Observability Engineer

Purpose Statement

To embed enterprise monitoring, end user experience and APM monitoring skills in the Observability team with a focus on Capitec’s Cloud adoption journey, powering digital and data solutions. · To build out and maintain secure, resilient, scalable, cost effective and high performing Observability solutions that will assist Capitec to become the best bank in the world.

Education (Minimum)

Education (Ideal or Preferred)

Knowledge and Experience

Experience:

• 5+ years’ experience in setting up Observability and alerting with focus on Cloud adoption.
• 2+ years’ experience in Data Science / Analysis.
• Experience working with scripting and provisioning tools like Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation or equivalent
• Experience in engineering data and/or setting up log pipelines using technologies such as ECE.
• Experience in log and big data analysis.
• Implementation of full stack monitoring.
• Previous experience in a Devops role and incorporating security controls in the build process.
• Experience in working with Cloud technologies (Cloudwatch)
• Setting standards for CI/CD in Observability
• Experience working in a fast paced Agile/Scrum environment (Atlassian Stack).
• Network monitoring experience, including VOIP systems.
• FinancialPayments solutions monitoring experience and understanding

Knowledge:

• Understands the organisation and how it operates.
• Mastery of multiple Observability toolsets
• Open telemetry & Kafka understanding, experience and skills
• Metrics, events, logs and tracing implementation for enterprises
• Payment switch understanding, with monitoring setup experience
• Setting standards for Observability
• GitHub / GitLab CI/CD pipeline design and automation
• Application & API deployment and maintenance
• Maintain vendor contracts
• Advanced Synthetic monitoring scripting
• Distributed Logging
• Own and maintain AWS account costs, automation and general management
• IT systems development processes (SDLC) application and recommendations
  • Application development
  • Programming Concepts
  • Version control
  • Testing practices
  • Monitor

Skills

Additional Information