Team Leader: Platform Engineering Delivery
Date: 21 Nov 2024
Location: Stellenbosch, Western Cape, ZA
Company: Capitec Bank Ltd
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Join Us in Becoming the Best Bank in the World!!
We appoint energized and motivated people for their potential and continuously look for talented, driven individuals to help us innovate and evolve. That is why we focus on finding the right people for the right jobs. We love what we do because we focus on making a positive difference for our clients and employees. Our company DNA is built around talented and committed teams dedicated to build a brand that we are proud of and earns the trust of our clients.
Who We Are
We are a bank, but we’re much more than that. We believe that banking is about enabling people to control their financial lives through banking that is simplified, accessible, affordable and delivered through personal experience. By helping our clients manage their financial lives better, we enable them to live better.
Why Choose Us
At Capitec, we offer our best by living up to our CEO values in every situation – we always put the Client first, act with Energy and take Ownership. And to support people in being their best, our Employee Value Proposition offers every value to all team members through cohesive teams, growth opportunities as well as employee benefits and savings. We make it a priority to ensure that each member of the Capitec team feels welcome, valued, focused, and can grow.
About the role:
As the Team Leader: Platform Engineering Delivery, you will be responsible for delivering resilient, scalable, secure, and high-performing platform infrastructure solutions for Capitec Bank. You will provide technical leadership and best practices to a team of Platform Engineers, design and implement high-quality cloud infrastructure solutions, and establish a roadmap for the Internal Developer Platform. The team has built the internal developer platform for Capitec, and most of the product teams, if not all, are using this development platform to provision infrastructure. This includes teams across the entire organization, such as insurance, business banking, and retail.
Our ideal candidate has:
- A relevant tertiary qualification in Information Technology - IT Engineering or Information Technology
- At least 5 years in infrastructure, software development, DevOps, including design and implementation of highly available enterprise-scale developer platforms.
- AWS Experience with hands-on troubleshooting experience on AWS platform, and working in a DevOps environment as well as working with Docker containers, with hands-on troubleshooting experience in Docker or Kubernetes
- Microservices and CI/CD: Experience developing and supporting infrastructure for microservices-based architectures and working with CI/CD tools and scripting/provisioning tools like Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, or equivalent.
- Monitoring and Logging: Experience setting up monitoring and logging tools for infrastructure and microservices.
- Preferred: Experience in financial services or banking, infrastructure security, and working in a fast-paced Agile/Scrum environment.
Skills:
- Analytical Skills
- Attention to Detail
- Communications Skills
- Computer Literacy (MS Word, MS Excel, MS Outlook)
- Problem solving skills
If you are interested in being part of this dynamic team, on a mission to build the best bank in the world through unlocking the potential of its people, please apply. We would love to hear from you!
Conditions of Employment
- Clear criminal and credit record
Capitec is committed to diversity, applications to this position will strictly be considered in support of our employment equity goals.