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 Work as part of an integrated (run & build) tribe in lower complexity environments to provide enterprise wide application support across multiple stakeholder groups by maintaining & optimizing enterprise-grade applications (tech products & services).Devops & Support
Application Monitoring & Performance Management

• Integration and Support: Responsible for integrating systems with various networks across Africa, particularly in telecom environments. This involves handling complex technical tasks like managing PostgreSQL and MongoDB databases, and supporting Java-based applications. His role also includes maintaining legacy systems and migrating them to modern infrastructure.
• Platform Management: Manages platforms such as Open Accounts, IMX, and risk assessment tools. This involves both support and limited development work, particularly in environments where the backend is often managed by third-party vendors.
• Basic Automation: Writing Ansible playbooks and using Jenkins for deployments

Key critical requirements:

• Attend to Start Of Day (SOD) and End of Day (EOD) monitoring on PROD systems.
• Conduct ongoing configuration, optimization (e.g. upgrades) & maintenance activity (e.g. regular maintenance patches) on our application.
• Conduct Managing DR testing, including continued development of the application and security, software patches, reliability, disaster recovery
• Conduct Day to day support on applications interacting with the business stakeholders.

Experience:

• 5 years in Applications Support
• 5 years TECHNOLOGY experience
• Preferred some experience within Absa

Tools:

• SNOW
• PostgSQL / SQL Data Bases
• MS Excel

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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