Absa Bank Careers
Empowering Africa’s tomorrow, together…one story at a time.
With over one hundred years of wealthy records and strongly located as a nearby financial institution with regional and worldwide expertise, a profession with our household affords the chance to be section of this interesting boom journey, to reset our future and structure our future as a proudly African group.
Job Summary
Apply platform engineering expertise, necessary thinking, sketch questioning and trouble fixing competencies in an agile group surroundings to produce well-organised, optimised and documented supply code that efficiently supplies platform aspects & factors of the carrier & solves complicated technical troubles with excessive great solutions.
Job Description
Platform Engineering, Deployment & Optimisation
Leverage platform engineering understanding & a working understanding of unique structures and their constituent components to positively make a contribution to platform characteristic and provider designs
Take accountability for deeply grasp & constructing information on the platform, the platform contribution to the broader platform method & enterprise and consumer necessities & all handy technologies
Develop enterprise & consumer aligned, lasting & revolutionary platform characteristic sets
Positively make contributions to, outline & put into effect the development/engineering lifecycle (end to end) and lead lifecycle upgrades over successive releases.
Produce simple, extensible, and maintainable facets with very few defects. Continually works to locate and repair defects.
Identify patterns that expose mistakes and unanticipated problems, and have an effect on telemetry analytics graph decisions
Identify & Apply metrics to power the satisfactory and steadiness of code
Ensure consistent, usable, forward-looking, maintainable take a look at infrastructure
Apply object oriented plan in improvement & draw from a massive base of sketch patterns
Uphold our technical concepts of: self-service, scalability, re-usability, resilience & steadiness in all improvement practices and supply characteristic units that sustainably supply on these principles
Proactively become aware of improvement practices that work nicely & leverage & enhance these for future answer plan and deployment
Based on platform knowledge and a sound expertise of the commercial enterprise & purchaser requirements
Consistently grant key thoughts for the enhancement & optimization of the platform
Develop & report entire designs and put into effect checking out procedures that pick out and eradicate platform or service-wide troubles / enhance on platform performance
Demonstrate a robust dedication to the first-rate & ongoing satisfactory assurance of the product/service’s in use, and take excellent motion to unravel troubles during the lifecycle of the product or service
Ensure alignment to platform and provider launch plans for fantastic deployment of answer designs
Drive & enforce layout evaluate strategies & practices with the crew & take part & positively make contributions to plan critiques for the characteristic place led through others
Cascade evaluation instructions learnt for the advantage of the broader team
Enable trouble decision throughout technical teams, follow and or facilitate root purpose analysis, deeply apprehend the root reasons of problems and discover methods to unravel them (sustainably)
Continuously evaluate & discover approaches to optimize crew approaches & improve engineering quality, productivity, and group responsiveness to comments and altering priorities
Optimize, refactors and reuse aspects to enhance overall performance and maintainability – making sure most efficiency, effectiveness, and return on investment
Take accountability for keeping platform requirements and exceptional practices, and force adoption throughout more than one carrier teams
Demonstrate expertise of, perceive & discover required statistics for the ongoing monitoring & enchancment of the platform function area
Proactively display the overall performance of the platform elements & solutions
Translate monitoring facts into truely articulated descriptions of possibilities & defects, their affect to the purchaser situation and to the product or provider as a whole, and the relevance to product and carrier objectives (within scope of the job).
Cascade and talk these insights throughout the group to have an effect on platform choice making
Leverage manufacturing overall performance monitoring and patron information to make function vicinity technical diagram and implementation decisions.
Synthesize information from a couple of sources and existing & outline concise, impactful conclusions that affect characteristic groups to resolve defects and meet fine targets
Accountability: Financial & Cost Optimization, Risk & Governance
Understand the platform fee mannequin & the top of the line value : serve of the platform, use this appreciation to power the platform effectivity & effectiveness objectives
Participate in incident administration & DR recreation – applying crucial thinking, trouble fixing & technical information to get to the backside of most important incidents
Apply Group threat (e.g. Architecture, development, exchange & release etc.), governance, compliance & regulatory requirements and frameworks
Proactively pick out technical dangers and mitigate these (pre, throughout & put up release)
Update / Design all function documentation aligned to the agency technical requirements and threat / governance frameworks
Accountability: People
Proactively & correctly (time & quality) collaborate & pressure collaboration on aspects throughout characteristic crew (e.g. managing dependencies & interdependencies, fighting resolution, statistics & first-rate exercise sharing, trouble decision outdoor of very own vicinity etc.)
Apply collaboration capabilities in improvement practices & difficulty decision regardless of crew boundaries & lead verbal exchange with applicable stakeholders thru to conclusion
Contribute to a excessive overall performance group surroundings & lifestyle as a excessive performing member of a self-directed crew aligned to agile working
Leverage teaching methods in all crew associated endeavor to force a greater exceptional service, sketch and deployment of technical solutions.
Proactively are looking for & furnish remarks throughout a vary of stakeholders for the gain of the group & leverage remarks to constantly enhance platform answer delivery
Coach & mentor different engineers & help engineering groups on technical options and trouble decision & proactively are seeking teaching & mentoring from others
Participate in peer reviews, testing, hassle fixing inside and throughout the broader team
Cascade platform overall performance remarks and make sure functionality improvement throughout groups to allow environment friendly & high-quality platform provider delivery
Drive the sketch of content, equipment & substances for approach alignment, training & adoption procedures to be utilized throughout stakeholder groups
Experience Required:
At least five years’ trip on Windows Server structures – 2019-2025 , AWS and Azure
At least MCSE 2019 certificate
Knowledge of SCCM / SCOM fundamentals
Extensive ride on cluster – From server 2016 to Active / lively continually on MS 2022 clusters
Understand VMWare (Server Virtualization)
Understand and construct Power Shell Scripts from scratch
AD information – Understanding of DNS, DHCP, and GPOs
Operational maturity – Understand and recognize Incident, Change and Problem administration principles.