Integration Support Specialist - BSTD at South African Reserve Bank

Detailed description

The successful candidate will be responsible for the following key performance areas:

• Support, maintain, enhance and administer the integration applications within the SARB. 
• Take responsibility for the testing and deployment of integration changes in the production and disaster recovery (DR) landscape.
• Engage with relevant stakeholders, displaying a service orientation in own work.
• Develop and maintain business continuity procedures, integration support guides and deployment guides to ensure business continuity and the maintenance of service standards.
• Perform an impact analysis based on business requirements to identify and mitigate operational and business risks.
• Proactively broaden knowledge of functional area, displaying a willingness to make improvements in own work (including methods and practices). 
• Provide regular status updates on system performance and availability to the team leader and team members.
• Evaluate own performance against given criteria and identify and address task-specific learning needs.

QUALIFICATIONS

Job requirements

• To be considered for this position, candidates must be in possession of:
• a National Diploma in Information Technology (IT) or an equivalent NQF 6 qualification; and
• at least two to five years of job-related experience within an integration administration environment. 

The following would be an added advantage:

• working experience (development and/or administration) in:
• IBM integration technologies such as API Connect, Cloud Pak 4 Integration, Datapower, IIB/ACE, MQ and Redhat Open Shift;
• Oracle integration technologies such as Oracle SOA; and
• Globalscape; and
• extensive working experience in:
• Linux and Unix; and
• Bitbucket, Confluence and JIRA.

Additional requirements include:

knowledge and skill in:

• industry, organisational and business awareness;
• quality assurance;
• continuous improvement;
• continued learning and professional development;
• IT transformation and innovation;
• infrastructure design and development;
• infrastructure support;
• systems integration;
• collaboration; 
• operations.