Senior Release and Deployment Specialist (DevOps)

JOB TITLE

Senior Release and Deployment Specialist (DevOps)

LEVEL/BAND

Project

DEPARTMENT

Technology

DIRECT REPORT (JOB TITLE)

Senior Automation & Release Engineer

Overall Purpose of the Position

APS Bank is seeking an experienced and motivated candidate to join our dynamic DevOps team and play a key role in transforming our technology landscape. This role offers exciting opportunities to work across diverse DevOps streams, with particular responsibilities linked with setup and implementation of CI/CD pipelines, devising deployment strategies, performing production changes, driving analysis and investigation on issues, co-ordination of changes, certificate and password changes and other day-to-day operations.

With a focus on automation, innovation, and adherence to best practices, the selected candidate will be driving efficiency and contribute to building cutting-edge solutions while working with a broad range of modern technologies.

Operational Responsibilities

Work closely with other teams during the definition of new systems architecture, ensuring alignment with established guidelines, security policies, and industry best practices.

Responsible for implementation of documented changes and awareness of their impact on the Bank’s plethora of applications/systems in line with governance guidelines and procedures with a focus on continuous improvement and automation.

Implementation and maintenance of CI/CD pipelines for seamless installation and deployment across various environments ranging from development to production.

Collaborate with suppliers and third-party partners to ensure the delivery of business value and meet organisational goals

Assist the Team Lead in managing the DevOps function through coaching, mentoring, and providing guidance.

Update team documentation, including playbooks and operational guides, and lessons learned from incident resolution.

General Responsibilities

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support the Bank’s business operations through investigation of incidents, support day-to day tasks/queries, and ensure availability of operational services through uptime monitoring and routine maintenance.

To ensure compliance with Bank’s policies, guidelines and underlying procedures at all times.

Guide the team in developing automation for repetitive tasks to adopt a more agile approach.

Participate in on-call rotations for production support (for which separate renumeration will be provided).

To perform any other duties that may be reasonably assigned from time to time.

Qualifications, Skills & Competencies

Mandatory

Skill

Excellent troubleshooting and analytical skills.

Ability to use a vast range of technologies and tools.

Knowledge on programming languages and automation tools, including CI/CD through Azure DevOps or similar.

Knowledge of SOA architectures and principles.

Knowledge of Software design and architecture.

Good sound knowledge of Oracle,MS SQL databases.

Proficient in Server Administration and Networking Principles

Be organised, meticulous and prepared to work under pressure.

Have good verbal and written communication skills.

Experience

Have a minimum of 2 years working experience as a Software Developer, DevOps, or in a similar role.

Deploying, Supporting and maintaining business applications and services and their underlying systems.

Proficient in using PowerShell scripts.

Development experience with .NET framework

Proficient use of C#, JavaScript, SQL, and modern programming languages.

Ability to perform Supplier Management tasks.

Qualification

Possesses Masters/Degree/Diploma in IT, Computer Science or in a related field.

Knowledge on ITIL based/ITSM platforms

Desirable

Skill

Ability to perform API and Software Testing Automation activities

Experience

Experience with RPA tools such as BluePrism and Microsoft Power Platform Apps such as PowerAutomate.

Core enterprise-wide solutions, customer facing, administration, change management, NoSQL database principles.

Qualification

Qualifications related to IT best practices as ITILv4 and/or Software Testing.

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