System Performance Engineer
At Co-operative Bank “The Kingdom bank”, great ideas have a way of becoming great products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there’s no telling what you could accomplish. Imagine what you could do here.
Reporting
to the Head of ICT Quality Assurance, the role holder will be responsible
undertaking system performance measurements with the aim of monitoring
availability and uptime using banks enterprise tools and product specific
simulators to determine any variations and prompt correction.
At Co-operative Bank “The Kingdom bank”, great ideas have a way of becoming great products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there’s no telling what you could accomplish. Imagine what you could do here.
We’re
looking for a System Performance Engineer who is confident in their ability to
conduct system monitoring and performance benchmarking to ensure system
reliability, capacity handling, availability and uptime. The engineer should be
able to use industry enterprise solutions to monitor systems availability as
well as continuously update measurement metrics to much business growth. The
engineer should also be able to conduct performance and load tests to determine
the ability of the systems to maintain availability under stress.
Responsibilities
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Work with internal customers to
translate nonfunctional requirements into real world user scenarios to simulate
the transactions and volumes the system and set system performance baselines.
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Work closely with product owners and
support engineers, designers, developers and other testers to determine systems
performance thresholds against which continuous measurements will be done.
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Conduct day to day monitoring and
analysis of the systems and ensure the findings are relayed to system owners
and track the implementation of service tuning to ensure that the application /
products are within defined thresholds.
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Conduct system monitoring and
performance benchmarking to ensure system reliability, capacity handling,
availability and uptime as well as creating and maintaining a systems
availability dashboard showing availability status using an enterprise solution
(HP ITSM).
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Use industry enterprise solutions to
monitor systems availability as well as continuously update measurement metrics
to much business growth.
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Conduct performance and load tests to
determine the ability of the systems to maintain availability under stress.
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Perform proactive review of
applications and systems performance metrics and alerts to ensure event
correlation and trend analysis are performed on a regular basis.
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Create and maintain robust, reusable
data for performance tests using open source and enterprise solutions e.g
Jmeter and Load Runner scripts.
Qualifications
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A Bachelor of Science degree in
Computer Science or related degree from a recognized university.
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5+ years of programing/ system
engineering experience with 2 years systems monitoring experience with at least
one year of using any performance management tools.
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Very good knowledge of Windows
Operating Systems and a fair knowledge of Unix and Linux with experience in
using monitoring solutions such as HP ITSM.
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A good understanding of relational
databases, particularly SQL Server and Oracle coupled with experience in
relational data modeling, data management and data processing.
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Excellent understanding of
programming languages and other programming tools particularly Visual Basic,
C#, Java, HTML/CSS, XML and experience in software development (Java, Dot Net
development) knowledge.
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Strong analytical skills with the
ability to collect, organize, analyze, and disseminate significant amounts of
information with attention to detail and accuracy.
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Good knowledge of basic architecture
components of systems such as systems integration, communication protocols and
database connections and how they relate to the performance of applications.
How to Apply
If
you are confident that you fit the role and person profile and you are keen to
add value to your career then please forward your application enclosing
detailed Curriculum Vitae to jobs@co-opbank.co.ke indicating the job reference number “SPE/SSD/2019” by 5th March, 2019.
Integrations Developer
You
are brilliant, self-driven and have great follow-through. You are an
exceptional IT professional with solid programming skills, integrations
expertise and knowledge of database concepts and you possess strong analytical
and process improvement skills with proven proficiency in dealing with
corporate information systems in the banking sector.
Does
this sound like you? If yes, then look no further; Co-operative Bank of Kenya,
“The Kingdom Bank” is the ideal place for you, here, you will find growth
opportunities at every step of your career.
We
have an exciting opportunity for Integrations Developer to join our Systems
Development and Integration team. The role holder will be responsible for
detailed analysis, design, development, configuration, implementation, support
and maintenance of the respective integrations and systems within the bank and
will also be required to maintain and support applications within this section.
Responsibilities
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Analyze requests obtained from business
to determine operational problems, define integration requirements, advice best
way for integration and document the same.
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Develop new and manage existing SOA
integrations depending on the need and requirements.
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Develop polices and processes around SOA
systems, defining and executing lifecycle management compliance checkpoints and
reviews, assistance with technology management of Service Oriented
Infrastructure and SOA systems support for development, production and
management of SOA implementation.
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Develop and maintain SOA reference
architecture and assist in the management of the Universal Description,
Discovery and Integration (UDDI) services catalog, SOAP and REST, Web-services,
and Web Services Description Language (WSDL) to streamline the process of
managing the SOA system.
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Support the UDDI services catalog in
the development and management of SOA toolkits, reference architectures, and in
the integration and deployment of Web Services provided by other vendors into
the ESB and work with other vendors to configure and support SOA systems
internally.
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Design and code the system (web,
desktop and mobile applications) or interface according to user specification
as well as provide test systems for UAT and ensure that functions/features are
tested before being put on the live system.
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Develop and maintain
documentation/manuals on system configuration and make changes to system
configuration and parameters to accommodate business and technological
requirements.
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Assist in preparing system
definition/specification by the users highlighting technical requirements,
carry-out analysis of the requirements, recommend solutions to address user
requirements and ensure adherence to change control procedures in implementing
solutions.
Qualifications
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Bachelor’s degree in Computer
Science, Electronics Engineering, IT or related field from a recognized
university.
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At least 2 years’ experience in
implementing and supporting TIBCO products, Web-services, load balancing and
SOA implementation in development, test and production environment.
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Experience in performance monitoring,
load balancing, performance tuning/optimization, load testing, management of
SOA systems and must be able to independently carry out these functions
including capacity planning in TIBCO SOA products environments.
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Excellent understanding of
programming languages and other programming tools particularly C#, J2EE,
HTML/CSS, XML.
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Strong analytical, presentation and
troubleshooting skills with the ability to work through own initiative and as
part of a team
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Good knowledge and skills in
configuration and deployment of TIBCO components.
How to Apply
If
you are confident that you fit the role and person profile and you are keen to
add value to your career then please forward your application enclosing
detailed Curriculum Vitae to jobs@co-opbank.co.ke indicating the job reference number “ID/SSD/2019” by 1st March, 2019.
We
are an equal opportunity employer.