Technical Specialist

FNB South Africa; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 600 000 - 800 000; Full time

Job summary

A financial institution is seeking a Technical Specialist in Johannesburg to manage Red Hat servers, provide application support, and design infrastructure solutions. The ideal candidate will have proficiency in RHEL and expertise in DevOps tools. This role offers a dynamic environment encouraging innovation and professional growth, with generous benefits including health programs and professional development resources.

Benefits

Opportunities to network and collaborate

Inspiring work environment

Focus on health and wellbeing

Generous leave policy

Preferential employee banking rates

Qualifications

• Experience managing and maintaining Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers.
• Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Manage and maintain RHEL servers.
• Provide Level 2 / 3 support for business-critical applications.
• Design and maintain infrastructure solutions.

Skills

RHEL

Bash

Python

Ansible

Jenkins

Docker

Prometheus

Grafana

Tools

GitLab

OpenShift

Tekton

Job description

Technical Specialist

Gauteng, Johannesburg

Deadline: November 30, 2025

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• To plan, design and build an Information Technology (IT) infrastructure architecture usually at an enterprise level to meet business requirements

Are you someone who can do the following :

System Administration (Red Hat Linux)

• Manage and maintain Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) servers.
• Perform patching, upgrades, performance tuning, and troubleshooting.
• Implement security hardening and compliance (SELinux, firewalld, auditing).

Application Support

• Provide Level 2 / 3 support for business-critical applications running on RHEL.
• Monitor application logs, resource usage, and dependencies.
• Work with developers to troubleshoot performance, integration, and deployment issues.

Infrastructure Engineering

• Design and maintain infrastructure solutions (on-prem or cloud-hosted).
• Capacity planning and scaling.
• Storage, networking, and backup integration into application environments.

DevOps & Automation

• Write playbooks / roles for configuration management and automation.
• Standardize server builds and patching automation.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for repeatable deployments.

CI / CD Pipelines

• Build and maintain CI / CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI, Tekton).
• Automate build, test, and deployment processes.
• Integrate static code analysis, unit testing, and artifact management.

Kubernetes / Containerization

• Deploy, manage, and troubleshoot applications in Kubernetes / Openshift.
• Build and manage container images (Docker, Podman).
• Ensure proper monitoring, logging, scaling, and failover strategies.

Operational Support

• Incident, Problem, and Change management (ITIL-aligned).
• Root cause analysis and long-term remediation.
• On-call participation for critical infrastructure / application issues.
• Monitoring (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK / EFK, Splunk).

Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement

• Work closely with Developers to support application deployment and performance.
• Partner with QA / Testing teams to align environments with testing needs.
• Collaborate with Infrastructure Architects on solution design.
• Guide junior engineers and act as a technical SME (Subject Matter Expert).

Key Skills

• OS / Infra: RHEL, systemd, networking (TCP / IP, DNS, load balancing).
• Scripting: Bash, Python (for automation and integration).
• DevOps Tools: Ansible, Git, Jenkins, GitLab, ArgoCD / Tekton.
• K8s / Openshift: Deployment, Helm, Operators, namespaces, RBAC, secrets / configmaps.
• Monitoring / Logging: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK / EFK, Splunk.
• Security & Compliance: Patching, vulnerability management, IAM.

Soft Skills

• Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills.
• Communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Documentation and knowledge sharing.
• Adaptability across infrastructure and application layers.

Dare to imagine the change with us if you are :

• An adaptable problem solver who does not fear change but thrives from it.
• A disruptor in your field of IT expertise.
• An initiative taker who identifies opportunity and improves.
• Known for your delivery track record.
• Wanting to be in a career that makes meaningful contribution to your and other people's lives.

You’ll benefit from our changeable benefits like :

• Opportunities to network and collaborate.
• Inspiring work environment.
• Work that is challenging.
• Space to make a difference.
• Opportunities to innovate.
• Conditions that are flexible.
• Focus on health and wellbeing (onsite wellness center, gym and crèche at our main campus to innovative employee wellbeing and financial fitness programmes).
• Resources to help you with your professional development.
• Generous leave policy.
• Preferential employee banking rates.
• When it comes to learning and development, we encourage our changeable to expand their knowledge, on their own, with others, in person or online.
• As for our workspace, it is immersive, collaborative, and energetic because at FNB, innovation is our lifeblood and change in our DNA.

End Date: November 8, 2025