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Discovery Ltd is the licensed controlling company of the designated Discovery Insurance Group.
Application Administrator (Senior) Job Vacancy at Discovery – South Africa
Key Purpose
The successful candidate will be responsible for implementing and supporting various middleware technologies and ensuring their performance, availability and security as a member of the Life Infrastructure Application team.
Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to
- Day to day maintenance of the Middleware environments
- Responsible for ensuring availability and performance
- To proactively monitor the systems to ensure minimum downtime
- Responsible for the improvement and maintenance of the solutions, including upgrades and security patches.
- Responsible for implementation and release of middleware solutions on-premise and in AWS / OCI / Azure.
- Providing technical middleware and performance advice to development teams
- Middleware capacity management
- General middleware troubleshooting
- Implementation and enforcement of Discovery standards and procedures
- Life Infrastructure standby and shift duties
Application Administrator (Senior) Job Vacancy at Discovery – South Africa
Education and Experience
Essential:
- Matric
- BSc Comp Sc/ BSc Info Systems or equivalent tertiary qualification
- The applicant MUST have 5 years experience managing complex solution stacks without direct supervision
- Certification in a middleware j2ee offering. (JBOSS, Weblogic, Websphere)
Advantageous:
- Dynatrace APM Experience
- AWS SysOps , DevOps or Associate Architect Certification
- ITIL
Technical Skills and Knowledge
Essential:
- Experience in managing
- Experience in configuration and release automation
- Experience in managing complex middleware solutions on native servers and containerized platforms such as Openshift, EKS, Fargate, VMWare Tanzu.
- Experience in monitoring and tuning middleware solutions
- Experience configuring and using automation tooling for the provisioning and management of the entire development and runtime environment.
- (Jenkins, Chef/Puppet/Salt etc, ansible/terraform/cloud formation).
Advantageous:
- Advanced troubleshooting skills
- AWS Cloud deployments using S3, EC2, ALB, CloudWatch, EKS, Fargate.
Competencies:
- Ability to work both independently and participate as a member of a cross-functional team.
- Ability to prioritize and work on multiple tasks simultaneously.
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
- Attention to detail
- Solution oriented
- Delivery focused
- Ability to deal with pressure