Cloud Engineers at Absa

Job Description

Cloud Engineers – Specialized Engineering

Recognized Internationally, this Leading Financial Institution is scouting for Talented Cloud Engineers to join their amazing space. 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!

Job Purpose
Our Cloud Engineers are specialists who use their cloud skill to build the platform that underpins our next generation of products and digital experiences.  Constant innovation and learning are a key part of the role (and what brought us to the cutting-edge). This includes design, development, planning, management, maintenance, and support of the core cloud infrastructure as well as working with other engineering teams in the firm. 
Experience and qualifications

• Minimum qualification - Relevant degree or industry certification in the relevant Cloud Platform – AWS and or Azure.

• Preferred Qualification - Bachelor of Science degree in computer science or relevant IT experience.

• At least 2 – 5 years’ experience with cloud services AWS. (EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda, etc.)

• Automation, scripting, continuous integration and continuous delivery, you’ll be using Python a lot. (Ansible, Jenkins, Chef, Puppet)

• Familiarity with application development in Java, .Net, Python, Ruby or Go is a plus.

• Cloud infrastructure management tools: Terraform, CloudFormation.

• Proven problem solving, technical troubleshooting and performance-tuning.

• A good understanding of Linux, Networking, Docker and Kubernetes.

• Understanding of cloud security, cyber security fundamentals and security automation.

• A good understanding APIs, orchestration, automation, DevOps, and databases.

• Cloud management software such as AWS, Azure, or VMware.

• Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a- Service (PaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS).

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