Time left to apply: End Date: October 30, 2024 (5 days left to apply)
Job Requisition ID: R-15968650
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 and build capability in others to do the same. This includes 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 and leading all phases of the development lifecycle to deliver.
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 and solutions support the technical organization principles of self-service, repeatability, testability, scalability, and resilience
• Apply general design patterns and paradigms to deliver technical solutions
• Create and maintain sophisticated CI/CD pipelines (authoring and supporting CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins/Azure DevOps or similar tools and deploy to multi-site environments – supporting and managing your applications all the way to production)
• Use and configure modern observability techniques to provide a deeper understanding of the application. To do this, leverage aggregated logging via ELK stack, metrics via Prometheus/Grafana, and distributed tracing like Zipkin/Jaeger etc.
• 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 etc.)
• Apply version control and related concepts and techniques
• Align all application development and development processes to Group Architecture, Security, and Infrastructure guidelines
• Work with project and program teams (when required) to plan and manage the development lifecycle (e.g. releases, risk management, testing, integration etc.)
• Conduct reviews, performance monitoring, and ongoing optimization and maintenance on applications
• Stay ahead of the curve on emerging technologies and development practices (e.g. scripting languages, containerization etc.)
• Contribute to the design and evolution of Group Architecture, Infrastructure, and 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 TerraformExperience 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, and Google Cloud Platform.Certification AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate certification would be advantageousYour 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. About UsTruly AfricanWe are a diversified standalone African financial services group, delivering an integrated set of products and services across personal and business banking, corporate and investment banking, wealth, investment management, and insurance.
Absa Group Limited is listed on the JSE and is one of Africa's largest diversified financial services groups with a presence in 12 countries across the continent and around 41,000 employees.
We own majority stakes in banks in Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius, Mozambique, the Seychelles, South Africa, Tanzania (ABSA Bank in Tanzania and National Bank of Commerce), Uganda, and Zambia. We also have offices in China, Namibia, Nigeria, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America, a Technology Hub in Prague, and insurance operations in Botswana, Kenya, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, and Zambia.
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