Vacancies at ABSA Bank – Specialist Product Engineer

Job Description:

This Role is for an Engineer in Production support that includes 24/7 Standby responsibilities. Apply critical thinking to contribute to all phases of quick problem solving and business request handling. Apply critical thinking to contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle & quickly produce well-organized, optimized, and documented source code to deliver high-performing, scalable, enterprise-grade applications. Tune, enhance and maintain existing production processes. This is a key in the life of production support and an everyday task.

Job Responsibilities:

• Conduct reviews, performance monitoring & ongoing optimization and maintenance on applications
• Apply critical thinking and design thinking daily to ensure that production processes are performing optimally and develop and implement maintenance changes to processes where performance can be improved.
• Ensure designs & solutions support the technical organisation principles of self-service, repeatability, testability, scalability & resilience
• Align all application development & development process to Group Architecture & Infrastructure guidelines
• Contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle including
• Debug existing source code and polish feature sets.
• Stay ahead of the curve on emerging technologies and development practices and continuously evolve existing knowledge & skill in preparation for cross domain and other experiences e.g. Secure Side, Testing, Infrastructure solutions etc.
• Quickly produce well-organised, optimized, and documented source code to deliver technical solutions
• Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting e.g. Jenkins, Docker, Ansible, Kubernetes
• Provide input into project & program teams (when required) to plan & manage the development lifecycle e.g. releases, risk management, testing, integration etc.
• Use & configure modern observability techniques leveraging e.g. aggregated logging via ELK stack, metrics via Prometheus / Grafana / NewRElic and tracing using Zipkin/Jaeger
• Work with integrated teams and other developers to improve and evolve technical products and services
• Support the development of CI / CD Pipelines (authoring & supporting CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins / similar tools and deploying to multi-site Kubernetes environments – supporting and managing your applications all the way to production)
• Be available 24/7 to assist with any production related issues.
• Apply general design patterns and paradigms to deliver technical solutions
• Evaluate analysis, problem definition, business requirements, solution development & provide recommendations to enable the operational feasibility of solutions
• Apply critical thinking, design thinking and problem solving skills in an agile team environment to solve technical problems (Front End, Back End OR Middleware) with high quality solutions

Job Requirements:

• National Diplomas and Advanced Certificates
• Computer and Information Science (Required)

Job Details:

Company: Absa Group Limited

Vacancy Type:  Full Time

Job Location: Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa

Application Deadline: N/A

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