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.

To support and contribute to a small number of products or work streams relating to the design and implementation of Cloud solutions, operating across a number of Service Teams within SBSA, and proactively engaging with internal stakeholders in the delivery of Cloud solutions.

• Manage the Azure Virtual Machines, MLP’s Virtual Network in Azure and VNET.
• Run upgrades, installations and configurations in Azure
• Manage and monitor IaaS deployments using Log Analytics and Log Search and drilling down to the data that is in IaaS App
• Perform configuration management and DR testing and make sure the App meets the bank’s DR standards; Business Continuity and High Availability.
• Manage Microsoft Azure IaaS monitoring and management,
• Manage and monitor IaaS deployments using Log Analytics and Log Search to drill down” into the most important data in your IaaS systems.
• Configuration of Microsoft Azure Networking
• Manage configuring and connectivity between on-premises environments and Azure,
• Monitor network performance to comply with service-level agreements
• Automate deployments and scaling of Azure IaaS Solution scripts
• Drive automation of technology options within Azure
• Build a well-managed enterprise environment in Azure
• Manage IaaS costing model, Microsoft discounts and recoveries
• Creating and managing CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Azure DevOps (VSTS) to deploy both infrastructure and applications
• Usage and management of the tools to manage the infrastructure -  Azure Virtual Machines, Virtual Networks, ExpressRoute, Azure Active Directory, AD Connect, Operations Management Suite/Log Analytics, Azure Monitor, Azure Site Recovery, Azure Backup, Azure App Services, Azure Storage, Azure Import/Export, Azure SQL Server, MySQL, Azure Automation

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

Experience Required
Software Engineering
Technology
1-2 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.

Behavioral Competencies:

• Articulating Information
• Challenging Ideas
• Developing Expertise
• Examining Information
• Exploring Possibilities
• Generating Ideas
• Interpreting Data
• Producing Output
• Providing Insights
• Pursuing Goals
• Resolving Conflict
• Team Working

Technical Competencies:

• Analysing and Interpreting Information
• Data Integrity
• Internal & External IT Environment
• IT Applications
• IT Business Analysis/ Feature Analysis
• IT Knowledge
• Systems Design