Manager, DevOps
Job Purpose Statement
- Responsible
for defining and implementing the build, deployment and monitoring of APIs
using standards adopted by the bank. Working as part of Agile development
teams to deliver an end-to-end automation of deployment, monitoring, and
infrastructure management in a cloud environment as well as on premise.
- Build
and configure delivery environments supporting CD/CI tools using an Agile
delivery methodology;
- Create
scripts and/or templates to automate infrastructure provisioning and
management tasks.
- Working
closely with the development team to create an automated continuous
integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) pipelines.
- Work
together with vendors and other IT personnel for problem resolution;
- Develop
custom scripts to increase system efficiency and lower the human
intervention time on any tasks as well as contribute to the design of
information and operational support systems.
- Evaluate
application performance, identify potential bottlenecks, develop
solutions, and implement them with the help of developers.
- This
is a technical role that is responsible for the testing, evaluating
functional and nonfunctional, requirements for new and existing software.
- The
role holder will be responsible for developing and executing exploratory
and automated tests to ensure product quality. The working experience in
Testing Development and hand-on Software Development Lifecycle and
Software Testing Lifecycle experience.
- This
is a role that requires good interpersonal skills, the ability to work as
part of an agile team to ensure that quality is driven into the heart of
the development process from requirements definition through to delivery.
Ideal Job Specifications
- A
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related
field. A Master’s degree in Technology or Business-related course is an
added advantage
- Minimum
5 years’ experience in IT systems development within a large highly
digitized organization designing, implementing and managing mission
critical systems, with at least 2 of those years within software testing
- Experience
in Core Banking Software Design and Development preferably T24 will be an
added advantage.
- Hands
on experience in DevOps is required.
- Experience
in writing, executing and monitoring automated test suites using a variety
of technologies such as Cucumber, Concordion, Selenium, Appium, Robotium,
SoapUI, Jmeter
- Certification
and experience implementing best practice frameworks e.g. ITIL, PRINCE2
- Hands
on experience in software development with major languages Java, Kotlin,
C++, C# and practical experience using relation RDBMS e.g. Oracle and MS
SQL etc.
- Strong
understanding of SOA lifecycle, Integration patterns and standard methodologies.
- Knowledge
of Linux/Unix commands and SQL will be required.
- Understanding
of industry standard formats and protocols (JMS, SOAP, XML/XPath/XQuery,
REST and JSON)
- Good
analytical and problem-solving skills
- A
good knowledge of the systems and processes within the Financial Services
industry
- Issue/bug
tracking tools e.g. TestRail, JIRA
- Use
of continuous integration tools e.g. Gitlab CI/Jenkins
- Testing
Automation
How to Apply