Empowering Africa’s tomorrow, together…one story at a time.
With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.
Job Summary
Known for its innovation and cutting-edge technology, this would be an excellent opportunity for someone looking to expand their industry knowledge and work with leading technology years ahead of its competitors.
This is a brilliant opportunity to work in SA’s best-rated banking environment with SA’s highly skilled Cloud professionals.
A cloud engineer is responsible for the setup and maintenance of cloud environments that enable our developers and product owners/senior users to experience mature and integrated development and deployment. The work of a cloud engineer brings full automation of the development to deployment production pipeline and rapid deployment of code to the team. It includes automation of code pulls, code integration and container builds, quality assurance, infrastructure, as well as the controls necessary for an appropriately administered delivery of code into production.
Job Description
Experience and qualifications
Must Have:
- Relevant degree
- Certification in the AWS Cloud Platform
- Experience as a cloud engineer (or equivalent) in a large organisation;
- Familiarity with program languages including .Net, PHP, Python and Selenium (Jscript)
- Experience with:
- Openstack, Linux, Amazon Webservices, Docker and Kubernetes
- APIs, orchestration, automation, DevOps, and databases
- Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a- Service (PaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
- Proven technical troubleshooting and performance-tuning experience.
Should Have:
- Bachelor of Science degree in computer science
- AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
- Certification in additional cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience with cloud services and practices, including:
- Cloud infrastructure management tools such as CloudFormation and Terraform
- Hashicorp packer image building tool
- Automation/configuration management using puppet or chef
Could Have:
- Evidence of experience in:
- Automation
- Ansible
- Jenkins
- Chef
- Puppet
Education
Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology
Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.
Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised
Top Skills
What We Do
Absa Group Limited (Absa) has forged a new way of getting things done, driven by bravery and passion, with the readiness to realise growth on the African continent and beyond.
We’re a truly African brand, inspired by the people we serve in Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius, Mozambique, Seychelles, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. We also have representative offices in China, Namibia, Nigeria and the United States, as well as securities entities in the United Kingdom and the United States, along with technology support colleagues in the Czech Republic.
