KEY Responsibilities

Release & Deployment Management

• Manage end-to-end application release and deployment activities for ITS Oracle applications.
• Create, package, validate, and deploy software builds, patches, service packs, and hotfixes.
• Apply release governance and code freeze processes aligned to deployment schedules.
• Coordinate deployment schedules, maintenance windows, and planned downtime with internal stakeholders and clients.
• Execute deployments across development, testing, staging, pre-production, and production environments.
• Ensure successful rollback planning, deployment recovery procedures, and release validation.
• Troubleshoot deployment and environment issues in collaboration with developers, DBAs, QA, infrastructure, and support teams.
• Monitor release integrity, deployment success, and operational stability across environments.
• Ensure deployment processes support high availability, operational continuity, and minimum business disruption.

DevOps Engineering & Automation

• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines supporting Oracle-based enterprise applications.
• Automate build, deployment, validation, monitoring, and operational processes where possible.
• Improve deployment efficiency, reliability, repeatability, auditability, and release traceability.
• Implement deployment scripting, release automation, and orchestration solutions.
• Support environment standardisation, configuration management, and deployment governance.
• Select, configure, and optimise DevOps, deployment, and CI/CD tooling.
• Drive continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment initiatives aligned to business and operational requirements.

Oracle Application & Database Support

• Support Oracle application deployments and environment management activities.
• Work closely with DBAs on database releases, deployment scripts, schema changes, database objects, and performance considerations.
• Support and troubleshoot Oracle-based technologies including:
• Oracle Database
• Oracle APEX
• Oracle ADF
• ORDS (Oracle REST Data Services)
• PL/SQL
• Java
• XML
• REST APIs and Web Services
• Assist with SQL performance tuning, deployment verification, and post-release validation.
• Monitor and validate application and database deployment dependencies.

Environment & Infrastructure Management

• Setup, configure, and maintain deployment target environments.
• Support Unix/Linux deployment and middleware environments.
• Support application middleware, integration services, and deployment infrastructure.
• Ensure deployment environments remain secure, stable, scalable, and operationally compliant.
• Support infrastructure automation and environment provisioning initiatives where applicable.
• Collaborate with infrastructure teams to improve deployment reliability and operational resilience.

Security, Governance & Compliance

• Implement secure DevOps and deployment practices.
• Ensure compliance with SDLC, software change control, release management, governance, and audit requirements.
• Identify, assess, and mitigate deployment and infrastructure-related risks.
• Continuously perform deployment validation, vulnerability reviews, and operational risk assessments.
• Support remediation of security and operational incidents, including root cause analysis.
• Maintain deployment documentation, release notes, rollback procedures, operational runbooks, and technical standards.
• Promote secure deployment, operational stability, and production governance best practices.

Monitoring, Operational Support & Continuous Improvement

• Monitor build, deployment, and operational performance metrics.
• Support monitoring, logging, tracing, and observability initiatives.
• Investigate operational bottlenecks, deployment failures, and performance issues.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives across software delivery, release engineering, and operational processes.
• Support proactive optimisation of deployment pipelines and operational environments.
• Assist with production support activities during deployments and critical releases.

Collaboration, Mentorship & Stakeholder Engagement

• Collaborate with developers, DBAs, testers, business analysts, UI/UX teams, architects, infrastructure, and product teams.
• Work closely with stakeholders to ensure end-to-end software delivery quality.
• Provide technical advice and recommendations regarding release engineering, deployment strategies, automation, and operational improvements.
• Remove technical impediments impacting software distribution and deployment efficiency.
• Mentor junior technical resources and share deployment and DevOps best practices.
• Conduct internal technical knowledge-sharing and training where required.

QUALIFICATION AND EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS

• BSc in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field; or National Diploma (NDip) in Information Technology, Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Development, or related field.
• Relevant certifications in DevOps, Cloud, Infrastructure, Oracle, Security, or Software Engineering will be advantageous.
• 5–8 years’ experience in software development, DevOps engineering, deployment engineering, release engineering, or related technical roles.
• Experience working within Agile software development environments.
• Experience managing enterprise application deployments and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience supporting Oracle enterprise application ecosystems.
• Experience with both on-premise and cloud-enabled (Hybrid) infrastructure environments will be advantageous.

TECHNICAL SKILLS & COMPETENCIES

 Core Oracle & Enterprise Technologies

• Oracle Database
• PL/SQL
• SQL Developer
• SQL Performance Tuning
• Oracle APEX
• Oracle ADF
• ORDS (Oracle REST Data Services)
• Java
• XML
• REST APIs and Web Services

 DevOps, Release Engineering & CI/CD

• Jenkins
• Azure DevOps
• Git/GitHub/SVN
• CI/CD pipeline design and implementation
• Build and release management
• Deployment automation and orchestration
• Environment management
• Software distribution processes
• Software change control processes

 Operating Systems & Scripting

• Unix/Linux
• Shell scripting
• PowerShell
• Python advantageous

 Infrastructure & Automation

• Infrastructure as Code concepts advantageous
• Infrastructure automation tooling advantageous
• Load balancing and network-aware deployments advantageous
• Virtualisation technologies advantageous

 Advantageous Technologies

• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP)