Application Administrator

2 weeks ago


Sandton, South Africa Discovery Ltd. Full time

Business Unit:
Discovery Life
Function:Information Technology
Date:11-Apr-2023
Application Administrator (Senior) - Life systems Architecture

About Discovery Life

  • Discovery Life is an ever growing fastpaced and dynamic environment that provides innovative risk assurance to individual clients. This environment thrives on customer engagement and customer experience as well as mutually beneficial relationships with our brokers and other stakeholders. It is important for our employees to provide a world class service to our internal and external clients, thereby ensuring long and sustainable relationships.
    Key Purpose
    Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to
  • Day to day maintenance of the Middleware environments
  • Responsible for ensuring availability and performance
  • To proactively monitor the systems to ensure minimum downtime
  • Responsible for the improvement and maintenance of the solutions, including upgrades and security patches.
  • Responsible for implementation and release of middleware solutions onpremise and in AWS / OCI / Azure.
  • Providing technical middleware and performance advice to development teams
  • Middleware capacity management
  • General middleware troubleshooting
  • Implementation and enforcement of Discovery standards and procedures
  • Life Infrastructure standby and shift duties

Education and Experience

Essential:

  • Matric
  • BSc Comp Sc/ BSc Info Systems or equivalent tertiary qualification
  • The applicant MUST have 5 years experience managing complex solution stacks without direct supervision.
  • Certification in a middleware j2ee offering. (JBOSS, Weblogic, Websphere)

Advantageous:

  • Dynatrace APM Experience
  • AWS SysOps, DevOps or Associate Architect Certification
  • ITIL

Technical Skills and Knowledge

Essential:

  • Experience in managing
  • Experience in configuration and release automation
  • Experience in managing
complex middleware solutions on native servers and containerized platforms such as Openshift, EKS, Fargate, VMWare Tanzu.

  • Experience in monitoring and tuning middleware solutions
  • Experience configuring and using automation tooling for the provisioning and management of the entire development and runtime environment.
- (Jenkins, Chef/Puppet/Salt etc, ansible/terraform/cloud formation).

Advantageous:

  • Advanced troubleshooting skills
  • AWS Cloud deployments using S3, EC2, ALB, CloudWatch, EKS, Fargate.

Competencies:

  • Ability to work both independently and participate as a member of a crossfunctional team.
  • Ability to prioritize and work on multiple tasks simultaneously.
  • Strong analytical and problemsolving skills.
  • Attention to detail.
  • Solution oriented
  • Delivery focused.
  • Ability to deal with pressure.
  • EMPLOYMENT EQUITY
The Company's approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.

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