) Atlassian Bamboo (Build Management) Atlassian BitBucket (Source Management)
- Application platform, maintenance, implementation and configuration of the following (or similar):
- Apache Tomcat
- Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)
- RedHat JBoss EAP (or Wildfly)
- Infrastructure/Application configuration management tooling including the following (or similar):
- Ansible
- Chef
- Puppet
- Foreman
- Rundeck
- Understand the:
- Concept of integration of web-based services and practical use of APIs, REST and SOAP services.
- Conceptual makeup of the SDLC and in particular, with regards to the implementation phase, the change in responsibilities based on level of agility.
- Understanding of relationships and integration between host, operating system, platform and application layers. Knowledge of integration between application touch-points
- such as directory services (ie LDAP), databases, load balancers and reverse-proxies are also beneficial.
- Understanding and practical exposure to the generally accepted CI/CD principles and makeup of the pipeline.
- Exposure to containerization concepts and technologies such as the following:
- Docker (Swarm)
- Kubernetes
- OpenShift
Experience
- 2 - 5 years in the field of Information Technology
- 1 - 3 years runtime operations support
- 1 - 3 years as a basic Linux user
- 1 - 3 years in deployment operations
- Exposure to scripting essential
Personal Attributes
Interpersonal savvy - Contributing independentlyDecision quality - Contributing independentlyPlans and aligns - Contributing independentlyOptimises work processes - Contributing independentlyBuild a successful career with us
We’re all about building strong, lasting relationships with our employees. We know that you have hopes for your future – your career, your personal development and of achieving great things. We pride ourselves in helping our employees to realise their worth. Through its five business clusters – Sanlam Fintech, Sanlam Life and Savings, Sanlam Investment Group, Sanlam Allianz, Santam, as well as MiWay and the Group Office – the group provides many opportunities for growth and development.
Core Competencies
Cultivates innovation - Contributing independentlyCustomer focus - Contributing independentlyDrives results - Contributing independentlyCollaborates - Contributing independentlyBeing resilient - Contributing independentlyTurnaround time
The shortlisting process will only start once the application due date has been reached. The time taken to complete this process will depend on how far you progress and the availability of managers.
Our commitment to transformation
The Sanlam Group is committed to achieving transformation and embraces diversity. This commitment is what drives us to achieve a diverse, inclusive and equitable workplace as we believe that these are key components to ensuring a thriving and sustainable business in South Africa. The Group's Employment Equity plan and targets will be considered as part of the selection process.
* Salary range is an estimate based on our InfoSec / Cybersecurity Salary Index 💰
Tags: Ansible APIs Automation Bitbucket CI/CD DevOps DevSecOps Docker FinTech Governance Jira Kubernetes LDAP Linux Monitoring PaaS Puppet Scripting SDLC Tomcat
Perks/benefits: Career development
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