Intern IT (12 Months)

What will you do?

Job Purpose

The Intern IT (GPA) is responsible for helping build high performing, scalable, enterprise grade applications. This includes but is not limited to applying critical thinking, design thinking and problem-solving skills in an agile team environment to solve complex technical problems (Front End, Back End and Integration) with high quality implementations & getting involved in all phases of the development lifecycle. 

Key Outcomes

The following outcomes will be expected to be achieved by Intern
DevOps: 

• Apply critical thinking, design thinking and problem-solving skills in an agile team environment to solve complex technical problems (Front End, Back End and Integration) with high quality solutions leveraging C# (.NET), SQL Server, JavaScript/Typescript, ReactJs, Jenkins, Kubernetes, RabbitMQ, Git
• Contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle
• Produce well-organised, optimized, and documented source code to deliver technical solutions
• Leverage troubleshooting skills and underlying knowledge of technology to solve technical challenges during the design, implementation and support phase of the project
• Implement general design patterns and paradigms to deliver technical solutions
• Create & Maintain DevSecOps CI/CD Pipelines (authoring & supporting CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins and AzureDevOps for deployment to multi-site environments – supporting and managing your applications all the way to production).
• Debug existing source code and polish feature sets.
• Apply unit testing frameworks and perform integration, validation and verification testing using Moq and MsTest
• Work with project & program teams to plan & manage the development lifecycle e.g. releases, risk management, testing, integration etc.

People

•  Work with other team members under the leadership of the Lead Product Engineer to deliver solutions
• Conduct peer reviews, testing, problem solving within and across the broader team
• Participate in the development & development planning of the broader product engineering team
• Self-leadership to learn, develop skills and confidence

Risk & Governance

• Participate in incident management & DR activity – applying critical thinking, problem solving & technical expertise to get to the bottom of major incidents
• Deliver on time & within specification

Qualifications and Requirements  

• Relevant qualification in IT, preferably a degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Informatics or equivalent
• Must reside in Gauteng
• Must have no prior work experience or have 6 months or less internship/work experience
• Must be 28 years old or younger

Competencies

• Client focus
• Cultivates innovation
• Collaborates
• Being resilient
• Drive results
• Problems solving
• Discipline
• Cultivates Innovation 

Attributes

• Self-mastery
• Teamwork
• Honesty, integrity and respect

What will make you successful in this role?

Qualification and Experience

Knowledge and Skills

Personal Attributes

Build a successful career with us

We’re all about building strong, lasting relationships with our employees. We know that you have hopes for your future – your career, your personal development and of achieving great things. We pride ourselves in helping  our employees to realise their worth. Through its five business clusters – Sanlam Fintech, Sanlam Life and Savings, Sanlam Investment Group, Sanlam Allianz, Santam, as well as MiWay and the Group Office – the group provides many opportunities for growth and development.

Core Competencies

Turnaround time

The shortlisting process will only start once the application due date has been reached. The time taken to complete this process will depend on how far you progress and the availability of managers. 

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