Specialist Product Engineer

SUMMARY:
Our Client, a leader in the Banking Sector is looking for a Specialist Product Engineer for a 6 Month Contract based in Cape Town. R450 p/h

POSITION INFO:

Job Description

Apply critical thinking & problem-solving skills to contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle & quickly produce well-organised, optimized, and documented source code to deliver high-performing, scalable, enterprise-grade applications

Key Accountabilities

The successful candidate will design and develop frameworks and applications that will enable integration of individual pieces i n CI /CD pipeline, improve reliability of core systems and eliminate manual interactions. The overall idea is to bring value to the customers through simplification of development lifecycle for all colleagues.
• Ensuring proper architectural principles are followed and good quality of code is being produced.
• Manage the business relationship by liaising directly with stakeholders and product owners throughout an agile development lifecycle.
• Following DevOps principles and promote them to other teams.
• Have a “we build it, we run it” mind set –you are responsible end to end for stability and success of your applications.
• Play a lead role in identifying new ways of working, new technology that can be used, and better ways of using existing technology.
• Strong focus on creating products where teams are self-enabled, decentralized management thereof and loosely coupled high available architecture.

Desired Skills

• University Degree or higher certificate in information technology
• Good knowledge of at least one scripting language (PowerShell, Bash, Python)
• Experience with infrastructure as code (preferably Terraform or Ansible)
• Knowledge of Web Services / Micro Services (REST)

•Full understanding of CI/CD

• Security-first mindset
• Fundamental understanding of TCP/IP. DNS, SSL and load balancing
• At least basic Docker exposure
• Full stack application development experience is a strong advantage.
• Experience in the following technologies is beneficial: Service Fabric, Redis, Openshift, ASP.NET, .Net Core, Rabbit MQ, AWS, Elastic stack, Octopus Deploy, Team City, TFS, Git, Jira, Web API
• Excellent communication skills

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