Company Description

Standard Bank Group is a leading Africa-focused financial services group, and an innovative player on the global stage, that offers a variety of career-enhancing opportunities – plus the chance to work alongside some of the sector’s most talented, motivated professionals. Our clients range from individuals, to businesses of all sizes, high net worth families and large multinational corporates and institutions. We’re passionate about creating growth in Africa. Bringing true, meaningful value to our clients and the communities we serve and creating a real sense of purpose for you.

Job Description

To create a bridge between development and operations by applying a software engineering mindset to system administration. Focusing on operations/on-call duties and developing systems and software that help increase site reliability and performance, while building self-service tools for users that rely on such services. To collaborate with product developers to ensure that the designed solution responds to non-functional requirements and contribute to a number of products or work streams relating to the design and implementation of Cloud solutions, operating across a number of Service Teams within SBSA. Provide routine maintenance of the current Linux and Solaris infrastructure including OS system patching, OS upgrades, user management, file management etc.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications
First Degree: Information Technology

Certification:

Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) RHEL 8 or RHEL 9

Red Hat Certified Engineer – Ansible Automation

AWS Practitioner or Associate

SRE (Site Reliability Engineering)

Experience Required

10 years + Linux System Administration.  

Experience in use, administration and routine maintenance of Linux and Solaris operating systemsWorking knowledge of Host Virtualization, preferably on VMware and AWSExperience with VxCFS (Veritas Cluster File System)

5-7 years Software Engineering.  

Be familiar with systems and configuration management tools (e.g. Ansible and Terraform)Continuous Integration or Continuous Delivery processes in engineering teams, integrating test automation into various points in a deployment pipelinePrior programming background in at least one or more languages: C, C++, Java, Perl, Python, Go, or scripting experience in Shell and Perl.

3-4 years    

Using production systems and technologies, for example load balancing, monitoring, distributed systems, microservices, configuration management.Designing and executing small scale systems automation projects with strong autonomy.Be familiar with software engineering best practices such as testing, continuous integration and continuous deliveryExperience in monitoring and metrics collection tools such as AppDynamics, Prometheus, Nagios and Graphite.

Additional Information

Behavioral Competencies:

Adopting Practical ApproachesArticulating InformationChecking DetailsDeveloping ExpertiseDocumenting FactsEmbracing ChangeExamining InformationInterpreting DataManaging TasksProducing OutputTaking ActionTeam Working

Technical Competencies:

Agile DevelopmentApplication SupportDesign PatternsDEVOPSInfrastructure as Code (IaC)Software ContainersTesting (unit, regression, integration)Write Code