APS.13.26 - Site Reliability Engineer - SRE (DevOps)

Job Description

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.