Job Description

Reliability Engineer - Cloud & Backend Systems (Expert) (Contract) - Gauteng/Hybrid - ISB501872
Our client is seeking a Reliability Engineer (Expert) to enhance IT service reliability and pave the path for cutting-edge IT solutions. This role involves the development and operation of comprehensive IT solutions with a focus on innovation.
Key Highlights:
? Expert-level role
? Cloud-native focus
? Hybrid flexibility
Position Details:
Contract Duration: 01032026 to 31122028
Commencement Date: 01032026
Location: Midrand/Menlyn/Rosslyn/Home Office rotation
Role Group: DevOps
Experience Required: 5 8 years
Product / Team Context:
The team focuses on Retail Vehicle Management Services (RVMS) which revolves around the "vehicle" data entity within the retail/sales business context. This includes Vehicle Search Service (VSS), Vehicle Booking Services (VBS), and Stock Search Frontend (SEAF/TASER). Our vision is to offer customers a seamless driving experience with smart services and excellent digital products.
Qualifications & Experience:

• Qualification/Certification in backend development technologies.
• Experience of 5 8 years specific to the role.

Essential Skills & Technologies:

• JavaScript
• Node.JS
• API Development, Calling and creating REST services, RESTful APIs
• JavaScript Logging packages
• JMS
• Knowledge of design patterns, DAO pattern
• Object oriented design
• SQL with Postgres or Cockroach DB
• Postman / SoapUI
• HTTP Authentication, and Encryption with SSL
• HTTP Session management and persistence
• Git with Bitbucket, Code versioning (Git)
• CI/CD
• AWS Code Pipelines
• Debugging remote services
• Microservice Architecture

Advantageous Skills:

• AWS cloud services and Serverless development technologies (highly advantageous)
• Docker (highly advantageous)
• Kubernetes (advantageous)
• JSON and XML with Schema (advantageous)
• Content Management Platforms (Headless CMS)
• Frontend development technologies such as HTML5, JavaScript, CSS, Angular (advantageous)
• Knowledge of other programming languages and tools (advantageous)

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain web services.
• API, Node.JS, JavaScript development, deployments and support.
• Development of web service backend.
• Building of web services on Group AWS Cloud. AWS Cloud and other Serverless development experience would
• be advantageous.
• Meet with product owners and gather requirements.
• Participate in stand-ups.
• Analyse and implement new system requirements specifications.
• Ensure that all processes are investigated / considered in obtaining the specifications of the user requirements.
• Propose and review system designs and evaluate alternatives.
• Review and present proposals / system solutions to IT Project Lead, DevOps Team, QA Team, and Product
• Owner / Business team.
• Develop systems solutions in line with IT Security standards and other compliance topics, quality standards and
• delivery requirements.
• Develop code that is readable, extendable, re-usable, scalable and optimized for performance.
• Ensure that all implementations can be passed over to other developers, mid development, with minimum of
• handover.
• Ensure compliance & adherence to standards for audit adherence and quality assurance.
• Actively participate and contribute to sprint planning, backlog refinement, story size estimation, sprint reviews.
• and retrospectives.
• Update user stories in Jira and documentation in Confluence.
• Perform Code & Peer Reviews.
• Perform demo's of user stories in Agile ceremonies.
• Analyse and fix Production Known Errors.
• System testing/parallel runs.
• Prepare Production deployment artefacts.
• Prepare Production deployment plan documents.
• Preparation of system/technical documentation (as per ISO standards).
• Preparation/Updating of user and operation manuals.
• System implementation / deployment & release activities.
• Production support & hyper-care after production deployments.

NB: Applicants must have South African citizenship or valid work permits. If you haven't received a response in two weeks, please consider your application unsuccessful.
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#iSanqa #ReliabilityEngineer #JavaScript #NodeJS #CloudDevelopment #RemoteWork #DevOps #Azure #APIDevelopment

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