Job Purpose

To be a leader in both strategy and innovation with the evaluation of existing technologies, as well as the development of strategic solutions and blueprints to solve stated business challenges. Perform architectural analysis, design and deliver based on collaboration with various business stakeholders.

Job Responsibilities

• Influence and collaborate within functional areas and across teams to design and create Software Deployment Pipelines. This is across multiple squads.

• Liaise with vendors to assist in the procurement of BizDevOps enabling technologies and services.

• Design and build-out full life-cycle of selected BizDevOps technologies.

• Contribute to the design and/or development, testing and evaluation of systems and infrastructure (Infrastructure as Code and Cloud technologies)

• Participate in the creation of BizDevOps patterns and practices for the enterprise

• Ensure and understanding of information management, data integrity, and security

• Conduct On-boarding, training and coaching for BizDevOps full stack teams

• Assess teams’ maturity in the enterprise and assist them with steps to improve their software delivery over a pre-determined period

• Manage multiple concurrent objectives, projects, groups, or activities, making effective judgments as to prioritizing and time allocation.

• Maintain and facilitate compliance with company, security and regulatory standards

• Foster innovation within the BizDevOps team to assist the team to continuously improve

• Coach entry level BizDevOps engineers

• Support the achievement of the business strategy, objectives and values

• Stay abreast of developments in field of expertise

• Ensure personal growth and enable effectiveness in performance of roles and responsibilities

• Contribute to the Nedbank Culture building initiatives (e.g. staff surveys etc.).

• Participate and support corporate responsibility initiatives for the achievement of business strategy

• Seek opportunities to improve business processes, models and systems though agile thinking.

• Designing and implementing Systems including data analysis.

• Developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.

• Monitoring system performance and troubleshooting issues.

• Collaborating with development teams to streamline processes.

• Ensuring security best practices are followed.

• Development, management and consultation of tools, patterns and practices surrounding DevOps, Green Engineering, DevSecOps, IAC, Architecture, Toolchains, Pipelines, Processes, Value Stream Management, FinOps, Technical Leadership etc.

• Strong knowledge of cloud platforms.

• Proficiency in scripting and automation.

• Experience with containerisation and orchestration tools.

• Excellent problem-solving skills.

• Self-Starter, Takes initiative, wide range of general IT and Development and operational skills.

Essential Qualifications - NQF Level

Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees

Preferred Qualification

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field.

• A master’s degree can be advantageous.

• Relevant certifications such as AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Google Professional DevOps Engineer, or Microsoft Certified: Azure DevOps Engineer Expert.

Minimum Experience Level

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps or a related field.

• DevOps experience in cloud deployment

• Azure and/or AWS experience

• Experience with Cloud, Kubernetes, Linux, CI/CD, Programming, Scripting.

• Cloud Platforms: AWS and Azure Cloud Platforms.

• Containerisation and Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes.

• Scripting and Automation: Python, Bash, Terraform.

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Chef, Terraform, Ansible.

• Monitoring and Logging: Dynatrace, Grafana.

• SDLC Best Practices: Implementing secure coding practices and compliance,

• Behavioural Competencies

• Influencing

• Collaborating

• Continuous Improvement

• Innovation

• Adaptability

• Technical/Professional Knowledge and Skills