Job Description

Job SummaryJOB DESCRIPTION:Job Title: Product Engineer (x2)
Employment Type: 12 Month Contract (Renewable), Hybrid
Work Location: JohannesburgDUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:1. DevOps:

• 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.
• Contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle.
• Evaluate analysis, problem definition, business requirements, solution development & provide recommendations to enable the operational feasibility of solutions.
• Quickly produce well-organised, optimized, and documented source code to deliver technical solutions.
• Ensure designs & solutions support the technical organisation principles of self-service, repeatability, testability, scalability & resilience.
• Apply general design patterns and paradigms to deliver technical solutions.
• 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).
• Use & configure modern observability techniques leveraging e.g. aggregated logging via ELK stack, metrics via Prometheus / Grafana / NewRElic and tracing using Zipkin/Jaeger.
• Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting e.g. Jenkins, Docker, Ansible, Kubernetes.
• Debug existing source code and polish feature sets.
• Work with integrated teams and other developers to improve and evolve technical products and services.
• Align all application development & development process to Group Architecture & Infrastructure guidelines.
• Provide input into project & program teams (when required) to plan & manage the development lifecycle e.g. releases, risk management, testing, integration etc.
• Conduct reviews, performance monitoring & ongoing optimization and maintenance on applications.
• 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.

2. People:

• Conduct peer reviews, testing, problem solving within and across the broader team.
• Support the people change teams in the development of user material (Customer, Employee & 3rd Party Adoption).

3. Risk & Governance:

• Identify technical risks and mitigate these (pre, during & post release).
• Update / Design all application documentation aligned to the organization technical standards and risk / governance frameworks.
• Participate in incident management & DR activity - applying critical thinking, problem solving & technical expertise to get to the bottom of major incidents.

OTHER REQUIREMENTS:

• Create efficient and logical solution designs for clients.
• Design and code superior technical solutions.
• Easily recognize system deficiencies and implement effective solutions.
• Create and execute project work plans and revise as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements.
• Communicate and enforce coding standards.
• Consistently deliver high-quality services to clients.
• Possess significant knowledge of client server and internet systems architectures.
• Understand the benefits of the various design methodologies and object-oriented environments.
• Proactively seek opportunities to serve in leadership roles.
• Challenge others to develop as leaders while serving as a role model.
• Manage the process of innovative change.
• Conduct effective progress evaluations in a timely manner.
• Seek and participate in development opportunities above and beyond required training.
• Train other employees through both formal and informal training programs.
• Suggest areas for improvement in internal processes along with possible solutions.

TECHNICAL SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

• 5+ years of enterprise level experience in IT.
• Solid troubleshooting skills.
• Enterprise experience in maintaining supporting Postgres.
• Solid skills in SQL.
• Strong Development skills (Springboot).
• Configuring builds and deployments on CI/CD tools (Jenkins).
• Willingness to solve DevOps/Support/Maintenance problems Git.
• Familiarity with general monitoring principles and tools (Grafana, New Relic, Splunk, ELK stack).
• Agile Methodology.
• Atlassian Stack (Jira, Confluence, GitHub, Service Desk).
• Containerization (Docker) plus orchestration (Kubernetes or Rancher, OpenShift).
• Good written and spoken English.
• Strong knowledge of integration between systems (MQ, REST, SOAP, File, Kafka).
• Docker Knowledge.
• Strong Java Script Skills (Angular, React).
• UX design.

BENEFICIAL SKILLS:

• Experience in (Java script - angular, react).
• Experience in developing/supporting (Java script - angular, react) applications.
• SOLID & OOP & Design Patterns (including DI, IoC, etc.).
• Linux administration skills.
• Message brokers and queues (Kafka or RabbitMQ).
• WCF and REST web services.
• Unit and Integration Testing.
• Cloud experience (AWS).
• Experience in Finance domain.

PACKAGE & REMUNERATION:

• Compensation will be determined based on qualifications, applicable experience, and previous earnings.

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