JOB DESCRIPTION:Job Title:Product EngineerEmployment Type:9 Months Contract (Renewable), HybridWork Location:JohannesburgDUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:1.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.Evaluate analysis, problem definition, business requirements, solution development & provide recommendations to enable the operational feasibility of solutions.Quickly produce well-organised, optimized, and documented source code to deliver technical solutions.Ensure designs & solutions support the technical organisation 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 (authoring & supporting CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins / similar tools and deploying to multi-site Kubernetes environments supporting and managing your applications all the way to production).Use & 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 & development process to Group Architecture & Infrastructure guidelines.Provide input into project & program teams (when required) to plan & manage the development lifecycle e.g. releases, risk management, testing, integration etc.Conduct reviews, performance monitoring & ongoing optimization and maintenance on applications.Stay ahead of the curve on emerging technologies and development practices and continuously evolve existing knowledge & skill in preparation for cross domain and other experiences e.g. Secure Side, Testing, Infrastructure solutions etc.2.People:Conduct peer reviews, testing, problem solving within and across the broader team.Support the people change teams in the development of user material (Customer, Employee & 3rd Party Adoption).3.Risk & Governance:Identify technical risks and mitigate these (pre, during & post release).Update / Design all application documentation aligned to the organization technical standards and risk / governance frameworks.Participate in incident management & DR activity applying critical thinking, problem solving & technical expertise to get to the bottom of major incidents.OTHER REQUIREMENTS:Create efficient and logical solution designs for clients.Design and code superior technical solutions.Easily recognize system deficiencies and implement effective solutions.Create and execute project work plans and revise as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements.Communicate and enforce coding standards.Consistently deliver high-quality services to clients.Possess significant knowledge of client server and internet systems architectures.Understand the benefits of the various design methodologies and object-oriented environments.Proactively seek opportunities to serve in leadership roles.Challenge others to develop as leaders while serving as a role model.Manage the process of innovative change.Conduct effective progress evaluations in a timely manner.Seek and participate in development opportunities above and beyond required training.Train other employees through both formal and informal training programs.Suggest areas for improvement in internal processes along with possible solutions.TECHNICAL SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:5+ years of enterprise level experience in IT.Solid troubleshooting skills.Enterprise experience in maintaining supporting Postgres.Solid skills in SQL.Strong Development skills (Springboot).Configuring builds and deployments on CI/CD tools (Jenkins).Willingness to solve DevOps/Support/Maintenance problems Git.Familiarity with general monitoring principles and tools (Grafana, New Relic, Splunk, ELK stack).Agile Methodology.Atlassian Stack (Jira, Confluence, GitHub, Service Desk).Containerization (Docker) plus orchestration (Kubernetes or Rancher, OpenShift).Good written and spoken English.Strong knowledge of integration between systems (MQ, REST, SOAP, File, Kafka).Docker Knowledge.Strong Java Script Skills (Angular, React).UX design.BENEFICIAL SKILLS:Experience in (Java script angular, react).Experience in developing/supporting (Java script angular, react) applications.SOLID & OOP & Design Patterns (including DI, IoC, etc.).Linux administration skills.Message brokers and queues (Kafka or RabbitMQ).WCF and REST web services.Unit and Integration Testing.Cloud experience (AWS).Experience in Finance domain.PACKAGE & REMUNERATION:Compensation will be determined based on qualifications, applicable experience, and previous earnings.
