Senior DevOps Engineer Job Vacancies – Stanbic Bank
Job Title: Senior DevOps Engineer – Flexipay
Organisation: Stanbic Bank
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
About US:
Stanbic Bank Uganda Limited is a subsidiary of Stanbic Africa Holdings Limited which is in turn owned by Standard Bank Group Limited (“the Group”), Africa’s leading banking and financial services group. The Standard Bank Group is the leading banking group focused on emerging markets. It is the largest African banking group ranked by assets and earnings. Stanbic Bank Uganda Limited is the largest bank in Uganda by assets and market capitalization. It offers a full range of banking services through two business units; Personal and Business Banking (PBB), and Corporate and Investment Banking (CIB).
Job Summary: The Senior DevOps Engineer – Flexipay is responsible for accelerating the testing, release and deployment of applications quickly and reliably ensuring quick time to market. Role calls for a team player and an experienced developer that is abreast with current trends of the digital economy but backed up by a rich background in DevOps and full stack implementations.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Be conversant with all technical as well as IT operation aspects for integrated operations.
- Take lead in reviewing, verifying and validating software code developed in FlexiPay.
- Monitoring and managing the entire software and product lifecycle for adherence while updating / creating new processes for improvement. Championing automation wherever possible.
- Employ Continuous Integration practices and tools,.
- Actively contribute to and manage system architectural designs.
- Clearly articulate design and implementation choices.
- Understanding customer requirements and project KPIs.
- Mentoring and teaching existing DevOps team members
- Defining and setting development, test, release, update and support processes for FlexiPay operations.
- Implementing various development, testing and automation tools
- Take charge of all code fixing, debugging, incident and root cause analysis management.
- Managing both internal and external stakeholders.
- Adapt at evaluating problems accurately and displaying sound judgment.
- Develop and maintain technical documentation such as run books to be used in day to day support of the business unit and as such ensuring highest levels of
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The ideal candidate for the Stanbic Bank Senior DevOps Engineer – Flexipay job placement must hold a BSc Comp Science, B.Com Informatics degree or advanced degree
- Bachelor’s degree in a field requiring strong analytical and quantitative skills such as Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Information Systems or similar
- Seven years of Application development and technical architecture, preferably with 5+ years working in digital payments industry.
- DevOps team leadership is required.
- Experience in employing various automaton tools.
- Strong understanding of SDLC.
- Knowledge of business process re-engineering principles and processes.
- Excellent understanding of C#, Java, Perl, PHP, .Net, Ruby, Python.
- Experience working on Linux based infrastructure
- Experience working on /supporting databases such as Oracle, MySQL, Mongo
- Working knowledge of cloud services, virtualisation, web services and containers.
- Excellent knowledge of USSD application development and support.
- Experience in optimising applications both stand-alone and in distributed systems to maximize performance.
- Ability to use a wide variety of open source technologies and tools
- Familiarity with Continuous integration tools such as Jenkins, Hudson etc.
- Comfort with collaboration, strong communication and reaching across functional borders.
- Sound and thorough knowledge of Standard Bank Africa’s credit risk management policies and procedures.
- Working knowledge of Operational and Market Risk.
- Broad knowledge of the applicable Acts and Bank manuals.
- Knowledge and understanding of the regulatory environment governing financial services in the countries.
How to Apply:
All candidates who wish to join the one of Africa’s biggest Banking Groups, Stanbic Bank in the aforementioned capacity are encouraged to Apply Online by visiting Link below.