South Africa Job Openings
Sanlam
DevOps Engineer (Junior)
Johannesburg
FULL TIME
October 11, 2024
CAREER OPPORTUNITY
The Core Platforms Applications and User Experience in Santam Business Information and Technology Solutions department (BITS) has an opportunity for a Junior Dev Ops Engineer who will be based in Cape Town (Head Office) in our BITS (Business Information Technology Services) department.
PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES
- Technical support of Guidewire Suite and Thunderhead technology (includes usage of hardware, software, databases, and the management and support thereof - including upgrades, resolving vulnerabilities and understanding and driving software patching)
- Administration of infrastructure deployment, technical support processes, support procedures, deployments & releases, servers, nodes, databases, etc.
- Monitoring and management of hardware & software resource performance (CPU, Memory, Disk I/O, etc.) across all environments
- Installation of software (from operating systems through to applications) across non-production environments while liaising with GTI for formal or production environments
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Support patching and vulnerability management of servers across all environments
KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE
We’re all about building strong, lasting relationships with our employees. We know that you have hopes for your future – your career, your personal development and of achieving great things. We pride ourselves in helping our employees to realise their worth. Through its five business clusters – Sanlam Fintech, Sanlam Life and Savings, Sanlam Investment Group, Sanlam Allianz, Santam, as well as Mi Way and the Group Office – the group provides many opportunities for growth and development.
Turnaround time
- Relevant Tertiary IT qualification
- At minimum a 3 year diploma
- Extent (years) and nature of experience required
- Up to 5 years’ experience in a technical environment dealing with maintenance and operational support – includes software and infrastructure support
- Ability to read code and troubleshoot issues
SKILLS
- Working experience with Linux, Java, SQL Database, distributed web applications
- Experience with Docker, Atlassian Suite, Bamboo
- Up to 5 years’ IT development experience in Java as well as infrastructure support and maintenance
- Experience in application development, support and release management
- Experience in messaging middleware, web services, SOAP, REST, SOA, ESB, SMTP, FTP, secure FTP
- Research and presentation skills
- Ability to write technical instructions in the use of programs and / or program modifications
- Competent in problem solving and troubleshooting at application and networked infrastructure levels
- Communication of technical guidance and instruction to team members
- Ability to write technical instructions in the use of programs and / or program modifications
- Ability to accept accountability for actions and decisions
- System engineering processes
- Hardware and software installation and maintenance
- System security
- Progress reporting
- Security threat management through Patching of security vulnerabilities
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Must be able to work in a team focused highly pressurised and dynamic environment
COMPETENCIES
- Collaboration
- Client focus
- Drives results
- Flexibility and adaptability
- Cultivates innovation
- Stakeholder management as it relates to business and technical users at different levels in the organisation
- Investigation and analysis of information
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Planning and organisation
ABOUT THE COMPANY
Santam is the market leader in the general insurance industry in Southern Africa. We are a large, diversified, expanding and transforming company and whilst based in South Africa, we are rapidly moving into a number of emerging markets, both in Africa and Asia.
Our success is rooted in our passion for our clients and everything we do is centered on our delivery of Insurance Good and Proper. We’re about people. People drive our business so it follows that we want to recruit the best people possible whether they work for us permanently or for a short time as temporary employees.
At Santam we are committed to transformation and embracing diversity. This commitment is what drives us to achieve a diverse workplace with employment equity as a key goal to create an inclusive workforce, representative of the demographics of our society. In achieving our employment equity goals we give preference to applicants from the designated groups in alignment with the Divisions Employment Equity targets.
Qualified applicants are invited to submit their cover letter, CV, and salary requirements in MS Word format online at www.santam.co.za / careers. Should you be aware of a qualified individual, please pass this vacancy on to them.
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