Specialist Product Engineer

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

About the job Specialist Product Engineer

• Matric (Grade 12)
• Relevant B-Degree in Computer Science preferred but not essential if minimum requirements ofexperience and practical application are evident
• 5+ years experience in other Development or Systems Analysis
• 5+ years experience in software application languages UniBasic and UniVerse
• Must have work experience on Unix
• Must have an understanding of Agile Methodologies

Responsibilities

• 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
• Evaluate analysis, problem definition, business requirements, solution development and providerecommendations to enable the operational feasibility of solutions
• Quickly produce well-organised, optimized, and documented source code to deliver technical solutions
• Ensure designs and solutions support the technical organisation principles of self-service, repeatability, testability,scalability and resilience
• Apply general design patterns and paradigms to deliver technical solutions
• Support the development of CI / CD Pipelines (authoring and supporting
• CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins / similar toolsand deploying to multi-site Kubernetes environments supporting and managing your applications all the way toproduction)
• Use and configure modern observability techniques leveraging e.g. aggregated logging via ELK stack, metrics via
• Prometheus / Grafana / NewRElic and tracing using Zipkin/Jaeger
• Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting e.g. Jenkins, Docker, Ansible, Kubernetes
• Debug existing source code and polish feature sets.
• Work with integrated teams and other developers to improve and evolve technical products and services
• Align all application development and development process to Group
• Architecture and Infrastructure guidelines
• Provide input into project and program teams (when required) to plan and manage the development lifecycle e.g.releases, risk management, testing, integration etc.
• Conduct reviews, performance monitoring and ongoing optimization and maintenance on applications
• Stay ahead of the curve on emerging technologies and development practices and continuously evolve existingknowledge and skill in preparation for cross domain and other experiences e.g. Secure Side, Testing, Infrastructuresolutions etc.
• PeopleConduct peer reviews, testing, problem solving within and across the broader team
• Support the people change teams in the development of user material (Customer, Employee and 3rd PartyAdoption)
• Risk and Governance
• Identify technical risks and mitigate these (pre, during and post release)
• Update / Design all application documentation aligned to the organization technical standards and risk /governance frameworks
• Participate in incident management and DR activity applying critical thinking, problem solving and technicalexpertise to get to the bottom of major incidents