Specialist Product Engineer (Cloud Infrastructure) at Absa Group Limited (Absa)

Job Summary

• 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.

Job Description

• CIB Payments Technology - Core Banking Multi-Currency is looking for a passionate and motivated Specialist Product Engineer.
• We are a legacy application evolving to more modern applications, our area provides forex payments capabilities through various systems and processes.
• As a team we continuously strive to streamline our processes and ways of working, creating room for innovation, a culture of learning, trust and empowerment, recognition, work-life harmony and diversity & inclusion.

Key critical technical requirements:

• Min 3 - 5 years hands on software development experience
• Relevant B-Degree in Computer Science preferred but not essential if minimum requirements of experience & practical application is evident
• Experience working in an agile environment
• Excellent communication, analytical skills and decision making ability in collaborative environments
• Solid understanding of Object Oriented Design and ability to properly apply general design patterns and
• paradigms
• Cloud Infrastructure (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure)

Kubernetes and Containerization (Docker):

• Docker experience for containerization and deployment is crucial as well.

Microservices Architecture:

• Microservices architecture, candidates should have experience designing, building, and deploying microservices. Understanding inter-service communication, service discovery, and deployment pipelines is important. Knowledge of tools for monitoring and maintaining microservices like Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK stack is a plus.

Programming Languages:

• Proficiency in languages commonly used in cloud-native environments, such as Python, Java, or Scala, is essential.

API Development and Integration:

• skilled in creating and consuming RESTful and potentially GraphQL APIs.
• Experience in secure API design, API gateways, and working with authentication methods like OAuth2 is important.
• Event-Driven Architecture:
• Familiarity with event-driven systems and message brokers (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ) for handling asynchronous tasks and real-time data processing.
• SQL and Distributed Databases:
• Experience with databases like, MongoDB, SQL to work with large, distributed datasets. Understanding of database scaling, replication, and handling transactions in distributed environments.
• DevOps and CI/CD: Since cloud-native development relies heavily on continuous integration and delivery, developers should have hands-on experience with DevOps practices. Familiarity with CI/CD tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI, or CircleCI to automate the build and deployment pipelines.
• Security and Compliance:
• Security is paramount. Candidates should have knowledge of cloud security best practices, data encryption, identity and access management (IAM), and compliance standards like PCI-DSS and GDPR.

Education

• Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology