Overnight Support Engineer – Commercial Lending Tech

Absa Group; Sandton; On-site; ZAR 480,000 - 700,000; Full time

Job summary

Absa Group is seeking a Support Engineer to operate overnight across the Commercial Lending technology estate. You will monitor batch processing, investigate incidents, and coordinate resolutions with internal teams and vendors.

The role requires practical Linux and SQL skills, basic development background, and the ability to work independently during night shifts. AWS familiarity is advantageous as the estate moves to cloud.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology or equivalent.
• 4+ years in application/production support or SRE/ops roles.
• Experience with Linux, SQL and batch processing environments.

Responsibilities

• Provide overnight operational support for Commercial Lending applications and services.
• Monitor batch processing, interfaces, system health and supporting infrastructure.
• Investigate and resolve production incidents and coordinate with teams.
• Perform log analysis and root cause analysis to restore services.
• Maintain documentation and shift handovers.

Skills

Linux administration

SQL

Bash scripting

Incident management

Production support

Monitoring

Root cause analysis

Automation

Change management

Release management

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology

Tools

Git

HTML

CSS

JavaScript

PHP

AWS

Hadoop

Job description

Absa Group is seeking a Support Engineer to operate overnight across the Commercial Lending technology estate. You will monitor batch processing, investigate incidents, and coordinate resolutions with internal teams and vendors.

The role requires practical Linux and SQL skills, basic development background, and the ability to work independently during night shifts. AWS familiarity is advantageous as the estate moves to cloud.