Kafka Event Management Platform Engineer

2 weeks ago

Cape Town, South Africa Sanlam Full time

Who are we?

Sanlam Group Technology is responsible for the provision of a digitally enabled technology service as a group COE, drive business and transformation and provide group-wide digital and data architecture. We operate the various technology platforms and shared services, ensure Cyber and Information Security resilience, and act as technology governance and risk orchestrator for technology across Sanlam.

What will you do?

This is a technical Kafka Event Management support job. This is for an Individual with Linux Certification and Integration and DEVSECOPS experience and some Coding background. Operational support is key and Standby and after-hours support will be expected. Manage and maintain Kafka Event Management platforms to ensure stability and continued high performance of said platforms and applications deployed thereon. Assist in implementing, managing and configuration of environment, platform, and application monitoring. Assisting in the constant automation and configuration of the Kafka and surrounding ipate in continual investigation into best practices, methodologies and tooling for deployment, DevOps, monitoring, release and configuration management and all other relevant disciplines. Documentation of the investigation is compulsory. Work with Linux advance implementations as well as hardware configured environments. Ensure that tooling and platform obsolesce is avoided and managed in the form of roadmaps, patches, and upgrades. Facilitate the automation of area’s this person will be involved as the workload is growing and the toolsets is also getting more – key is to automate as much what make sense and use proper rules to ensure it is a clean and secure implementation.

What will make you successful in this role?

The following would assist a successful candidate:
Application platform, maintenance, implementation, and configuration of the following (or similar):

Linux advance user with Certification started. RedHat JBoss EAP (or Wildfly) Kafka working knowledge and at least 2 years’ experience. Kubernetes and Rancher experience Understand the concept of integration of web-based services and practical use of APIs, REST and SOAP services. Understand conceptual makeup of the SDLC and, with regards to the implementation phase, the change in responsibilities based on level of agility. 

Exposure to Infrastructure/Application configuration management tooling including the following (or similar) is advisable:

Ansible Chef Puppet Foreman Rundeck  Redis (cache) Graylog Harbor

Understanding of relationships and integration between host, operating system, platform and application layers. Knowledge of integration between application touch-points such as directory services (ie LDAP), databases, load balancers and reverse-proxies are also beneficial.

Exposure to containerization concepts and technology such as the following:

Docker (Swarm) Kubernetes operations & administration

Qualifications and Experience

Qualifications

Matric Tertiary qualification in Information Technology Linux Certification  Linux advance Certification advisable

Experience

2-5 years in the field of Information Technology 2-5 years runtime operations support in some form Exposure with scripting 2 years as an advanced Linux user

Knowledge and Skills

Evaluates and recommends suitable hardware and softwareFinancial advice and supportSystem securityAdvanced analytics to address business requirementsProject Planning

Personal Attributes

Decision quality - Contributing through othersOrganisational savvy - Contributing through othersOptimises work processes - Contributing through othersPlans and aligns - Contributing through others

Build a successful career with us

We’re all about building strong, lasting relationships with our employees. We know that you have hopes for your future – your career, your personal development and of achieving great things. We pride ourselves in helping our employees to realise their worth. Through its five business clusters – Sanlam Fintech, Sanlam Life and Savings, Sanlam Investment Group, Sanlam Allianz, Santam, as well as MiWay and the Group Office – the group provides many opportunities for growth and development.

Core Competencies

Being resilient - Contributing through othersCollaborates - Contributing through othersCultivates innovation - Contributing through othersCustomer focus - Contributing through othersDrives results - Contributing through others

Turnaround time

The shortlisting process will only start once the application due date has been reached. The time taken to complete this process will depend on how far you progress and the availability of managers. 

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