Job Description

Empowering Africaxe2x80x99s tomorrow, togetherxe2x80xa6one 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 Apply critical thinking & problem solving skills to contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle & quickly produce well-organised, optimized, and documented source code to deliver high-performing, scalable, enterprise-grade applications.CIB Payments Technology - Core Banking Multi-Currency is looking for a passionate and motivated Software Developer with Cloud Infrastructure experience.We are a legacy application evolving to more modern applications, our area provides forex payments capabilities through various systems and processes.As a team we continuously strive to streamline our processes and ways of working, creating room for innovation, a culture of learning, trust and empowerment, recognition, work-life harmony and diversity & inclusion.Key critical technical requirements:

• Min 3 - 5 years hands on software development experience
• Relevant B-Degree in Computer Science preferred but not essential if minimum requirements of experience & practical application is evident
• Experience working in an agile environment
• Excellent communication, analytical skills and decision making ability in collaborative environments
• Solid understanding of Object Oriented Design and ability to properly apply general design patterns and
• paradigms

Cloud Infrastructure (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure)Kubernetes and Containerization (Docker):

• Docker experience for containerization and deployment is crucial

Microservices Architecture:

• Microservices architecture, candidates should have experience designing, building, and deploying microservices.
• Understanding inter-service communication, service discovery, and deployment pipelines is important.
• Knowledge of tools for monitoring and maintaining microservices like Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK stack will be beneficial.

Programming Languages:

• Proficiency in languages commonly used in cloud-native environments, such as Python, Java, or Scala, is essential.

API Development and Integration:

• Skilled in creating and consuming RESTful and potentially GraphQL APIs.
• Experience in secure API design, API gateways, and working with authentication methods like OAuth2 is important.

Event-Driven Architecture:

• Familiarity with event-driven systems and message brokers (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ) for handling asynchronous tasks and real-time data processing.

SQL and Distributed Databases:

• Experience with databases like, MongoDB, SQL to work with large, distributed datasets. Understanding of database scaling, replication, and handling transactions in distributed environments.

DevOps and CI/CD:

• Since cloud-native development relies heavily on continuous integration and delivery, developers should have hands-on experience with DevOps practices.
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI, or CircleCI to automate the build and deployment pipelines.

Security and Compliance:

• Security is paramount.
• Knowledge of cloud security best practices, data encryption, identity and access management (IAM), and compliance standards like PCI-DSS and GDPR.

EducationBachelor'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

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