Specialist Product Engineer (GPA) - - Johannesburg

DevOps:

Apply critical thinking, design thinking and problem-solving skills in an agile team environment to solve complex technical problems (Front End, Back End and Integration) with high quality solutions leveraging C# (.NET), Sql Server, Javascript/Typescript, ReactJs, Jenkins, Kubernetes, RabbitMq, Git
Contribute to and in some cases lead all phases of the development lifecycle including, eg. design process
Determine operational feasibility of solutions by evaluating analysis, problem definition, business requirements, solution development and proposed solutions
Develop high quality software / application design and architecture in a test driven and domain driven / cross domain environment
Quickly produce well organised, optimised and documented source code to deliver technical solutions
Ensure designs and solutions support the technical organisation principles of self-service, repeatability, testability, scalability and resilience
Apply general design patterns and paradigms to deliver technical solutions
Create and maintain sophisticated DevSecOps CI/CD Pipelines (authoring and supporting CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins for deployment to multi-site environments supporting and managing your applications all the way to production)
Use and configure modern observability techniques to provide a deeper understanding of the application using AppDynamics, Instana and Splunk
Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting, eg. Docker, Ansible, Kubernetes
Debug existing source code and polish feature sets
Work with guilds and other technical SMEs to improve and evolve technical products and services
Apply unit testing frameworks and perform integration, validation and verification testing using Moq and MsTest
Managing branching and merging in support of project delivery. Setup quality gates to ensure conformance to team best practices
Align all application development and development process to Group Architecture, Security and Infrastructure guidelines
Work with project and programme teams (when required) to plan and manage the development lifecycle, eg. releases, risk management, testing, integration, etc.
Conduct reviews, performance monitoring and ongoing optimisation and maintenance on applications
Stay ahead of the curve on emerging technologies and development practices, eg. scripting languages, containerisation etc.

People

Coach and mentor other engineers
Conduct peer reviews, testing, problem-solving within and across the broader team
Provide technical subject matter expertise and support in the attraction and recruitment of Product Engineers for the organisation
Support the people change teams in the design of adoption processes (Customer, Employee and 3rd Party Adoption)

Risk & Governance

Identify technical risks and mitigate these (pre, during and post deployment)
Update / design all application documentation aligned to the organisation technical standards and risk / governance frameworks
Participate in incident management and DR activity applying critical thinking, problem-solving and technical expertise to get to the bottom of major incidents
Deliver on time and on budget (always)

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