Jnr DevOps Engineer

Pepkor IT

Tygervalley, Bellville, ZA

1d ago

Responsibilities

Pepkor IT is a dynamic IT company that delivers value-driven IT solutions to the Pepkor group. Our work lives revolve around our DNA.

We take pride in our work, treat our colleagues, partners and our country with respect. We exercise collaborative decision-making and believe in having a balance in life.

We do this all whilst being fun to be with and enjoying what we do.

The primary focus of this position is to administrate, configure, monitor and maintain our continuous integration and source control areas.

You will need to be helpful and supportive to your team and fellow developers. You join an energetic, focused and dynamic team.

Develop Jenkins jobs to do the following : ADF DeploymentsJasper Report DeploymentsOracle Forms & Reports DeploymentsOracle Stored Object CompilationsSpring App Deployments via maven

Source Control Management using : Subversion Edge Manage user accessDevelop hook rulesBackup & Recovery GitLab (New) Maintain on latest versionBackup & Recovery

Application Server Administration using : Weblogic, Tomcat and Apache httpd Install & configureMonitor & MaintainTroubleshoot & problem solve

Continuous Delivery Pipelines using Jenkins : ADF DeploymentsJava Spring DeploymentsHtml / javascript Deployments

Monitoring : Troubleshooting potential issues (Reactive / Proactive)Monitoring tools used Oracle Enterprise Manager 12CNagiosApp Dynamics

Documentation : Document all processes and proceduresDocument all installation / configuration / upgrade processes

Research & Development : Investigate and access new Tools to be used in DevOps Environment and their viability as well as their fitThink on an enterprise scale.

I.E reuse, flexibility, fit for purpose, cultural fit within Pepkor ITOngoing process re-engineering to adapt continuous integration environment to technological changes

Support Development teams with build processes and release management of new changes to production

You will be working with the following technologies :

Tomcat

Apache httpd

Nagios

App Dynamics

Oracle Enterprise Manager

Maven

Jasper Reports

Oracle & MySQL Database

Linux

Key Competencies and Qualifications

Matric

Tertiary qualification in IT

The natural tendency to take ownership and responsibility

Strong problem solving, effective planning and organisational skills

Detail oriented

Excellent communication skills

You have a can do attitude

Can cope under pressure

Positive outlook on life

Above all, be passionate about what you do

Take responsibility for team failures

Strives for continuous improvement

Works smart, not hard (DevOps has 3 team members supporting hundreds of servers across +- 20 technology types, and it is expanding quickly)

Needs to have adopted DevOps as a culture

Needs to embrace change rather than fear it

3 Years’ experience in linux, continuous integration (Jenkins), scripting in Python, Ant, Shell

Strengths