Job Description
This is an excellent opportunity for a Platform Specialist / Engineer to MOVE INTO A MORE STRATEGIC ROLE with one of the country's biggest, most innovative financial service providers.
Based in the NORTHERN SUBURBS, this role is paying between R 1.3m - R 1.5m per annum
THE COMPANY:
One of South Africa's most innovative Financial Services organisations specializing in Asset Management, Investments, Risk Management, Insurance, Employee Benefits and Healthcare.
THE ROLE:
As the Platform Specialist within the Architecture team, you will not only be responsible for ensuring the stability and availability of IT platforms, but also play a significant role in their design and improvement.
In addition to this, the role will also entail the following:
- Improving monitoring & alerting frameworks to be more proactive in solving and identifying problem areas.
- Productionizing delivered projects in conjunction with the Plan and Build Teams
- Monitor, troubleshoot and provide advanced java core dump & thread dump root cause analysis
- Improvement of processes and procedures
- Task Automation
- Mentor, support and mature the DevOps team and competency within the organisation
- Foster and ensure collaboration between local and off shore teams
REQUIRMENTS:
- Degree or comparable qualifications within the technical space
- A minimum of 5 years hands-on experience developing and supporting a diverse set of infrastructure technologies.
- Strong infrastructure, platform and Java development knowledge
- High level of competency in root cause analysis
Solid Experience with:
- OS: Linux and Windows administration and automation
- Network Fundamentals
- Scripting - Python, JavaScript, Shell etc.
- Ansible, Websphere wsadmin configuration and deployment tools
- CI tools such as Jenkins, Gitlab,
- Source control tools and techniques: Subversion, Git, Semantic versioning
- Nexus, Artifactory, Sinopia or similar artefect management tools
- Monitoring and trending metrics utilizing ELK and TICK stacks
- Web Security
- DB2, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MSSQL databases
- Servers: Springboot, Nodejs, Nginx, JEE Servers (Websphere, Wildfly)
- Docker, Kubernetes, IIS
- AWS, Azure
Should you be interested in applying, please send an updated copy of your CV to philip@acuityconsultants.co.za