Intermediate DevOps Engineer

Intermediate DevOps Engineer

Apply: Remote type - Hybrid | Locations: Randburg | Time type: Full time | Posted on: Posted Yesterday | Time left to apply: End Date: October 30, 2024 (5 days left to apply) | Job requisition ID: R-15968649

Empowering Africa’s tomorrow, together…one story at a time.

With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group. Job Summary Build high-performing, scalable, enterprise-grade applications & build capability in others to do the same. This includes but is not limited to applying critical thinking, design thinking and problem-solving skills in an agile team environment to solve complex technical problems (Front End, Back End, and Integration) with high-quality solutions & leading all phases of the development lifecycle to deliver. If you are looking for an innovative environment working within a dynamic team, then come join us! Job Description DevOps • Apply critical thinking, design thinking and problem-solving skills in an agile team environment to solve complex technical problems (Front End, Back End, and Integration) with high-quality solutions. • Contribute to and in some cases lead all phases of the development lifecycle including the design process. • Determine operational feasibility of solutions by evaluating analysis, problem definition, business requirements, solution development, and proposed solutions. • Quickly produce well-organized, optimized, and documented source code to deliver technical solutions. • Ensure designs & solutions support the technical organization principles of self-service, repeatability, testability, scalability & resilience. • Apply general design patterns and paradigms to deliver technical solutions. • Create & Maintain Sophisticated CI / CD Pipelines (authoring & supporting CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins / Azure DevOps or similar tools and deploy to multi-site environments). • Use & configure modern observability techniques to provide a deeper understanding of the application, leveraging aggregated logging via ELK stack, metrics via Prometheus / Grafana, and distributed tracing like Zipkin/Jaeger. • Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting e.g., Docker, Ansible, Kubernetes. • Debug existing source code and polish feature sets. • Work with guilds and other technical SMEs to improve and evolve technical products and services. • Apply unit testing frameworks and perform integration, validation, and verification testing (apply knowledge of stubbing tools e.g., Wiremock, Hoverfly). • Apply version control and related concepts and techniques. • Align all application development & development processes to Group Architecture, Security & Infrastructure guidelines. • Work with project & program teams (when required) to plan & manage the development lifecycle e.g., releases, risk management, testing, integration. • Conduct reviews, performance monitoring & ongoing optimization and maintenance on applications. • Stay ahead of the curve on emerging technologies and development practices e.g., scripting languages, containerization. • Contribute to the design & evolution of Group Architecture, Infrastructure & associated technical standards for the organization. What you need to get in: Skills:

• Strong understanding and hands-on experience with OS environment scripting (e.g., PowerShell).
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like AWS CloudFormation and Terraform.
• Experience with branch services (will be an advantage).
• Strong understanding of version control and related concepts and techniques.
• Experience with Cloud platforms e.g., Azure, AWS , & Google Cloud Platform.

Certification:

• AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate certification would be advantageous.

Your inquisitive mind, collaboration, drive, and a passion for technology in a fast-paced environment might just make this your best career move! Education: Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank. Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised. #J-18808-Ljbffr