Sandton: Specialist Product Engineer

Job Summary

DevOps – Apply critical thinking, design thinking and problem solving skills in an agile team environment to solve technical problems (Front End, Back End OR Middleware) with high quality solutions – Contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle including – Evaluate analysis, problem definition, business requirements, solution development & provide recommendations to enable the operational feasibility of solutions – Quickly produce well-organised, optimized, and documented source code to deliver technical solutions – Ensure designs & solutions support the technical organisation principles of self-service, repeatability, testability, scalability & resilience – Apply general design patterns and paradigms to deliver technical solutions – Support the development of CI / CD Pipelines (authoring & supporting CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins / similar tools and deploying to multi-site Kubernetes environments supporting and managing your applications all the way to production) – Use & configure modern observability techniques leveraging e.g. aggregated logging via ELK stack, metrics via Prometheus / Grafana / NewRElic and tracing using Zipkin/Jaeger – Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting e.g. Jenkins, Docker, Ansible, Kubernetes – Debug existing source code and polish feature sets. – Work with integrated teams and other developers to improve and evolve technical products and services – Align all application development & development process to Group Architecture & Infrastructure guidelines – Provide input into project & program teams (when required) to plan & manage the development lifecycle e.g. releases, risk management, testing, integration etc. – Conduct reviews, performance monitoring & ongoing optimization and maintenance on applications – Stay ahead of the curve on emerging technologies and development practices and continuously evolve existing knowledge & skill in preparation for cross domain and other experiences e.g. Secure Side, Testing, Infrastructure solutions etc. People – Conduct peer reviews, testing, problem solving within and across the broader team – Support the people change teams in the development of user material (Customer, Employee & 3rd Party Adoption) Risk & Governance – Identify technical risks and mitigate these (pre, during & post release) – Update / Design all application documentation aligned to the organization technical standards and risk / governance frameworks – Participate in incident management & DR activity applying critical thinking, problem solving & technical expertise to get to the bottom of major incidents

Requirements:

– Create efficient and logical solution designs for clients – Design and code superior technical solutions – Easily recognize system deficiencies and implement effective solutions – Create and execute project work plans and revise as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements – Communicate and enforce coding standards – Consistently deliver high-quality services to clients – Possess significant knowledge of client server and internet systems architectures – Understand the benefits of the various design methodologies and object oriented environments – Proactively seek opportunities to serve in leadership roles – Challenge others to develop as leaders while serving as a role model – Manage the process of innovative change – Conduct effective progress evaluations in a timely manner – Seek and participate in development opportunities above and beyond required training – Train other employees through both formal and informal training programs – Suggest areas for improvement in internal processes along with possible solutions Technical skills and experience required: – 5 years of enterprise level experience in IT – Solid troubleshooting skills – Enterprise experience in maintaining supporting Postgres – Solid skills in SQL – Strong Development skills (Springboot) – Configuring builds and deployments on CI/CD tools (Jenkins) – Willingness to solve DevOps/Support/Maintenance problems Git – Familiarity with general monitoring principles and tools (Grafana, New Relic, Splunk, ELK stack) – Agile Methodology – Atlassian Stack (Jira, Confluence, Github, Service Desk) – Containerization (Docker) plus orchestration (Kubernetes or Rancher, OpenShift) – Good written and spoken English – Strong knowledge of integration between systems (MQ, REST, SOAP, File, Kafka) · Docker Knowledge Strong Java Script Skils (Angular, React) UX design Methodologies required (Mandatory Skills): – 5 years of enterprise level experience in IT – Solid troubleshooting skills – Enterprise experience in maintaining supporting Postgres – Solid skills in SQL – Strong Development skills (Angular/react) – Configuring builds and deployments on CI/CD tools (Jenkins) – Willingness to solve DevOps/Support/Maintenance problems Git – Familiarity with general monitoring principles and tools (Grafana, New Relic, Splunk, ELK stack) – Agile Methodology – Atlassian Stack (Jira, Confluence, Github, Service Desk) – Containerization (Docker) plus orchestration (Kubernetes or Rancher, OpenShift) – Good written and spoken English – Strong knowledge of integration between systems (MQ, REST, SOAP, File, Kafka) · Docker Knowledge Strong Java Skils (Quarkus, Springboot) Beneficial Skills (Desired Skills): – Experience in (Java script angular, react) – Experience in developing/supporting (Java script angular, react) applications – SOLID & OOP & Design Patterns (including DI, IoC, etc.) – Linux administration skills – Message brokers and queues (Kafka or RabbitMQ) – WCF and REST web services – Unit and Integration Testing – Cloud experience (AWS) – Experience in Finance domain Responsibilities – Create efficient and logical solution designs for clients – Design and code superior technical solutions – Easily recognize system deficiencies and implement effective solutions – Create and execute project work plans and revise as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements – Communicate and enforce coding standards – Consistently deliver high-quality services to clients – Possess significant knowledge of client server and internet systems architectures – Understand the benefits of the various design methodologies and object oriented environments – Proactively seek opportunities to serve in leadership roles – Challenge others to develop as leaders while serving as a role model – Manage the process of innovative change – Conduct effective progress evaluations in a timely manner – Seek and participate in development opportunities above and beyond required training – Train other employees through both formal and informal training programs – Suggest areas for improvement in internal processes along with possible solutions

Specialist Product Engineer position available in North Johannesburg, Sandton. This job position was posted by . The job has been posted on 2024-10-09 in the It Computing Software category

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