Technical Specialist at FNB South Africa

• To plan, design and build an Information Technology (IT) infrastructure architecture usually at an enterprise level to meet business requirements

Are you someone who can do the following:

System Administration (Red Hat Linux):

• Manage and maintain Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) servers.
• Perform patching, upgrades, performance tuning, and troubleshooting.
• Implement security hardening and compliance (SELinux, firewalld, auditing).

Application Support:

• Provide Level 2/3 support for business-critical applications running on RHEL.
• Monitor application logs, resource usage, and dependencies.
• Work with developers to troubleshoot performance, integration, and deployment issues.

Infrastructure Engineering:

• Design and maintain infrastructure solutions (on-prem or cloud-hosted).
• Capacity planning and scaling.
• Storage, networking, and backup integration into application environments.

DevOps & Automation

Ansible:

• Write playbooks/roles for configuration management and automation.
• Standardize server builds and patching automation.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for repeatable deployments.

CI/CD Pipelines:

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI, Tekton).
• Automate build, test, and deployment processes.
• Integrate static code analysis, unit testing, and artifact management.

Kubernetes / Containerization:

• Deploy, manage, and troubleshoot applications in Kubernetes/Openshift.
• Build and manage container images (Docker, Podman).
• Ensure proper monitoring, logging, scaling, and failover strategies.

Operational Support

• Incident, Problem, and Change management (ITIL-aligned).
• Root cause analysis and long-term remediation.
• On-call participation for critical infrastructure/application issues.
• Monitoring (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK, Splunk).

Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement

• Work closely with Developers to support application deployment and performance.
• Partner with QA/Testing teams to align environments with testing needs.
• Collaborate with Infrastructure Architects on solution design.
• Guide junior engineers and act as a technical SME (Subject Matter Expert).

Key Skills

• OS/Infra: RHEL, systemd, networking (TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing).
• Scripting: Bash, Python (for automation and integration).
• DevOps Tools: Ansible, Git, Jenkins, GitLab, ArgoCD/Tekton.
• K8s/Openshift: Deployment, Helm, Operators, namespaces, RBAC, secrets/configmaps.
• Monitoring/Logging: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK, Splunk.
• Security & Compliance: Patching, vulnerability management, IAM.

Soft Skills

• Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills.
• Communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Documentation and knowledge sharing.
• Adaptability across infrastructure and application layers

Dare to imagine the change with us if you are:

• An adaptable problem solver who does not fear change but thrives from it.
• A disruptor in your field of IT expertise
• An initiative taker who identifies opportunity and improves
• Known for your delivery track record.
• Wanting to be in a career that makes meaningful contribution to your and other people's lives.

You’ll benefit from our changeable benefits like:

• Opportunities to network and collaborate.
• Inspiring work environment
• Work that is challenging
• Space to make a difference.
• Opportunities to innovate.
• Conditions that are flexible
• Focus on health and wellbeing (onsite wellness center, gym and crèche at our main campus to innovative employee wellbeing and financial fitness programmes)
• Resources to help you with your professional development.
• Generous leave policy
• Preferential employee banking rates
• When it comes to learning and development, we encourage our changeable to expand their knowledge, on their own, with others, in person or online.
• As for our workspace, it is immersive, collaborative, and energetic because at FNB, innovation is our lifeblood and change in our DNA.

End Date: November 8, 2025