Senior Product Engineer: Agile, Cloud-native & Observability

Boardroom Appointments; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 850,000 - 1,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Boardroom Appointments seeks a Specialist Product Engineer in Johannesburg to design and deliver robust software solutions within an Agile team on Unix. You’ll contribute across the development lifecycle from analysis to production.

Required: 5+ years in development or systems analysis, 5+ years with UniBasic/UniVerse, and experience with CI/CD, Docker/Kubernetes, and modern observability tools. Strong problem solving and design thinking encouraged.

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in development or systems analysis.
• 5+ years experience with UniBasic and UniVerse.
• Must have work experience on Unix.
• Understanding of Agile Methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Apply critical thinking and problem solving in an agile team environment to solve technical problems with high quality solutions.
• Contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle from analysis to production deployment.
• Evaluate requirements and provide recommendations to enable feasibility of solutions.
• Produce organized, optimized, and well-documented source code.
• Support CI/CD pipelines and deploying to Kubernetes environments.
• Use observability tools (ELK, Prometheus, Grafana, New Relic) for monitoring.
• Automate tasks with Jenkins, Docker, Ansible, Kubernetes.
• Perform peer reviews and collaborate with integrated teams to evolve products.

Job description

Boardroom Appointments seeks a Specialist Product Engineer in Johannesburg to design and deliver robust software solutions within an Agile team on Unix. You’ll contribute across the development lifecycle from analysis to production.

Required: 5+ years in development or systems analysis, 5+ years with UniBasic/UniVerse, and experience with CI/CD, Docker/Kubernetes, and modern observability tools. Strong problem solving and design thinking encouraged.