Capitec Bank
Monitoring Engineer
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Job Description
- Req#: 35212
- To embed enterprise monitoring, end user experience and APM monitoring skills in the Monitoring team with a focus on Capitec’s Cloud adoption journey, powering digital and data solutions.
- To build out and maintain secure, resilient, scalable, cost effective and high performing Monitoring solutions that will assist Capitec to become the best bank in the world.
- 3+ years’ experience in design and implementation of Infrastructure and Application Monitoring.
- 2+ years in Application Performance monitoring (APM monitoring) with focus on End user experience.
- 1+ years’ experience in working with Infrastructure DevOps teams.
- Experience in Monitoring systems on Cloud Platforms.
- Experience in supporting and enhancing build and release processes through automation using a combination of processes and existing tools.
- Experience working in a DevOps environment.
- Experience in document management systems, such as Confluence.
- Experience working with CI/CD tools.
- Experience with authentication and Authorization technologies and protocols (LDAP, Kerberos, AD, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML).
- Experience in working with proxy setups and configurations for systems.
- 5+ years’ experience in setting up Monitoring and alerting with focus on Cloud adoption.
- 2+ years’ experience in Data Science / Analysis.
- Experience working with scripting and provisioning tools like Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation or equivalent
- Experience in engineering data and/or setting up log pipelines using technologies such as ECE.
- Experience in log and big data analysis.
- Implementation of full stack monitoring.
- Experience with Prometheus/Grafana, ELK, New Relic or similar products both on premise and Cloud Platforms.
- Previous experience in a Devops role and incorporating security controls in the build process.
- Experience in working with Cloud technologies (Cloudwatch).
- Experience working in a fast paced Agile/Scrum environment (Atlassian Stack).
- Open telemetry understanding, experience and skills.
- Network monitoring experience, including VOIP systems.
- Payment switch understanding, with monitoring setup experience (Postilion, Visa, Mastercard)
- A relevant tertiary qualification in Information Technology or Arts
- Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology or Engineering - Other
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Who we are
We're a bank, but we're more than that too. We believe that banking is about people and that there's a simpler way to bank, and that by helping our clients manage their financial lives better, we enable them to live better.
Why Choose Us
At Capitec, we offer our best by being a CEO in every situation - we always put the Client first, act with Energy and take Ownership. We make it priority to ensure that each Capitec person feels known, valued, focused and has the opportunity to grow. Picture yourself in the heart of a dynamic environment, where you can harness the power of your experience to make a real impact. The successful candidate will join the Observability team which forms part of the Platform team focused on creating a platform for internal consumption within Capitec. The Observability team provides Monitoring and Observability solutions and automations to the bank.
Join Us in Becoming the Best Bank in the World
We appoint people for their potential and continuously look for talented, driven individuals to help us innovate and evolve the banking industry. That's why we focus on finding the right people for the right jobs. We love what we do - it takes a great team, commitment and dedication to build a brand that we are proud of and that our clients trust. If you are looking for a rewarding role, with the opportunity of getting involved in providing cost effective, high quality metric, events, logs and tracing abilities to Capitec's internal clients you should apply today!
Purpose Statement
Experience
Minimum:
Ideal:
Qualifications (Minimum)
Qualifications (Ideal or Preferred)
Knowledge
Minimum:
- Ability to transfer skills and knowledge regarding new systems to support staff
- Understanding of Monitoring capabilities and toolsets (ECE / New Relic / PagerDuty / Solarwinds)
- Basic Understanding of Information Technology Frameworks. (ITIL)
- Basic understanding of at least one high-level programming language (.net / Java)
- Advanced scripting skills in at least one interpreted language (Java scripting / Bash / PowerShell).
- Design, deployment and maintenance of highly available, enterprise-scale Monitoring solutions.
- Understanding of Monitoring technologies best practices.
Ideal / Optional:
- Understanding of modern software engineering patterns, including those used in highly scalable, distributed, and resilient systems.
- Strong design and hands on troubleshooting background on Monitoring and analytics toolsets (ECE or New Relic will be advantageous).
- Integration of monitoring toolsets into Event Management toolsets and automation of the relevant processes.
- Advanced experience in providing event De-duplication, correlation and seasonality and related events analysis.
- Ability to deliver long-term, repeatable monitoring solutions that incorporate directly into an overall CI/CD process.
- Advance knowledge of infrastructure concepts, technologies and patterns. (SDLC, IaC)
Skills
- Communications Skills
- Computer Literacy (MS Word, MS Excel, MS Outlook)
- Analytical Skills
- Problem solving skills
- Presentation Skills
- Researching skills
- Attention to Detail
- Project Management Skills (Methodolgy Specific)
Conditions of Employment
- Clear criminal and credit record
- A valid driver's license and own vehicle is required
Capitec is committed to diversity, applications to this position will strictly be considered in support of our employment equity goals.