Company Description

Standard Bank Group is a leading Africa-focused financial services group, and an innovative player on the global stage, that offers a variety of career-enhancing opportunities – plus the chance to work alongside some of the sector’s most talented, motivated professionals. Our clients range from individuals, to businesses of all sizes, high net worth families and large multinational corporates and institutions. We’re passionate about creating growth in Africa. Bringing true, meaningful value to our clients and the communities we serve and creating a real sense of purpose for you.

Job Description

To support the installation, maintenance and performance management of the z/OS operating system and related vendor products and support application staff. Support other infrastructure teams ie (CICS/DB2/Storage management/ADABAS). Provide guidance as required to the architecture and design teams.

Perform deployment work for projects on demand and in accordance with project schedules.With respect to Z/OS applications:. Deploy fixes/PTF’s, refreshes, and upgrades in accordance with related deployment and release schedules.Define hardware to the z/OS operating systemEnsure systems perform optimally by monitoring  performance and make recommendations to the capacity management team. Perform DR exercises as directed by the BCM regime.Resolve incidents and problems and escalate 3rd level support requirements to 3rd party support contractor(s) and coordinate support provision. Service restore shall satisfy service level agreements.Maintain run books for Z/OS operations utilising deployment- and maintenance guides directives originating from Products & Services.Interact with Products & Services/Architecture to optimise and maintain Z/OS infrastructure and operations service levels at a level that fully endorse GTI’s service level agreements with its customers.Support Operational Controls processes (Audits, Risk and DR& BCM governance, business processes improvements, performance management, and finance and business management), supply requested information and implement corrective actions as applicable.

Qualifications

Type of Qualification: First Degree
Field of Study: Information Technology

A qualification in project management (Prince II or PMIBOK or similar) or one or preferably more of the infrastructure technologies deployed across mainframe infrastructure footprints.

Experience Required
Software Engineering
Technology
3-4 years
Be familiar with systems and configuration management tools (e.g. Chef and Terraform). Experience in Continuous Integration or Continuous Delivery processes in engineering teams, integrating test automation into various points in a deployment pipeline and prior programming background in at least one or more languages: C, C++, Java, Perl, Python, Go, or scripting experience in Shell and Perl.

3-4 years
Experience gained in using production systems and technologies, for example load balancing, monitoring, distributed systems, microservices, and configuration management. Designing and executing small scale systems automation projects with strong autonomy. Be familiar with software engineering best practices such as testing, continuous integration and continuous delivery Experience in monitoring and metrics collection tools such as AppDynamics, Prometheus, Nagios and Graphite.

Additional Information

Behavioural Competencies:

Articulating InformationChallenging IdeasDeveloping ExpertiseExamining InformationExploring PossibilitiesGenerating IdeasInterpreting Data

Technical Competencies:

Analysing and Interpreting InformationData IntegrityInternal & External IT EnvironmentIT ApplicationsIT Business Analysis/ Feature AnalysisIT KnowledgeSystems Design