Intermediate Deployment Administrator

Reporting to the Manager: IT Operations, the role will be responsible to handle code deployments, configuration management and implementing departmental and industry best-practices security standards in all PPS environments effectively within the DevOps.   Furthermore, responsible to monitor the application environment via monitoring dashboards, provide capacity trends and highlight performance bottlenecks. * Documenting operational procedures (maintenance, user administration, server standards, etc) * Working closely with IT teams – Database Admins, Developers, Application Support, Deploy, Testing, and IT Infrastructure * Monitoring and enforcing the usage of the process and procedures * Implementing departmental and industry best practice security standards * Mitigating the risk to ensure minimal downtime and system availability by ensuring best support practices are in place * Managing CI and CD tools with team and collaborating with other teams to plan and create workflow processes, develop automation procedures, deploy updates. * Monitoring the application environment via monitoring dashboards, provide capacity trends and highlight performance bottlenecks * Technical guidance and educate team members and co-workers on deployments, development, and operations * Analysing, solving, and correcting issues in real-time * Taking ownership, leading and coordinating operational tasks, customer escalations, process improvements * Performing scheduled maintenance and support release deployment activities after hours * Providing on-call rotation support for critical production systems * Refining and automating regular processes, track issues, and document changes. * Assisting Developers with query tuning and schema refinement * Monitoring system's health and performance * Ensuring the system is running smoothly * Escalating issues within a reasonable time for quicker resolution *Education: * * Matric (Grade 12) * Bachelor’s degree/Diploma in Information Technology/Systems or Computer Science, Engineering, Software Engineering or equivalent * ITIL Foundation * Microsoft and Linux Certification or proven years of experience     *Experience:* * 5+ years’ solid previous experience in software deployments, development and operations, or related IT, computer, or operations. * 3+ years IT operation with strong understanding of deployment processes and standard best practices. * Experience with Microsoft and Linux infrastructure, database SQL (MS SQL), CI/CD tools, scripting such as JavaScript, PHP, Python, Perl, Ruby, .NET, Scrum/Kanban * Solid previous experience with software development, infrastructure development, or development and operations * SAFe, Agile workflow methodologies * Deployment Platform tools - Docker, GitLab, Bitwise   *Knowledge and Skills:* * Solid acquaintance with Windows and Linux servers, and security delegation. * Documentation skills for process