Job Description

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.

Job Summary:

We are seeking a Platform Engineer with a strong developer background to join our team. We are building an application

platform similar to Heroku, Cloud Foundry, or the platform engineering reference architectures developed by Mckinsey

and Humanitec.
This role will focus on building the Control Plane/orchestration layer of this platform. The Control Plane is

being built using the Kubernetes, specifically leveraging Crossplane and developing in-house CRDs and associated

controllers to extend the Kubernetes API.
The ideal candidate is one that understands how to build and run applications,

is enthusiastic about building a platform to remove that toil from developers day to day lives, and is willing to deep dive

into the world of Kubernetes development to deliver.

Key Responsibilities:

Design and implement the control plane of our application platform using Kubernetes.

Develop and maintain custom CRDs (Custom Resource Definitions) and controllers to extend Kubernetes functionality

for our platform.

Utilise Golang to build Services, Controllers, and Crossplane Functions

Ensure availability, and performance of the platform

Automate deployment, monitoring, and management processes using CI/CD pipelines and GitOps principles.

Requirements:

At least 5 years of developer experience - understanding how applications are built and run is important.

Strong experience in any typed programming language (Golang, Rust, C++, Java, C#, Typescript, etc)

Strong understanding of Kubernetes architecture and running applications on Kubernetes. Experience running or

deploying Kubernetes clusters themselves is not required.

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Good communication and collaboration skills.

Ideal Certifications or experience:

Experience with Golang development

Experience with Helm, Kustomize, Argo CD, Flux or related deployment tools.

Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK stack.

Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)

AWS certified cloud practitioner or AWS Associate level certifications

What would make you a good fit?

Want to learn or expand your Kubernetes knowledge?

Want experience with DevOps tooling?

Have a light-hearted sense of humour?

Enjoy learning new technologies?

Can deal with the large cognitive load that platform engineering presents?

Love problem solving?

Want to solve technical problems for technical peers instead business problems for business

owners?

Have a positive can-do attitude with matching enthusiasm?

Have excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Can work within a team and communicate effectively.
Able to work within an autonomous self-organising team.

Do you have any standards or ways of working you could contribute that the team currently

does not have?



What you can look forward to:

Flexible working hours

Free access to Enterprise grade training and certification (AWS, Kubernetes, ACloudGuru,

Udemy)

Access to cool tools and tech (Miro, Slack, JetBrains, Rancher etc)

No uniform or corporate wear
Education
Bachelor's Degree: Information TechnologyAbsa 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