Specialist Product Engineer

Absa Group; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 800,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Absa Group as a DevOps professional where you will leverage your critical thinking and problem-solving skills. You will contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle, produce optimized source code, and support CI/CD pipelines in an agile environment, ensuring resilient and scalable solutions for a proud African bank.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree is mandatory for this role.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and tools.
• Knowledge of observability tools such as ELK, Grafana, and Prometheus.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to all development lifecycle phases.
• Support development of CI/CD pipelines and multi-site deployments.
• Ensure solutions are scalable, resilient and aligned with architecture standards.

Skills

Problem Solving

Critical Thinking

Agile Methodologies

Collaboration

Automated Testing

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology

Tools

Jenkins

Kubernetes

Docker

Ansible

ELK Stack

Grafana

Prometheus

Job description

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

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.

Job Summary

Apply critical thinking & problem solving skills to contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle & quickly produce well-organised, 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 to enable operational feasibility.
• Quickly produce well-organised, optimized, and documented source code to deliver technical solutions.
• Ensure designs & solutions support principles of self-service, repeatability, testability, scalability & resilience.
• Apply general design patterns and paradigms to deliver technical solutions.
• Support the development of CI / CD Pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, Kubernetes) and deploy to multi-site environments.
• Use & configure modern observability tools (ELK stack, Prometheus, Grafana, NewRelic, Zipkin/Jaeger).
• Automate tasks using tools and scripting (Jenkins, Docker, Ansible, Kubernetes).
• Debug existing source code and enhance features.
• Collaborate with teams to improve technical products and services.
• Align development activities with Group Architecture & Infrastructure standards.
• Participate in project planning, risk management, testing, and deployment.
• Conduct reviews, performance monitoring, and ongoing optimization.
• Stay updated on emerging technologies and practices.

People

• Conduct peer reviews, testing, and problem solving.
• Support user material development for change management.

Risk & Governance

• Identify and mitigate technical risks.
• Maintain documentation aligned with standards.
• Participate in incident management and disaster recovery activities.

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology.

Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity employer. Preference will be given to candidates from designated groups to promote diversity.

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