Integration Specialist
The Position
The Integration Specialist
will be responsible for the overall availability, stability, scalability and
security of the KCB integration landscape including KCB Red Hat OpenShift
Cluster (OCP), API Managements, ESB Platform, and its suite of products and other
integration services deployed within the bank.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide
support for all Middleware/integration platforms and/or java container
related issues and triage application issues as related to the J2EE
container.
- Participate
and guides in development, deployment, maintenance, and management of
best-in-class enterprise systems & integration platforms for
business-partner integrations and by third-party applications and services.
- Implementing
high availability, fault tolerant strategies, and load balancing based on
Integration platforms of products capabilities.
- Manage
middleware environments and provide support to application support and
business teams. The job holder will also participate in quality assurance
activities for integration related solutions before they are transitioned
to production.
- Work
independently and collaboratively with other support teams to troubleshoot
integration platforms, server performance issues and tune the environment
based on findings to achieve desired outcomes.
- Collaborate
with other software developers, business analysts and software architects
to plan, design, assist in the collection and documentation of user’s
requirements, development of user stories, estimates and work plans.
- Provide
detailed incident reports and root cause analysis and suggest workarounds
/ interventions and/or solutions for recurring issues affecting Middleware
applications. Continuously devise or modify procedures to solve complex
and recurrent problems and maintaining a knowledge base of the known
problems and solutions.
- Periodic
or adhoc patching of the middleware application environments – applying
maintenance updates such as fix packs to the broker/integration nodes and
ensuring the whole environment is up to date in relation to patching.
- Monitoring
all Middleware application environments – transactions, services, files
transfers, operating system, database health and the environment in
general and issue periodic consumable health status of the environment.
- Manage/action
service requests raised directly or escalated to the middleware & integration
support team and within the pre-determined SLA
- Document
and implement integration service development governance and standards.
This includes API standards, DevOps practices and cloud adoption.
Coordinate releases of new products and services into production, ensure
alignment of all stakeholders, review runbooks and change work
instructions to ensure deployment as per plan while achieving
non-functional and operational requirements.
- Maintain
an up to date detailed configuration matrix for all middleware services
and the integration landscape / environment.
- Provide
input and implement a disaster recovery plan with run book and periodic
planning for disaster recovery tests. Perform backup and recovery of the
Middleware applications, and effectively support resolution of any post
recovery issues. Maintaining the DR environment in ready state. In
collaborations with other teams invoke fail over activities to the DR.
Qualifications
For the above position,
the successful applicant should have the following:
- Bachelor’s
degree in Information Technology/ Computer Science/ or related field.
- A
Professional Certification in Middleware or Integration.
- 5
years’ experience in Technology
- 4
years’ experience in Redhat Integrations, [ESB – SOA and web services
concepts] and integration technologies coupled with complementary areas of
knowledge.
- 4
years’ experience with messaging systems preferably RedHat MQ, AMQ, IBM MQ
and messaging concepts and technologies.
- 3
years’ experience with DevSecOps, and CI/CD automation tools such as
Jenkins, JMeter, Git, Stash, SonarQube, GitOps.
- 2
years’ experience in RDBMS working with large and high-performance
databases such as Oracle, Mongo DB.
- Knowledge
of Java, J2EE, XML, Redhat Openshift.
How to Apply
The above position is
demanding role for which the Bank will provide a competitive remuneration
package to the successful candidate. If you believe you can clearly demonstrate
your abilities to meet the criteria given above, please log in to our
Recruitment portal and submit your application with a detailed CV.
To be considered your
application must be received by Tuesday 7th February 2023.
Qualified candidates with
disability are encouraged to apply.
Only short-listed
candidates will be contacted.
