Linux Engineer at Nedbank

The engineer will be responsible for the oversight of our client's Linux infrastructure. The person will monitor, maintain and update development, quality assurance and production systems. The engineer will also assist in designing new infrastructure and will provide regular reports on the systems' performance. 

Your role:

• Provide a superior customer experience through incident and request management
• Ensure effective communication with internal and external customers
• Perform standby duties and work overtime
• To give input to and implement operational and business strategies, industry best practices and ensure necessary ITO governance is in place.
• To be an integral part of the disaster recovery (DR) team which designs, performs and documents disaster recovery procedures.
• To be an integral part of the High Impact Incidents resolution team.
• To service all related incidents, changes and requests and ensure that SLAs are met.
• To review and enforce security standards to prevent data being compromised.
• To provide server health and capacity management reports.
• Review and deploy security and operating system patches.

Qualifications Required

• Red Hat Certified Systems Administrator or equivalent Industry accreditation preferred (3-5 years experience)
• ITIL v3 experience / certification required
• Be able to automate solutions through scripting
• Solid understanding of networking, server hardware, storage subsystems
• Virtualization experience preferred: Oracle VM, Hyper-V, VMware
• Solid understanding of fundamental technologies such as DNS, TCP/IP, Load Balancing, operating system concepts including process and memory management
• Great communication and interpersonal skills
• Experience in being part of troubleshooting exercises of incidents with high impact.
• Participation in system wide solution design activities.
• Backup and restore technologies
• Writing technical and disaster recovery documentation

Experience Required

• Experience in managing the digital ecosystem of tools, data, diagnostics, analytics, content provisioning and  personalisation
• Interacting with other digital channels (internal and external 3rd party) to identify needs of customer and propose appropriate stimuli at relevant stage
• Tailoring digital experiences based on customer insights
• Ability to use digital marketing tools
• Experience in AEM will be advantageous
• Gaining insights from digital behaviour

• Solid practical software engineering and programming experience with Web technologies e.g. Web development frameworks, .NET framework, JEE, C#, with at least 3 years as a senior software development engineer and/or technical lead with similar roles.
• Experience developing customer facing applications.
• Solid experience with JavaScript, Angular4, Web Development (client side and serve side)
• Experience with ASP. Net Web API or ASP. Net MVC, OO, WebServices, JSON and REST, NoSQL databases, relational databases (e.g MySQL, DB2).
• Understanding of typical mainframe capabilities (COBOL-applications, MQ, etc.)
• Solid experience with application server development (JEE)
• Successful track record delivering high quality products on time while working in teams and following Agile methodologies.
• Experience with the solution engineering of Banking applications in an integrated Banking environment would be an advantage