Senior Software Developer, Reliability

Company Description

Standard Bank Group is a leading Africa-focused financial services group, and an innovative player on the global stage, that offers a variety of career-enhancing opportunities – plus the chance to work alongside some of the sector’s most talented, motivated professionals. Our clients range from individuals, to businesses of all sizes, high net worth families and large multinational corporates and institutions. We’re passionate about creating growth in Africa. Bringing true, meaningful value to our clients and the communities we serve and creating a real sense of purpose for you.

Job Description

To create a bridge between development and operations by applying a software engineering mindset to system administration. To focus on operations/on-call duties and developing systems and software that help increase site reliability and performance. To build self-service tools for users that rely on such services; to collaborate with product developers to ensure that the designed solution responds to non-functional requirements such as availability, performance, security, and maintainability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science 
• At least 10-12 years programming experience using Java or .Net/C#
• At least 5-7 years’ experience building Site Reliability and Monitoring capabilities.
• At least 5 year experiences in SQL and/or database technologies.
• Exposure to AWS or Azure cloud technologies
• Exposure to CI/CD pipelines will be advantageous
• Knowledge of Systems Development Life Cycle processes/governance 
• Experience using a variety of Observability tools/products like Splunk, App Dynamics, Elastic search, Kibana, Logstash etc 

Additional Information

Behavioral Competencies:

• Adopting Practical Approaches
• Checking Details
• Documenting Facts
• Examining Information
• Taking Action
• Analytical Thinking

Technical Competencies:

• Infrastructure and Platforms Support
• Strong stakeholder engagement competencies