Job title : Multi - Discipline Specialist Job Location : Gauteng, Johannesburg Deadline : January 02, 2025 Quick Recommended Links Jobs by Location Job by industries Job Purpose To provide guidance and advice related to the integration of solutions across technologies; ensuing all outputs are in compliance with current governance and legislation and provide IT leadership based on IT and business acumen Software Stack Skills Required OpenShift: OpenShift Container Platform: For container orchestration and management.
Streams for Apache Kafka: Use the Streams for Apache Kafka operator to deploy and manage Kafka clusters on OpenShift.
Kafka: Apache Kafka: For distributed messaging and real-time data streaming.
Kafka Connect: To integrate Kafka with various data sources and sinks.
(confirm) Kafka Streams: For stream processing within Kafka.
(confirm) Java: JDK (Java Development Kit): Preferably JDK 17 or later for development.
Spring Boot: For building microservices and RESTful APIs.
Kafka Clients: Java clients for producing and consuming messages from Kafka.
C#: (Optional) .NET Core/ASP.NET Core: For building cross-platform applications and services.
SQL Database: PostgreSQL, MySQL, or Microsoft SQL Server: A powerful, open-source relational database system.
DB2: The system will still use DB2.
Any popular open or closed source relational database will be suitable as a skill. Observability Framework: Prometheus: For monitoring and alerting, especially in Kubernetes environments.
Grafana: For visualizing metrics collected by Prometheus.
OpenTelemetry: For collecting logs, metrics, and traces from your applications.
Jaeger: For distributed tracing to monitor and troubleshoot transactions in complex microservices environments.
Fluentd: For log collection and aggregation.
DevOps and CI/CD: Jenkins or GitLab CI/CD: For continuous integration and deployment pipelines.
Helm: For managing Kubernetes applications.
Prometheus and Grafana: For monitoring and observability.
This comprehensive stack ensures seamless integration of container orchestration, real-time data streaming, application development, robust data management, and observability Job Responsibilities Consult and provide advice on the use of the multiple technologies.
Address the needs of the bank by deploying, supporting and configuring multiple technologies.
Develop solutions using knowledge of the technologies.
Ensure ongoing availability within the SLA requirements.
Ensure maximum exploitation of the multiple technology features across multiple business initiatives.
Identify further opportunities for use of the technologies.
Contribute to a culture of transformation by participating in Nedbank culture building initiatives, business strategy, and CSI.
Stay abreast of developments in field of expertise, ensuring personal and professional growth.
Understand and embrace the Nedbank vision and values, leading by example.
Seek opportunities to improve business processes, models and systems.
Participate in Research and Development related to specific.
Ensure alignment with emerging technologies, and impact on Nedbank technologies and legislative requirements.
Provide problem solving in high impact incidents.
Present to stakeholders on any impact or change to multiple technologies.
Engage with vendors related to multiple technologies.
Meet bank's needs by presenting on the exploitation of the technologies.
Become a trusted consultant by providing trustworthy information and acknowledge if advice cannot be provided.
Expand IP beyond own technology speciality.
Break down components of end to end design and defined logical units of work.
Raise unallocated or missing components of design with project lead.
Validate the individual design components and integrate these into end to end design.
Ensure test strategy covers full end to end design.
Provide integration solutions and validate the technical component design.
Review and approve component designs.
Consult on the resolution of high impact problem solving across.
Participate in Severities (Sev's) and provide expert guidance and solutions on technical problems.
Provide the application flow.
Document and maintain the end to end design.
Build end to end design and release to stakeholders.
Ensure alignment to IT strategy to architecture roadmaps.
Upskill all stakeholders.
Lead end to end design on project.
Ensure awareness of Group Technology initiatives and standards.
Support the achievement of the business strategy, objectives and values.
Enable skilling and required corrective action to take place by sharing knowledge and industry trends with team.
Obtain buy-in for developing new and/or enhanced processes to improve stakeholders' businesses.
Essential Qualifications - NQF Level Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees Essential Certifications Accredited where formal expert certification on technology is available JMP or MMP or equivalent Minimum Experience Level 10- 15 years experience in an IT environment across infrastructures of which at least 2 years in a senior role from feeder areas ICT jobs