Specialist Product Engineer

Minimum Requirements:

• Matric (Grade 12)
• Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology

Responsibilities:

• Apply critical thinking, design thinking and problem solving skills in an agile team environment to solve technical problems (Front End, Back End OR Middleware) with high quality solutions
• Contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle including
• Evaluate analysis, problem definition, business requirements, solution development and provide recommendations to enable the operational feasibility of solutions
• Quickly produce well-organised, optimized, and documented source code to deliver technical solutions 
• Ensure designs and solutions support the technical organisation principles of self-service, repeatability, testability, scalability and resilience
• Apply general design patterns and paradigms to deliver technical solutions
• Support the development of CI / CD Pipelines (authoring & supporting CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins / similar tools and deploying to multi-site Kubernetes environments supporting and managing your applications all the way to production)
• Use and configure modern observability techniques leveraging e.g. aggregated logging via ELK stack, metrics via
• Prometheus / Grafana / NewRElic and tracing using Zipkin/Jaeger
• Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting e.g. Jenkins,
• Docker, Ansible, Kubernetes
• Debug existing source code and polish feature sets
• Work with integrated teams and other developers to improve and evolve technical products and services
• Align all application development and development process to Group
• Architecture and Infrastructure guidelines
• Provide input into project and program teams (when required) to plan and manage the development lifecycle e.g. releases, risk management, testing, integration etc
• Conduct reviews, performance monitoring and ongoing optimization and maintenance on applications
• Stay ahead of the curve on emerging technologies and development practices and continuously evolve existing knowledge and skill in preparation for cross domain and other experiences e.g. Secure Side, Testing, Infrastructure solutions etc.
• Conduct peer reviews, testing, problem solving within and across the broader team
• Support the people change teams in the development of user material (Customer, Employee and 3rd Party Adoption)
  Risk and Governance
• Identify technical risks and mitigate these (pre, during and post release)
• Update / Design all application documentation aligned to the organization technical standards and risk / governance frameworks 
• Participate in incident management and DR activity applying critical thinking, problem solving and technical expertise to get to the bottom of major incidents