DevOps Engineer

Absa Group; Sandton; On-site; ZAR 40 000 - 80 000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a skilled DevOps Engineer to join their dynamic team. In this role, you'll leverage your critical thinking and problem-solving abilities to contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle. You'll work in an agile environment, producing high-quality, scalable applications while ensuring operational feasibility. This position offers the chance to work with cutting-edge technologies and methodologies, including CI/CD pipelines and Kubernetes. If you're passionate about technology and eager to shape the future of banking in Africa, this is the opportunity for you.

Qualifications

• Experience in developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong understanding of modern observability techniques.

Responsibilities

• Produce optimized and documented source code for enterprise applications.
• Collaborate with teams to improve technical products and services.

Skills

Critical Thinking

Problem-Solving

Agile Methodologies

CI/CD Pipelines

Design Patterns

Automation Scripting

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology

Tools

Jenkins

Docker

Ansible

Kubernetes

ELK Stack

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Empowering Africa’s tomorrow, together…one story at a time.

With over 100 years of rich history and a strong presence as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our organization offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future, and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.

Job Summary

Apply critical thinking and problem-solving skills to contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle. Quickly produce well-organized, optimized, and documented source code to deliver high-performing, scalable, enterprise-grade applications.

Job Description

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 analysis, problem definition, business requirements, solution development, and providing recommendations for operational feasibility.
• Produce well-organized, optimized, and documented source code to deliver technical solutions.
• Ensure designs and solutions support principles of self-service, repeatability, testability, scalability, and resilience.
• Apply design patterns and paradigms to deliver technical solutions.
• Support the development of CI/CD pipelines, including authoring and supporting pipelines in Jenkins or similar tools, and deploying to multi-site Kubernetes environments.
• Use and configure modern observability techniques, such as ELK stack for logging and Prometheus/Grafana for metrics.
• Automate tasks using tools and scripting, e.g., Jenkins, Docker, Ansible, Kubernetes.
• Debug existing source code and enhance features.
• Collaborate with integrated teams and other developers to improve technical products and services.
• Align application development and processes with Group Architecture and Infrastructure guidelines.
• Provide input to project and program teams on planning and managing the development lifecycle, including releases, risk management, testing, and integration.
• Conduct reviews, performance monitoring, and ongoing optimization and maintenance of applications.
• Stay updated on emerging technologies and development practices, continuously evolving skills for cross-domain experiences.

People

• Conduct peer reviews, testing, and problem-solving within and across teams.
• Support change management teams in developing user materials for customer, employee, and third-party adoption.

Risk & Governance

• Identify and mitigate technical risks pre, during, and post-release.
• Update and design application documentation aligned with organizational standards and frameworks.
• Participate in incident management and disaster recovery activities, applying critical thinking and technical expertise.

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology.

Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups to promote demographic diversity. Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the advertised post.