Technical Specialist at FNB South Africa

September 8, 2025, 6:51 AM

Are you someone who can do the following:

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System Administration (Red Hat Linux):

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• Manage and maintain Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) servers.

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• Perform patching, upgrades, performance tuning, and troubleshooting.

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• Implement security hardening and compliance (SELinux, firewalld, auditing).

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Application Support:

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• Provide Level 2/3 support for business-critical applications running on RHEL.

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• Monitor application logs, resource usage, and dependencies.

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• Work with developers to troubleshoot performance, integration, and deployment issues.

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Infrastructure Engineering:

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• Design and maintain infrastructure solutions (on-prem or cloud-hosted).

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• Capacity planning and scaling.

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• Storage, networking, and backup integration into application environments.

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DevOps & Automation

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Ansible:

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• Write playbooks/roles for configuration management and automation.

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• Standardize server builds and patching automation.

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• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for repeatable deployments.

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CI/CD Pipelines:

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• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI, Tekton).

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• Automate build, test, and deployment processes.

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• Integrate static code analysis, unit testing, and artifact management.

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Kubernetes / Containerization:

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• Deploy, manage, and troubleshoot applications in Kubernetes/Openshift.

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• Build and manage container images (Docker, Podman).

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• Ensure proper monitoring, logging, scaling, and failover strategies.

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Operational Support

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• Incident, Problem, and Change management (ITIL-aligned).

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• Root cause analysis and long-term remediation.

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• On-call participation for critical infrastructure/application issues.

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• Monitoring (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK, Splunk).

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Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement

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• Work closely with Developers to support application deployment and performance.

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• Partner with QA/Testing teams to align environments with testing needs.

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• Collaborate with Infrastructure Architects on solution design.

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• Guide junior engineers and act as a technical SME (Subject Matter Expert).

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Key Skills

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• OS/Infra: RHEL, systemd, networking (TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing).

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• Scripting: Bash, Python (for automation and integration).

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• DevOps Tools: Ansible, Git, Jenkins, GitLab, ArgoCD/Tekton.

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• K8s/Openshift: Deployment, Helm, Operators, namespaces, RBAC, secrets/configmaps.

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• Monitoring/Logging: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK, Splunk.

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• Security & Compliance: Patching, vulnerability management, IAM.

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Soft Skills

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• Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills.

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• Communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

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• Documentation and knowledge sharing.

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• Adaptability across infrastructure and application layers

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Dare to imagine the change with us if you are:

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• An adaptable problem solver who does not fear change but thrives from it.

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• A disruptor in your field of IT expertise

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• An initiative taker who identifies opportunity and improves

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• Known for your delivery track record.

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• Wanting to be in a career that makes meaningful contribution to your and other people's lives.

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You’ll benefit from our changeable benefits like:

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• Opportunities to network and collaborate.

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• Inspiring work environment

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• Work that is challenging

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• Space to make a difference.

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• Opportunities to innovate.

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• Conditions that are flexible

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• Focus on health and wellbeing (onsite wellness center, gym and crèche at our main campus to innovative employee wellbeing and financial fitness programmes)

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• Resources to help you with your professional development.

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• Generous leave policy

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• Preferential employee banking rates

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• When it comes to learning and development, we encourage our changeable to expand their knowledge, on their own, with others, in person or online.

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• As for our workspace, it is immersive, collaborative, and energetic because at FNB, innovation is our lifeblood and change in our DNA.

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End Date: September 13, 2025

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