Operations Engineer (TTD)
Sabenza IT Recruitment · Pretoria
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Are you the person everyone calls when a production system decides to misbehave at 2 PM on a Friday?
We’re looking for an Operations Engineer who thrives in the world of enterprise application support, production troubleshooting, integrations and monitoring.
You’ll be part of a global IT environment, supporting business-critical applications and helping ensure that customers and business users experience smooth, reliable and efficient digital services.
This is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys getting hands-on with Java applications, APIs, SQL, logs, monitoring platforms and production incidents, while working closely with development, infrastructure and business teams.
Application Detective
- Monitor application health using Grafana and Loki.
- Investigate production incidents and identify what went wrong.
- Analyse application logs, exceptions and stack traces.
- Perform transaction tracing to follow issues from start to finish.
- Conduct initial Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and document findings.
- Troubleshoot front-end, back-end and integration failures.
Production Problem Solver
- Take ownership of incidents from investigation through to resolution.
- Support Incident, Problem and Change Management processes.
- Handle major incidents and escalations when things get serious.
- Track SLAs and help ensure production services remain reliable.
- Work with Level 3 development and infrastructure teams when deeper technical intervention is required.
Integration & API Troubleshooter
- Troubleshoot REST APIs and web services.
- Analyse and validate JSON payloads.
- Investigate integration failures and message-processing issues.
- Support reconciliation, retries and failed transactions.
- Help keep integrations between systems running smoothly.
Technical Troubleshooter
- Support enterprise Java applications and JVM environments.
- Perform SQL queries and database validation.
- Investigate issues involving DNS, HTTPS, firewalls and load balancers.
- Troubleshoot authentication technologies such as SSO, LDAP and Active Directory.
- Assist with releases, deployments and production changes.
- Where required, perform code debugging, code fixes and deeper root-cause analysis.
Keep Things Under Control
- Create and maintain standard operating procedures, runbooks and technical documentation.
- Work according to ITIL and operational best practices.
- Contribute to operational excellence initiatives.
- Identify recurring problems and help reduce incidents before they happen.
Benefits
- Global enterprise technology environments
- Modern cloud platforms and infrastructure
- Observability and monitoring technologies
- Agile ways of working
- Dynamic international collaboration
- Remote and on-site flexibility
- Modern, cutting-edge IT solutions
- A strong work-life balance
- A fast-paced environment where your ideas and technical expertise matter
Posted By
Sam Maistry