Deloitte Consulting - Core Business Operations: Operations Transformation - Service Engineer/IT Ops Jobs in South Africa

Deloitte Consulting - Core Business Operations: Operations Transformation - Service Engineer/IT Ops Jobs in South Africa


Main Purpose of Job

  • The Service Engineer is responsible for ensuring the application and service stability, availability and optimum performance.

  • The role is also responsible for automating manual and repetitive operations tasks by engaging with the entire software development life cycle to build, monitor and maintain various software systems.

  • The candidate must have an “automate all tasks” attitude and must have strong software engineering mind-set in order to apply best practices to automation solutions that they build.

  • This role is also responsible for reviewing application solution designs; understanding their impact on application/infrastructure; this role will also require close collaboration with product developers to ensure that the designed solution aligns to non-functional requirements such as availability, performance, security, and maintainability

    Your responsibilities will include

  • Monitoring and maintaining of services or application stability, performance, capacity and availability

  • Automating all manual, repetitive and automatable tasks to reduce toil

  • Assisting development teams with defining non-functional requirements for all features/systems/services

  • Release engineering - Designing and configuring CI/CD pipelines and ensuring teams adhere to release requirements

  • Carrying out software quality assessment for all releases to production, including code and application design reviews

  • Monitoring and maintaining of service/application performance, capacity and availability

  • Ensuring availability, sustainability and accessibility of application systems/services

  • Performing Incident Management and Root Cause Analysis

  • Providing 2nd and 3rd level support to the IS Service Desk for the resolution of application and infrastructure-related incidents and problems

  • Managing and remediating on security threats and vulnerabilities, and applying all required security controls in accordance with relevant policies

  • Identification and mitigation of all risks for services in
    production

  • Executing and managing operational projects to ensure delivery as per agreed timelines and scope

  • Liaise with developers and other IT personnel for problem resolution

    Qualifications

  • Matric / Grade 12 essential

  • 3-year degree / diploma Bachelor’s Degree or diploma in Computer Science, Information Systems, or similar qualification

  • Min 5 years’ experience in a IT operations or Software development/maintenance role

  • Min 3 years’ experience working with programming and scripting languages, such as JAVA, C#, Python, Ruby, Bash/Shell etc.

  • Experience with supporting / maintaining JAVA applications preferred

  • Min 3 years’ experience with Linux/Unix operating systems

  • Min 3 years’ experience with containerisation related management stacks like Docker, Swarm, Kubernetes

  • Solid understanding of source code management, compilers, build configuration languages, automated build tools, package managers, and installers

  • Experience and knowledge of IP networks and related solutions preferred

  • Experience designing large-scale distributed systems preferred

  • Software design and development experience preferred

  • Experience with Database technologies - RDBMS, e.g. MySQL, MSSQL, PostGreSQL, Oracle
    Strong SQL Scripting skills preferred

  • Knowledge of incident and problem management processes preferred

  • Experience with Cloud-native architectures, including public cloud PaaS / IaaS, micro-services architectures, APIs will be an advantage

  • Strong problem solving skills and ability to adapt to new methods and processes

  • Strong relationship building, persuasion, and collaboration skills that drives internal-and cross-team constructive feedback and support

  • Strong communications skills and time-management skills, with the ability manage multiple tasks, and work well under pressure

  • Experience in monitoring technologies and APM (Application Performance Management) tools

  • Experience and knowledge of Financial and Payment solutions preferred

    How to Apply

    For more information and job application details, see; Deloitte Consulting - Core Business Operations: Operations Transformation - Service Engineer/IT Ops Jobs in South Africa

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