Onsite Application Support Engineer
Job in
Midrand, Gauteng, South Africa
Listed on 2026-06-19
Listing for:
Optasia
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-06-19
Job specializations:
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IT/Tech
Technical Support, IT Support, Unix/Linux, Systems Administrator
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Optasia is a fully enabled B2B2X financial technology platform covering scoring, financial decisioning, disbursement and collection. We are committed to enabling financial inclusion for all.
We are changing the world our way
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- Serve as technical L1 & L2 escalation point for troubleshooting application, system and network issues related to the Services provided by Optasia to the customer projects that you will be assigned to work on
- Take ownership of customer issues reported and seeing problems through to resolution within SLA target times
- Work on a stand‑by basis outside of standard working hours to cooperate with your counterparts when there is a need to deal with a system outage or system degradation
- Work with customer's and/or Optasia's internal technical teams to evaluate and solve technical problems and reduce duration of customer impact and/or loss of services during major incidents and outages
- Follow standard procedures for proper escalation of unresolved issues to the appropriate MNO and/or Optasia's teams
- Act as a Optasia local Single‑Point‑of‑Contact for Service Operations‑related matters and seek to accelerate progress of such matters
- Participate in the technical meetings where Optasia's presence is required by MNO
- Log and update the technical tickets properly to MNO's and/or Optasia's ticket logging system
- Proactively work to identify ways to improve and streamline processes
- Bachelor's Degree in computer science or similar
- 5+ years of working experience in a similar role
- Hands‑on experience with SQL and/or Postgres databases
- Hands‑on Linux & Networking experience is required
- Good written and verbal communication skills
- Diligence and attention to detail are also key skills along with ability to multi‑task and prioritize work appropriately
- Strong technical troubleshooting skills and problem solving. Demonstrated ability to think through situations outside the norm and develop appropriate solutions for isolating the root cause
- Capable of understanding the technical aspects of complex systems
- Fluent in English
- Experience in monitoring, alerting, metrics systems (Nagios, Grafana, Kibana)
- Familiarity with containerization methodologies i.e. Docker
- Familiarity with Atlassian Jira and Confluence
Competitive remuneration package
Extra day off on your birthday
Performance-based bonus scheme
All the tech gear you need to work smart
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