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2847 Operations Engineer

Imizizi


Job Location:

Pretoria - South Africa

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer
Posted: 21 August 2026 (16 days ago)
Application Deadline: 18 November 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Reference: JHB001579-NS-1

ESSENTIAL SKILLS:


  • Behavioral Competencies:

  • Analytical troubleshooting

  • Customer support

  • Structured communication

  • Service ownership

  • Cross-functional collaboration

  • IT Service Management:

  • Incident Problem and Change Management

  • Major Incident and Escalation Management

  • ITIL principles

  • Application Support & Troubleshooting:

  • Java enterprise application support

  • JVM monitoring and analysis

  • Application log analysis exception handling and stack trace interpretation

  • Incident investigation and production issue resolution

  • Root Cause Analysis (RCA)

  • APIs & Integration Support:

  • REST API troubleshooting

  • JSON payload analysis and validation

  • Web services support and diagnostics

  • Integration monitoring and troubleshooting

  • Message processing reconciliation and retry management

  • Infrastructure & Platform Support:

  • SQL querying and database validation

  • Networking fundamentals (DNS HTTPS Firewalls Load Balancers)

  • Authentication technologies (SSO LDAP Active Directory)

  • Monitoring & Observability:

  • Grafana dashboard monitoring

  • Loki log querying

  • Service health monitoring

  • SLA tracking and performance analysis

  • Transaction tracing



ADVANTAGEOUS SKILLS:


  • Automotive & Business Knowledge:

  • Vehicle sales processes

  • Pricing and offer workflows

  • Contract generation

  • Finance and leasing awareness

  • Dealership operations

  • Industry Experience:

  • Financial services systems support

  • Dealer Management Systems (DMS)

  • Enterprise SaaS support

  • High-availability production environments

  • Development (Coding) & Technical Understanding:

  • HTML CSS and JavaScript

  • Java application architecture

  • CI/CD pipelines

  • Advanced Support Capabilities:

  • Advanced SQL analysis

  • Middleware administration

  • API Gateway support

  • Cloud platforms (Azure AWS GCP)

  • Kubernetes awareness

  • Automation and scripting

  • Governance & Quality:

  • ITIL Foundation Certification

  • KPI reporting

  • Risk and audit awareness

Duties & Responsibilities
ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Monitor application health using Grafana and Loki.
  • Investigate and resolve production incidents.
  • Perform log analysis and transaction tracing.
  • Support dealer and business user issues.
  • Troubleshoot front-end back-end and integration failures.
  • Perform initial root cause analysis and document findings.
  • Support releases deployments and production changes.
  • Support operational excellence goals by applying strong operations knowledge to reduce incidents.
  • Co-ordinate with Level 3 for development and infrastructure activities.
  • Advantageous: Perform code debugging code fixes and root-cause analysis for application issues.
  • Prepare and maintain standard operating procedures runbooks and system documentation.

QUALIFICATIONS/EXPERIENCE:
  • IT Degree or Diploma / equivalent working experience.
  • 5-10 years application support experience in enterprise environments. Experience supporting Java
  • applications production systems integration SQL databases and monitoring platforms such as Grafana and
  • Loki. Automotive dealer management or financial services experience is advantageous.
  • ITIL Foundation / other relevant certification advantageous.

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Required Experience:

IC