Site Reliability Engineer

Requisition Details & Talent Acquisition Contact

REQ: 137169

Talent Acquisition Consultant: Lerato Sithole

Cluster: Nedbank GT- CIB Markets

Location: 135 Rivonia Road, Nedbank Head Office, Sandton 

Closing Date: 4 December 2024

Job Family

Information Technology

Career Stream

Application Development

Leadership Pipeline

Manage Self: Professional

Job Purpose

• To actively own and be accountable for the overall evolution of multiple Technology or Domain assets while influencing and maintaining the health of the asset. Play a leadership role on the associated COE’s

Job Responsibilities

• For mutiple Technology or Domain assets within sphere of influence including external components that impact these assets : 
• Provide guidance to stakeholders in terms of expertise and experience
• Guide and practice code design, analysis and integration to ensure effective application of technology
• Conduct Technology Reviews of code and design quality assurance
• Drive assets health in the relevant technologies or domains
• Define and review Patterns / practices/standards in application of technology or domain
• Guide Code Branching and Merging
• Play an advisory role to Engineering leads and other stakeholders (Engineering lead and Div execs)
• Collaboration with domain architects and technical consultants ito technology and /or domain roadmaps
• Work within governance and compliance frameworks of the organisation in terms of Technology and domain application
• Provide detailed Technical roadmaps in context of the organisation architecture and interdependent technologies
• Plan and drive implementation of the agreed technical roadmaps
• Conduct research and development experimentation to test thinking regarding technology or domain applicability
• Participate in special interest groups and confrerences relating to these assets
• Ensure an understanding of technology or domain requirements, performance integrations and optimisation as positioned in organisation
• Assist with and apply troubleshooting to resolve issues
• Evaluate and influence technology decisions
• Mitigate risk by evaluating risks and impacts on  technology or domain
• Update the asset knowledge base
• Conduct internal knowlege sharing sessions
• Provide coaching, mentoring and upskilling of others within area of expertise
• Support the achievement of the  business strategy, objectives and values
• Stay abreast of developments in field of expertise 
• Ensure personal growth and enable effectiveness in performance of roles and responsibilities
• Contribute to the Nedbank Culture building initiatives (e.g. staff surveys etc.).
• Participate and support corporate responsibility initiatives for the achievement of business strategy
• Seek opportunities to improve business processes, models and systems though agile thinking.
• Conduct self development both by mentoring others and being mentored
• Participate in the talent management practise of the Engineering stream

Job Responsibilities Continue

• 1st, 2nd line technical and Functional support.
• Morning Operations (SOD) - Applications connectivity up status.
• Incident logging/management of incidents
• Desk and Vendor expectation Management and issue escalations.
• Facilitation, co-ordination and management of Disaster Recovery tests, Market Dress Rehearsals as mandated by the JSE, Nedbank, Vendors.
• Monitoring mails/notifications pertaining to system alerts, Upgrades, Disaster recovery tests, Dress Rehearsals, Production issues, user queries etc.
• Interface into GT teams for assistance (Networks, Firewalls, hardware, Information Security etc) cross functional support, planning and change implementations.
• Change management enforcement and implementation across applications.
• Vendor Management and issue escalation.
• In-scope system Audits. Internal Nedbank, EY etc.
• Project and initiative management and implementation.
• Drafting and maintenance of System documentation.
• Logging and tracking of JIRA tickets.

Essential Qualifications - NQF Level

Preferred Qualification

Degree or Diploma in IT

Preferred Certifications

Certificate in relevant Technology or Domain

Minimum Experience Level

• 6-10 Years Markets Trading environment experience

Type of Exposure

Preferred:

Experience on:

Microsoft Windows OS,
Microsoft Office Suite,
Outlook, Word, Excel, Teams 
Network troubleshooting etc.
Linux X86 familiarity, vi editor, Linux commands.
Jira and Confluence familiarity.
Linux Bash, Powershell scripting, Python etc
Visio Diagrams,
Incident management,
Change management,
Disaster Recovery,

Advantageous:

Exposure to:

LSEG (Refinitiv),
Workspace
DACS
Deal Tracker
RTDS (Real Time Data Service)
Bloomberg,
Bloomberg Terminal
Bloomberg BPIPE
Bloomberg Request Builder
Bloomberg TOMS
Ullink, 
FlexTrade,
Nutron,
Azure DevOPS
Financial Markets (Equity, Equity Derivatives, Currency Derivatives etc.
Markets Trading Systems,
JSE Market,
 

Technical/ Professional Knowledge

• Knowledge and management of Markets trading systems.

1. Trading - front office, back office, middle office applications familiarity.
2. JSE, Exchanges knowledge.

• Information Technology platforms troubleshooting. (Networks, connectivity etc)
• Programmable language scripting (Powershell, Shell, Python etc).

Behavioural Competencies

Disclaimer

Preference will be given to candidates from the underrepresented groups

Please contact the Nedbank Recruiting Team at +27 860 555 566