Application Administrator - Sandton, South Africa - Discovery Ltd.

Discovery Ltd.

Verified Company

Sandton, South Africa

1 week ago

Posted by:

Thabo Mthembu

beBee Recruiter

Description

Business Unit:
Discovery Life
Function:Information Technology
Date:11-Apr-2023
Application Administrator (Senior) - Life systems Architecture

About Discovery Life

Discovery Life is an ever growing fastpaced and dynamic environment that provides innovative risk assurance to individual clients. This environment thrives on customer engagement and customer experience as well as mutually beneficial relationships with our brokers and other stakeholders. It is important for our employees to provide a world class service to our internal and external clients, thereby ensuring long and sustainable relationships.
Key Purpose
Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to
Day to day maintenance of the Middleware environments
Responsible for ensuring availability and performance
To proactively monitor the systems to ensure minimum downtime
Responsible for the improvement and maintenance of the solutions, including upgrades and security patches.
Responsible for implementation and release of middleware solutions onpremise and in AWS / OCI / Azure.
Providing technical middleware and performance advice to development teams
Middleware capacity management
General middleware troubleshooting
Implementation and enforcement of Discovery standards and procedures
Life Infrastructure standby and shift duties

Education and Experience

Essential:

Matric
BSc Comp Sc/ BSc Info Systems or equivalent tertiary qualification
The applicant MUST have 5 years experience managing complex solution stacks without direct supervision.
Certification in a middleware j2ee offering. (JBOSS, Weblogic, Websphere)

Advantageous:

Dynatrace APM Experience
AWS SysOps, DevOps or Associate Architect Certification
ITIL

Technical Skills and Knowledge

Essential:

Experience in managing
Experience in configuration and release automation
Experience in managing

complex middleware solutions on native servers and containerized platforms such as Openshift, EKS, Fargate, VMWare Tanzu.

Experience in monitoring and tuning middleware solutions
Experience configuring and using automation tooling for the provisioning and management of the entire development and runtime environment.

- (Jenkins, Chef/Puppet/Salt etc, ansible/terraform/cloud formation).

Advantageous:

Advanced troubleshooting skills
AWS Cloud deployments using S3, EC2, ALB, CloudWatch, EKS, Fargate.

Competencies:

Ability to work both independently and participate as a member of a crossfunctional team.
Ability to prioritize and work on multiple tasks simultaneously.
Strong analytical and problemsolving skills.
Attention to detail.
Solution oriented
Delivery focused.
Ability to deal with pressure.
EMPLOYMENT EQUITY

The Company's approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.