Hybrid File Transfer Platform Engineer

at Absa Group

• Job title: File Transfer Platform Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Junior, Mid level
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: AWS, Azure, Cloud, Unix
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Randburg, South Africa

About the role

• Engineering and supporting systems for Absa while collaborating in an agile team. Focus on platform features and components to solve technical problems and deliver optimised code.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Ensure that all systems and infrastructure is monitored and maintained.
• Perform the installation configuration and maintenance of the operating systems, operational software, and system management tools.
• Ensure systems are maintained and are functioning with high quality.
• Ensure that there is a high level of security and regular back up being carried out.
• Assess the systems, identify problem areas, and fix them.
• Collaborate with developers and fellow engineers to ensure that systems are functioning at an efficient capacity.
• Write and maintain scripts to provide readymade solutions and reduce human intervention at any point of time for a task.
• Design operational and information support systems in collaboration with fellow engineers and developers.
• Be available to provide 2nd and 3rd level support.
• Negotiate and coordinate with vendors and IT support personnel to resolve problems.
• Provide technical services and support for network level, internal systems, and virtualization technologies.
• Administer and manage Active Directory to ensure appropriate secure access to relevant resources for all staff.
• Maintain operational, configuration, or other procedures for the development, enhancement evaluation, testing and implementation of new software and software releases in consultation with vendors where necessary.
• Communicate technical information in non-technical language to users with varying expertise and seniority.

Requirements

• Prior 2 years’ experience as a systems engineer.
• Prior work experience with installation and configurations of operating systems and system management tools.
• Excellent knowledge of security software, automation software, scripting, and virtualization.
• Strong time management, organization, and multitasking skills.
• Solid experience with Cloud (AWS), administration and performance tuning of application stacks.
• Support (installation and configuration) for IBM Sterling products (Connect Direct / Secure Proxy / authentication services as part of a managed file transfer solution.
• Progress MOVEit Automation and Transfer with Gateway services onboarding/ support and maintenance configurations on Unix/windows/OS400 and ZOS file transfer Protocols which include Connect: Direct, SFTP/AWS S3/UNC share/Azure Blob and SSH key authentication.
• AWS Cloud skill products knowledge and experience in supporting business flows. (GitHub /GOCD / Required to ensuring that the managed file transfer solution complies with recommended security controls, Patch management from both operating systems and application level to Ensuring all audit requirements are met and addressed if there were finding against the team.

Benefits

• Professional development
• Health insurance programs