Site Reliability Engineer

Through our client-facing brands Metropolitan and Momentum, with Momentum Multiply (our wellness and lifestyle rewards programme), and our other specialist brands, including Guardrisk and Eris Property Group, the group enables business and people from all walks of life to achieve their financial goals and life aspirations.

We help people grow their savings, protect what matters to them and invest for the future. We help companies and organizations care for and reward their employees and members. Through our own network of advisers or via independent brokers and utilizing new platforms Momentum Metropolitan provides practical financial solutions for people, communities, and businesses. Visit us at www.momentummetropolitan.co.za

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Role Purpose

This position requires implementing, enabling and facilitating DevOps practices and infrastructure within teams.

Requirements

Requirements

• Computer Science Degree
• Min 5 years of relevant experience
• Solid Experience and Understanding architecture and implementation
  
  

Technical Mandatory:

• WebSphere Application Server ND 8.5 or higher
• WebSphere Liberty
• Microsoft IIS
• Springboot
• Unix experience
• Cloud technologies (AWS / Azure)
• Platform Development (Ansible, Python, bash, wsadmin, GIT, Jenkins, Flyway, Maven, Python)
• Nginx
• Docker, Kubernetes
• Artifactory, Sonatype Nexus, Gitlab
• Monitoring (Datadog, Prometheus, Kibana and Grafana
  
  

Advantageous:

• Websphere MQ
• Tivoli LDAP 6.3 or higher
  
  

Additional requirements: Exposure to the following is an added benefit:

• IBM WebSphere Portal
• Monitoring (Alerta, Sentry, Chronograf, Selenium)
  
  

Duties & Responsibilities

• Research and review relevant IT trends and best practices
• Implement and maintain the infrastructure required for implementing DevOps practices.
• Enable automated deployment of applications and configurations.
• Enable automated monitoring and alerting.
• Enable automated end-to-end testing.
• Enable continuous release processes, practices, and pipelines.
• Enable change management and audit requirements for release pipelines.
• Interest in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
• Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with strong communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive.
• Ability to program (structured and OOP) using one or more high-level languages, such as Python, Java, C#, TypeScript
• Ability to debug and optimize code and automate routine tasks.
• Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms such as easy-to-use tooling and automation
• Practice sustainable incident response and drive root case analysis.
• Collaborate with development teams and other stakeholders to identify potential risks and remediation
• Proactive approach to identifying problems, performance bottlenecks, and areas for improvement
• Platform Development (Pulumi, Terraform, CloudFormation, Resource Manager, Ansible, Python, wsadmin, GIT, Gitlab CI, Jenkins)
  
  

Competencies

• Excellent problem-solving, organizational and communication skills;
• System analysis skills;
• Must be willing to work after hours and perform standby duties on multiple applications;
• Must be able to work under pressure;
• Must be a team player and able to build relationships;
• Must be detail-oriented