Role description

An Automation or Integration Engineer (DevOps) is primarily responsible for managing all aspects of DevOps, and is proficient in tools for source control, continuous integration, Infrastructure as Code, containerisation and team management. Engineers of this discipline have a sound understanding of cloud architecture and services and are responsible for providing expert advice with regards to cloud integration.

This role is a technical, services orientated role that collaborates closely with architects, developers, and administrators. This role is responsible for automating all stages of testing, development, administration and maintenance.

Automation and Integration Engineers are responsible for automating task wherever possible, continuous delivery, configuration management, and the deployment of modules, upgrades and hot fixes within production environments. Routine maintenance is an ongoing task, therefore, engineers of this discipline are often the same technicians performing second or third level support on systems and applications. Their primary functions cross and merge the barriers that exist between traditional software development, testing and operations teams and keep existing networks in mind as they design, plan and test. This role has experience with modern DevOps tools, such as Jenkins and Azure DevOps and GitHub. In this category of ICT engineering, the engineer has a strong background in scripting and development that underpins automation, and continuous delivery.

Responsibilities

•Identify and automate points of manual work when onboarding new systems and products.
• Maintain existing integration and delivery pipelines and ensure processes are standardised and reused.
• Provide Infrastructure as Code (IaC) support to all development and production environments.
• Maintain, configure and develop dynamic containerised environments in support of development and production. This ranges from greenfield serverless environments to full stack brownfield environments.
• Reduce the time it takes to build, deploy, and configure software to all environments.
• Joint owner of all development and release tooling, processes and architecture.
• Assists in developing application monitoring solutions across cloud and on-prem solutions.
• Work with development and operations teams to offer automation as a service across domains, products and services.