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