New Job Vacancy Randburg at ABSA Bank Limited South Africa - API Gateway Platform Engineer

ABSA Bank Ltd South Africa

Jobs27 | South Africa Jobs 2020: New Jobs Vacancies at ABSA Group Limited-  South Africa, 2020

Jobs27 | South Africa Jobs 2020

About Us 
Truly African
We are a diversified standalone African financial services group, delivering an integrated set of products and services across personal and business banking, corporate and investment banking, wealth, investment management and insurance.

Absa Group Limited is listed on the JSE and is one of Africa’s largest diversified financial services groups with a presence in 12 countries across the continent and around 41 000 employees.

Absa Group Limited is listed on the JSE and is one of Africa’s largest diversified financial services groups with a presence in 12 countries across the continent and around 41 000 employees.
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We own majority stakes in banks in Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius, Mozambique, the Seychelles, South Africa, Tanzania (ABSA Bank in Tanzania and National Bank of Commerce), Uganda and Zambia. We also have representative offices in Namibia and Nigeria, as well as insurance operations in Botswana, Kenya, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania and Zambia.

Position: API Gateway Platform Engineer
Location: Randburg
Bring your possibility to life! Define your career with us
With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.
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Job Summary
Apply platform engineering expertise, critical thinking, design thinking and problem solving skills in an agile team environment to produce well-organised, optimised and documented source code that successfully delivers platform features & components of the service & solves complex technical problems with high quality solutions.

Job Description
Are you ready to make a difference?
Join an exciting and dynamic team of Platform Engineers, who are responsible for shaping the technical API economy for the bank.

Work within the Platforms and Engineering Gateway technology tribe responsible for the development, design and run of the API Gateway platform on-premise and in AWS Cloud. Apply platform engineering expertise, critical thinking, design thinking and problem solving skills to produce well-organized, optimized and documented source code that successfully delivers platform features, components of the service and solves complex technical problems with high quality solutions.

What you’ll get to do

• Leverage platform engineering expertise and a working knowledge of Cloud based infrastructure and their constituent parts to positively contribute to platform features and service designs
• Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting e.g. Jenkins, Docker, Ansible, Kubernetes, Python, Terraform, Cloud automation tools eg. Cloudformation
• Use and configure modern observability techniques leveraging e.g. aggregated logging via Elastic Search stack, metrics via Grafana as well as Cloud based monitoring tools eg. Cloudwatch, Cloudtrail
• Uphold our technical principles of: self-service, scalability, re-usability, resilience & stability in all development practices and deliver feature sets that sustainably deliver on these principles
• Develop and document complete designs and implement testing processes that identify and eradicate platform or service-wide problems / improve on platform performance
• Enable problem resolution across technical teams, apply and or facilitate root cause analysis, deeply understand the root causes of issues and find ways to resolve them (sustainably)
• Optimize, refactor and reuse components to improve performance and maintainability – ensuring maximum efficiency, effectiveness, and return on investment
• Contribute to a high performance team environment by coaching and mentoring other engineers, support engineering teams on technical solutions and problem resolution, and proactively seek coaching and mentoring from others

What do you need to get in?

• 3 - 5 years solid experience in scripting languages e.g. Python, JavaScript, Bash scripting, XSLT
• Solid understanding of messaging protocols and API technologies like SOAP and REST
• 3 – 5 years solid experience with CI / CD tools (like Jenkins, Ansible, GIT, Terraform)
• 3 – 5 years solid experience on analytics tools and Big Data Platforms like Elastic Search, Hadoop
• 3 - 5 years solid experience with Cloud based infrastructure eg AWS
• Solid understanding and experience with Web Security protocols like OAuth, Open Connect ID
• 3 - 5 years solid experience with Containerisation technologies like Docker, VMware ,Open shift, Kubernetes and Rancher

If you’re passionate about working in a fast-paced environment and contributing to the exciting world of Platform Engineering by leading from the front, we would love to hear from you!

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Education
Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology
Deadline: 06th November, 2020.

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