Absa Specialist Platform Engineer - Data Center Connectivity Services Jobs in South Africa

Absa Specialist Platform Engineer - Data Center Connectivity Services Jobs in South Africa

Job Summary


Work within the Engineering, Service and Platforms Office (ESPO) – Data Center Connectivity Network team responsible for the development, design and run of the bank’s Inter-DC Connectivity, Internet Breakouts, and 3rd Party Connectivity services.

Apply platform engineering expertise, critical thinking, design thinking and problem-solving skills to produce well-organized, optimized, and documented source code that successfully delivers platform features, components of the service and solves complex technical problems with high quality solutions. Capable of resolving escalated issues arising from operations of the Data Center Connectivity Service.

Key accountabilities:

Leverage platform engineering expertise & a working knowledge of Network platforms and their constituent parts to positively contribute to platform feature and service designs

Take accountability for deeply understanding & building expertise on the platform, the platform contribution to the broader platform strategy & business and customer requirements & all available technologies

Develop business & customer aligned, lasting & innovative network platform feature sets

Produce simple, extensible, and maintainable features with very few defects. Continually works to find and fix defects.

Leverage platform (service design & code) & engineering technical expertise to proactively identify risks and prevent defects

Identify patterns that reveal errors and unanticipated problems, and influence telemetry analytics design decisions

Identify & Apply metrics to drive the quality and stability of network platforms

Ensure consistent, usable, forward-looking, maintainable test infrastructure

Apply object orientated design in development & draw from a large base of design patterns

Uphold our technical principles of: self-service, scalability, re-usability, resilience & stability in all development practices and deliver feature sets that sustainably deliver on these principles

Apply knowledge and expertise in User / Customer experience to deliver a stable user experience in all design & development that is simple, elegant, and useful.

Proactively identify development practices that work well & leverage & improve these for future solution design and deployment

Document feature set and constituent design information to produce solution design blueprints and validation collateral

Based on engineering & platform expertise and a sound knowledge of the business & customer requirements consistently provide key ideas for the enhancement & optimization of the platform

Develop & document complete designs and implement testing processes that identify and eradicate platform or service-wide problems / improve on platform performance

Demonstrate a strong commitment to the quality & ongoing quality assurance of the product/service’s in use, and take appropriate action to resolve issues throughout the lifecycle of the product or service

Ensure alignment to platform and service release plans for effective deployment of solution designs

Drive & implement design review processes & practices with the team & participate & positively contribute to design reviews for the feature area led by others

Apply expertise in engineering & available technologies to enable effective review processes

Cascade review lessons learnt for the benefit of the broader team

Enable problem resolution across technical teams, apply and or facilitate root

cause analysis, deeply understand the root causes of issues and find ways to resolve them (sustainably)

Continuously review & find ways to optimize team processes & improve engineering quality, productivity, and team responsiveness to feedback and changing priorities

Optimize, refactors and reuse components to improve performance and maintainability – ensuring maximum efficiency, effectiveness, and return on investment

Take accountability for maintaining platform standards and best practices, and drive adoption across multiple service teams

Demonstrate knowledge of, identify & find required data for the ongoing monitoring & improvement of the platform feature area

Proactively monitor the performance of the platform features & solutions

Translate monitoring data into clearly articulated descriptions of opportunities & defects, their impact to the customer scenario and to the product or service as a whole, and the relevance to product and service targets (within scope of the job).

Cascade and communicate these insights across the team to influence platform decision making

Leverage production performance monitoring and customer data to make feature area technical design and implementation decisions.

Synthesize data from multiple sources and present & define concise, impactful conclusions that influence

Role/Person specification:

Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems or related field is advantageous

7 or more years of general IT experience

Network routing – demonstrable Cisco CCNP equivalent experience in multi-area OSPF and BGP, route filtering and mutual redistribution of routing protocols, both IGP and BGP, use of VRF’s for traffic separation, route tagging, prefix-maps, etc.

Network switching - demonstrable Cisco CCNP equivalent experience in VLAN’s, VxLAN, Spanning-Tree (RSTP, MST, etc), 802.1Q trunk links, LACP, MLAG, P2P Ethernet links, QinQ, etc.

Network monitoring and alerting - demonstrable experience in the use of Solarwinds, Arista CVP, Wireshark, Netscout, Opsgenie or equivalent tools is compulsory.

Solid experience in managing high speed DWDM circuits (Ethernet over DWDM) as well as Metro-E circuits for national and international inter Data Centre connectivity.

Experience in the use of incident and problem management ticketing systems (e.g. ServiceNow).

Participation in root cause analysis and reporting.

Ability to work in high pressure environment

Ability to work after hours and do standby

If you’re passionate about working in a fast-paced environment and contributing to the exciting world of Data Center Connectivity Serices by leading from the front, we would love to hear from you!

Education

Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology

How to Apply

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