# Associate Operations Engineer

What will you do? The Data Platform Operations Engineer supports the day-to-day operational management of Sanlam Business Intelligence’s (SBI) data platforms and workloads across the on-premise and AWS environments. Working under the direction of the Operations Manager, the role performs defined operational checks, patching and platform maintenance, access administration, monitoring, first-line triage, housekeeping and coordination activities, so that the engineering and data hub teams can stay focused on delivery. You will play a hands-on role in keeping the platforms healthy, secure and cost-efficient, and an equally important role in operational follow-through, maintaining accurate operational records, tracking incidents, requests and changes to closure across SBI, SGT, BCX, the Sanlam data platform teams and vendors, and helping to improve the reliability, governance and efficiency of the SBI environment. The role works closely with the Operations Manager, the Tech& engineering team and the data hub (Workload) teams. Workload teams remain accountable for application logic, data quality and workload-specific resolution, and complex technical resolution sits with the engine

- **Id**: 3916623
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/sanlam-associate-operations-engineer>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: junior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: South Africa
- **Countries**: ZA
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-10-20T15:10:52Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-10-20T15:10:52Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 17
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5575
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Property & Casualty Insurance, Asset Management & Funds, Life Insurance & Annuities

## Company

- **Id**: 2194082
- **Name**: Sanlam
- **Domain**: sanlam.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/sanlam-co-za>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: SuccessFactors

## Technologies

- **Amazon CloudWatch** — Optional: no
- **Amazon EC2** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Bash** — Optional: no
- **GitHub** — Optional: no
- **IAM** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **PowerShell** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **Windows** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 17

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-07T12:25:15Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 6
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 0.85
- **P active**: 0.216
- **P room**: 0.35
- **Age days**: 17
- **Expected fill days**: 3
- **Reasons**: seen:17, win:tail, comp:junior
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T14:26:29Z

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