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First a bit about ANZ

At ANZ, everything we do boils down to ‘why’ - our purpose - to shape a world where people and communities thrive. We're just as focused on seeing our people thrive as well as our customers. We'll give you every opportunity to develop your career.

We are responding faster to changing customer requirements, focusing on the things that matter the most, energising our people, eliminating waste and reducing bureaucracy.

ANZ has started to move to a new way of working, leveraging agile practices. To understand more about this new way of working and if this role is right for you, we strongly encourage you to take a look at The ANZ Way vimeo channel where you’ll find The ANZ Way animation and the New Ways of Working animation.

Your team’s mission?

The purpose of the Group Payments Tech Area is to transform Payments by fortifying existing platforms, simplifying and standardising processes and technology and by enabling our business through reusable end to end services.

As a Performance Engineer, you’ll bring the following experience:

• Design and implementation of system benchmarks;
• Ensuring scalability, reliability, predictability and capacity sizing of service deployments;
• Performance requirements reviews;
• Load test results analysis and reportage;
• Provision and implementation of performance optimisations across software, storage, network and integration layers of the system;

In this role, you will have the opportunity to influence software design and specifications of highly complex and mission critical systems while working with a diverse team to implement cutting edge performance engineering techniques at scale.

You will be a member of the Engineering Chapter. As a member you will share ideas and knowledge and partner with your Chapter Lead to uplift the capability of the chapter.

Who are you?

• A team player - I know we only win if we all win. I recognise and value the different perspectives and skills my squad mates bring. It is not about being a hero but jumping in and contributing to the successful delivery of our mission
• The customer’s greatest fan - I demonstrate a thirst for better understanding the customer, defines the problem and develop solutions through their eyes
• A collaboration champion - I champion collaboration and builds the expertise, capabilities and engagement of team members that are embedded across multiple squads
• Comfortable being uncomfortable - I am comfortable with uncertainty and have the ability to effectively manage myself through ambiguity by making meaning, building relationships and creating clarity with my peers
• Continuous improvement junkie - I constructively challenge the status quo, I look for better ways of doing things and passionately advocate continuous improvement
• Committed to my own and other’s growth - I strive to stretch and grow myself and others by identifying my own development areas, seeking feedback and providing feedback to others to help them learn and grow everyday
• A Problem Solver - I am energised by tackling complex problems. I use my critical thinking, network, skills, knowledge, and available data to drive better outcomes for our customers and the bank
• Commercially and Tech curious - I have a wide-angled lens. I am curious about what’s happening in the external market and in emerging trends and innovations (technological and otherwise) and how we use this information to better inform our decisions and actions.
• Risk savvy - I build sustainable solutions that protect stakeholders and customers and proactively address risks by role-modelling improvements in the bank’s overall risk and control environment

What you bring to the role as a support Engineer in Payments:

• 10 years of performance engineering (analysis, design, test and implementation) experience with a proven track record of excellence;
• Extensive Java, Java EE, REST, XML, Messaging development experience with any Application Servers;
• To be fluent in memory handling and analysis in Java; you will be an expert in escape analysis and memory leak analysis;
• Sound understanding of Garbage Collection and memory settings of JVM;
• A thorough understanding of concurrency in Java;
• Experience in Performance Benchmark design, implementation, automation(load generation tools like Load UI etc.) and CI/CD tools;
• Experience analysing performance issues related to database operations;
• Have a thorough understanding of the practical aspects of concepts like caching, locking, thread safety etc.
• Having worked in containerised deployment - docker; kubernetes; openshift etc.;
• Willingness to promote and debate your ideas, and the capacity to accept accountability for, and learn from, failures.

At ANZ we aim to create an inclusive environment where employee differences such as gender, age, culture, disability, sexual orientation, family and caring responsibilities and religion are valued and supported.

We work flexibly at ANZ. Talk to us and let us know how this role can be flexible for you.”
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