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Specialist Platform Engineer

Absa Group LimitedJohannesburg, ZA

11 days ago

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Job title : Specialist Platform Engineer

Job Location : Gauteng, Johannesburg

Deadline : October 31, 2025

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Apply platform engineering expertise, critical thinking, design thinking and problem solving skills in an agile team environment to produce well-organised, optimised and documented source code that successfully delivers platform features & components of the service & solves complex technical problems with high quality solutions.

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Platform Engineering, Deployment & Optimisation

Leverage platform engineering expertise & a working knowledge of specific platforms and their constituent parts to positively contribute to platform feature and service designs

Take accountability for deeply understanding & building expertise on the platform, the platform contribution to the broader platform strategy & business and customer requirements & all available technologies

Develop business & customer aligned, lasting & innovative platform feature sets

Positively contribute to, define & implement the development / engineering lifecycle (end to end) and lead lifecycle improvements over successive releases.

Produce simple, extensible, and maintainable features with very few defects. Continually works to find and fix defects.

Leverage platform (service design & code) & engineering technical expertise to proactively identify risks and prevent defects

Identify patterns that reveal errors and unanticipated problems, and influence telemetry analytics design decisions

Identify & Apply metrics to drive the quality and stability of code

Ensure consistent, usable, forward-looking, maintainable test infrastructure

Apply object orientated design in development & draw from a large base of design patterns

Uphold our technical principles of : self-service, scalability, re-usability, resilience & stability in all development practices and deliver feature sets that sustainably deliver on these principles

Apply knowledge and expertise in User / Customer experience to deliver a stable user experience in all design & development that is simple, elegant, and useful.

Proactively identify development practices that work well & leverage & improve these for future solution design and deployment

Document feature set and constituent design information to produce solution design blueprints and validation collateral

Based on engineering & platform expertise and a sound knowledge of the business & customer requirements consistently provide key ideas for the enhancement & optimization of the platform

Develop & document complete designs and implement testing processes that identify and eradicate platform or service-wide problems / improve on platform performance

Demonstrate a strong commitment to the quality & ongoing quality assurance of the product / service’s in use, and take appropriate action to resolve issues throughout the lifecycle of the product or service

Ensure alignment to platform and service release plans for effective deployment of solution designs

Drive & implement design review processes & practices with the team & participate & positively contribute to design reviews for the feature area led by others

Apply expertise in engineering & available technologies to enable effective review processes

Cascade review lessons learnt for the benefit of the broader team

Enable problem resolution across technical teams, apply and or facilitate root cause analysis, deeply understand the root causes of issues and find ways to resolve them (sustainably)

Continuously review & find ways to optimize team processes & improve engineering quality, productivity, and team responsiveness to feedback and changing priorities

Optimize, refactors and reuse components to improve performance and maintainability – ensuring maximum efficiency, effectiveness, and return on investment

Take accountability for maintaining platform standards and best practices, and drive adoption across multiple service teams

Demonstrate knowledge of, identify & find required data for the ongoing monitoring & improvement of the platform feature area

Proactively monitor the performance of the platform features & solutions

Translate monitoring data into clearly articulated descriptions of opportunities & defects, their impact to the customer scenario and to the product or service as a whole, and the relevance to product and service targets (within scope of the job).

Cascade and communicate these insights across the team to influence platform decision making

Leverage production performance monitoring and customer data to make feature area technical design and implementation decisions.

Synthesize data from multiple sources and present & define concise, impactful conclusions that influence feature teams to solve defects and meet quality targets

Accountability : Financial & Cost Optimization, Risk & Governance

Understand the platform cost model & the optimal cost : serve of the platform, use this understanding to drive the platform efficiency & effectiveness objectives

Participate in incident management & DR activity – applying critical thinking, problem solving & technical expertise to get to the bottom of major incidents

Apply Group risk (e.g. Architecture, development, change & release etc.), governance, compliance & regulatory standards and frameworks

Proactively identify technical risks and mitigate these (pre, during & post release)

Update / Design all feature documentation aligned to the organization technical standards and risk / governance frameworks

Accountability : People

Proactively & effectively (time & quality) collaborate & drive collaboration on features across feature team (e.g. managing dependencies & interdependencies, conflict resolution, information & best practice sharing, problem resolution outside of own area etc.)

Apply collaboration skills in development practices & issue resolution regardless of team boundaries & lead communication with relevant stakeholders through to conclusion

Contribute to a high performance team environment & culture as a high performing member of a self-directed team aligned to agile working

Leverage coaching techniques in all team related activity to drive a higher quality service, design and deployment of technical solutions.

Proactively seek & provide feedback across a range of stakeholders for the benefit of the team & leverage feedback to consistently improve platform solution delivery

Coach & mentor other engineers & support engineering teams on technical solutions and problem resolution & proactively seek coaching & mentoring from others

Participate in peer reviews, testing, problem solving within and across the broader team

Cascade platform performance feedback and ensure capability development across teams to enable efficient & effective platform service delivery

Drive the design of content, tools & materials for strategy alignment, education & adoption processes to be applied across stakeholder groups

Minimum requirements

B-Tech and or equivalent diploma in electrical / mechanical engineering.

CDCP (Certification data centre professional) key requirement

3 / 5-years data centre experience

Key understanding of Data Centre infrastructure : HVAC , Power systems ( UPS , Generator , electrical distribution) , Mechanical systems cooling , heating and fire suppression systems.

Familiar with safety , regulatory and compliance standards (e.g., OHS , HSE and ISO standards and safety regulations) , must understand the legal / regulatory frameworks.

Education

Bachelor's Degree : Information Technology

End Date : September 23, 2025

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