IT Job Scheduler I at Sanlam Group

What will you do?

Under general supervision schedules operational time of information systems in order to ensure that the information systems equipment is effectively utilised. Recommends standard policies and procedures for providing routine service. Coordinates preventive maintenance requirements with operating requirements.

What will make you successful in this role?

• Assist with management, implementation and configuration of application deployments to multiple target environments.
• Manage and maintain application platforms to ensure stability and continued high performance of said platforms and applications deployed thereon.
• Assist in implementing, managing and configuration of environment, platform and application monitoring.  
• Assisting in the constant investigation and configuration of the monitoring solution products to obtain best value for Business. 
• Continual investigation into best practices, methodologies and tooling for deployment, monitoring, release and configuration management and all other relevant disciplines. Documentation of the aforementioned investigation is compulsory.
•  Assist Change, Incident, Project and Release Management resources with reporting and provide consultation around runtime and deployment operations.
• Build, manage and maintain application platforms and ensure that best practices and governance is adhered to in current and future environments. 
• Ensure that tooling and platform obsolesce is avoided and managed in the form of roadmaps and upgrades. 
• Support of the currently employed toolsets and process. 
• Facilitate the automation of deployment workflows and processes, as well as platform/infrastructure provision and maintenance.

Qualifications and Experience
Qualifications

1. Matric
2. NQF5 or Undergraduate Degree in Information Technology/CompSci/Information Systems

Experience (preferable)

• 2-4 years in the field of Information Technology
• 1-3 years runtime operations support in some form
• 1-3 years as a basic Linux user
• 1-3 years in deployment operations

Knowledge

Application platform, maintenance, implementation and configuration of the following (or similar):

1. Apache Tomcat
2. Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)
3. RedHat JBoss EAP (or Wildfly)
4. Infrastructure/Application configuration management tooling including the following (or similar):
5. DevOps tooling exposure
6. Atlassian JIRA (Issue tracking/work-piece Management)
7. Ansible
8. Chef
9. Puppet
10. Understand the concept of integration of web-based services and practical use of APIs, REST and SOAP services.
11. Understand conceptual makeup of the SDLC and in particular, with regards to the implementation phase, the change in responsibilities based on level of agility. 
12. Understanding and practical exposure to the generally accepted CI/CD principles and makeup of the pipeline.
13. Understanding of relationships and integration between host, operating system, platform and application layers. Knowledge of integration between application touch-points such as directory services (ie LDAP), databases, load balancers and reverse-proxies are also beneficial.

Personal Attributes

1. Interpersonal savvy - Contributing dependently
2. Decision quality - Contributing dependently
3. Action orientated - Contributing dependently
4. Optimises work processes - Contributing dependently
5. Build a successful career with us
6. We’re all about building strong, lasting relationships with our employees. We know that you have hopes for your future – your career, your personal development and of achieving great things. We pride ourselves in helping  our employees to realise their worth. Through its four business clusters – Sanlam Life and Savings, Sanlam Investment Group, Sanlam Emerging Markets, Santam, as well as MiWay and the Group Office – the group provides many opportunities for growth and development.

Core Competencies

1. Cultivates innovation - Contributing dependently
2. Customer focus - Contributing dependently
3. Drives results - Contributing dependently
4. Collaborates - Contributing dependently
5. Being resilient - Contributing dependently