Specialist DevOps

Role purpose:
The Devops Specialist DLS is responsible for the planning, coordination, and deployment of all releases into production within a particular domain or business outcome

Devops Specialist DLS will be responsible for leading technical delivery within Digital and Lifestyle Services (DLS). Be proficient in integration, Micro Service API development and design. Provide high level support to resolve complex integration design and development problems. Provide architectural and integration guidance to all systems and project streams ensuring that best practises and governance are adhered to in the development of solutions for Vodacom.

This role is responsible for implementing various development, testing, automation tools and IT infrastructure within DLS.

This role requires experience with building APIs, integrating with Enterprise Systems and 3rd party systems, with proven experience in architecting and refactoring complex systems.

This role is responsible for identifying, managing, and mitigating risks and issues, in order to facilitate on-time delivery of capabilities and features aligned to the business outcome vision

This role is responsible for working closely with the domain or business outcome Product Manager and supporting Product Owners to coordinate delivery of capabilities

This role is responsible for defining release readiness requirements against business outcome needs and validating readiness before release into production

The role requires deep analytical abilities in system design and requirements decomposition, ability to understand business problems and requirements and design systems to meet both the functional and non-functional requirements.

The role requires experience with CI/CD practices, pipelines, containers/containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and micro services patterns.

The role is responsible to implement and give guidance around cloud services within DLS, contribute to best practice use of cloud services within Azure, Google and AWS cloud platforms.

The role is responsible for KPI management and ensuring mandates of uptime, latency, and resilience are met and are consistently above mandated levels.

The role will be responsible for identifying and deploying cybersecurity measures by continuously performing vulnerability assessment and risk management.

The role will be responsible to ensure that monitoring and alerting are up to date and has a wide coverage to identify and remedy incidents, and prevent outages.

The role will handle problem management and trend analysis identifying recurring issues and root causes while implementing preventative measures or mechanisms to identify issues faster.

The role will be responsible for vendor management within the team.

The role will require squad leadership, providing guidance to the squad within DLS

The role will be responsible managing periodic reporting on the progress to the management and the business stakeholders.

Your responsibilities will include:
Drive release planning sessions

Facilitate the resolution of impediments and risks within span of influence. Once an impediment is outside of a Scrum Masters span of influence this role will step in to remove or escalate the impediment

Work with other program leaders to drive the definition and refinement of the program backlog and execution alignment.

Maintain metrics that provide visibility to stakeholders on program-level plans, progress and quality.

Support Product Owners with various requirements gathering and scrum activities as needed

Help to assure value delivery

Manage program planning of engineering delivery

Monitor and facilitate programs

Manage the deployment of all releases into production and define / assess release readiness according to business requirements

Coordinate and communicate the release pipeline to deliver frequent releases across business outcomes; manage external dependencies, ensuring alignment across key partners and vendors

Continuously improve release processes, implementing best practices consistent with agile methodologies

Oversee squads focused on technical issues, including software development, product releases, and engineering tasks. This includes collaborating with colleagues to address technical issues and evaluating the team's work processes and best practices and implementing changes to streamline operations.

Create and implement risk mitigation processes and oversee security audits to determine weaknesses in applications.

Play a key role in the development of new ideas for products and services and manage the process of turning these ideas into realities. This could include participating in product brainstorming meetings, overseeing the creation of product mock-ups, and identifying possible design flaws until the resulting product is satisfactory.

Work to set up the process by which the product will be produced on a larger scale and figure out how it will be distributed to consumers.

Play an important role in the development cycle, ensuring the quality of requirements and directing the activities of the design team. This role requires excellent attention to detail, as the SPECIALIST frequently needs to work with the solution analysist and participate in translating them into a solutions that align with enterprise-level systems.

In addition to guiding the squads, this role is responsible for participating in the research on existing systems and devising solutions that work within those systems.

Develop Specifications

ART Scope

Lead The squads : internal and external

Interface Directly Business Stakeholders

Manage sourcing relationships and external vendors

The ideal candidate for the role will have:
Technical / professional qualifications:
3 Year Degree / equivalent Diploma /equivalent Certificate in Information Technology / Business / Project Management (essential), and

2 -3 years Integration, Development and Design experience preferably in a highly complex environment (essential).

Extensive experience in managing dependencies effectively across multiple delivery teams, meeting deadlines and business outcome objectives

Formal training and/or certification in Scaled Agile Framework or similar preferred

Certified Agile Coach, Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Professional Scrum Master (PSM) or similar

Experience with project management tools e.g. JIRA, MS Project

Professional experience and knowledge of digital and Telecommunications industries strongly preferred

Core competencies, knowledge, and experience:
Integration, development and design

Change control procedures

Project management fundamentals

Technology / Industry trends

Java Development

Linux

Networking

Agile Framework

GSM /Telcos

Cloud technology

API development

Problem Solving Skills Are Essential
Decision making skills are essential

Analytical Skills Are Essential
Interpersonal skills are essential

Presentation Skills Are Essential
Facilitation skills are essential

Analysing and Integration design

Applying Expertise and Technology

Relating and Networking

Delivering Results and Meeting Customer Expectations

Deciding and Initiating Action

Writing and Reporting

Persuading and Influencing

Adapting and Responding to Change original High Importance

Coping with Pressures and Setbacks original High Importance

Closing date for Applications: 14 August 2023
The base location for this role is, Vodacom Campus, Midrand.
The Companys approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.

Vodacom is committed to an organisational culture that recognises, appreciates and values diversity & inclusion.