Product Engineer

Absa Group; Sandton; On-site; USD 20,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent financial institution is seeking a DevOps professional to support enterprise-grade application design and development. The role involves producing and maintaining source code, applying best practices, and contributing to a high-performing development team. Ideal candidates will have a Bachelor's Degree in IT and at least one year of relevant experience.

Qualifications

• Relevant Bachelor's Degree or National Diploma in IT required.
• Minimum 1 year of IT experience.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle.
• Produce well-organized and documented source code.
• Participate in incident management and disaster recovery activities.

Skills

Problem Solving

Automation

CI/CD

Integration

Messaging

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology

National Diploma in IT

Job description

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

With over 100 years of rich history and 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.

Job Summary

Support high-performing, scalable, enterprise-grade application design & development in agile teams by producing, testing, documenting, & reviewing source code.

Job Description

DevOps

• Contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle.
• Interpret analysis, problem definition, & business requirements to identify solution requirements (e.g., features).
• Produce well-organized and documented source code for technical solutions.
• Apply technical organization principles of self-service, repeatability, testability, scalability, & resilience in code development.
• Apply general design patterns and paradigms to deliver technical solutions.
• Debug existing source code and polish feature sets.
• Work with integrated teams and other developers to improve and evolve technical products and services.
• Study & apply Group Architecture & Infrastructure guidelines to all development work.
• Support reviews, performance monitoring, & ongoing optimization and maintenance on applications.
• Stay ahead of emerging technologies and development practices, and continuously evolve knowledge & skills in Automation, Integration, Messaging, CI/CD, etc.
• Update, create, and store application documentation & technical specifications appropriately.

Risk & Governance

• Participate in incident management & disaster recovery activities, applying critical thinking, problem-solving, & technical expertise to resolve major incidents.

Required Skills, Knowledge, and Experience

• Relevant Bachelor's Degree or National Diploma in IT.
• Minimum 1 year of IT experience.

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology.

Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups to contribute towards achieving demographic representation and diversity.

Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the advertised post.