Manager, DevOps
Job Purpose Statement
- Responsible for defining and implementing the build,
deployment and monitoring standards for 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 and/or bootstrap 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 and approving of quality, functional and non-functional,
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
position requires proven working experience in Testing Development and
hand-on Software Development Lifecycle and Software Testing Lifecycle
experience.
- This is a role that requires excellent interpersonal skills,
the ability to work as part of an agile team, to manage competing
priorities and 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.
- Deep understanding of industry standard formats and protocols
(JMS, SOAP,
- XML/XPath/XQuery, REST and JSON)
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- A good knowledge of the systems and processes within 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
