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Specialist – Devops Engineer

Safaricom
On-site
Addis Ababa Addis Ababa Ethiopia

Role purpose:




The position holder will be responsible for working with application developers to automate and accelerate the testing, release, and deployment of applications into a runtime environment quickly and reliably. The DevOps Engineer will have a background in development, operations, and full-stack implementations. The DevOps engineer acts as a fulcrum between development and operational teams, and basically forms the foundation of the entire DevOps environment




Key accountabilities and decision ownership



  • Develop and maintain Continuous Integration (CI) / Continuous Deployment (CD) strategy that allows the organization to use DevOps at scale.

  • Envision, build, and execute automated testing plans for all the software developed in the organization and provide reporting templates for monitoring testing coverage.

  • Contribute to developing best practices for infrastructure as code (such as Puppet, Shell scripting); software build tools (such as Maven, Gradle, etc.) and continuous integration tools (such as Jenkins, TeamCity, etc.)

  • Mentoring and coaching junior software developers in gaining experience and assuming DevOps responsibilities.

  • Design, build & maintain infrastructure to support a continuous software development process, including all phases of development, quality assurance and software deployment.

  • Provides direction into standards and procedures for monitoring, capacity planning, tuning, maintenance, performance optimization, backups, and recovery; ensures infrastructure will meet capacity requirements to deliver on time.

  • Setup/Configuration/Administration of code Repositories like Git, SVN

  • Manage Image storage to ensure consistency and recoverability of the same as required.

  • Development of process and procedures of code versions to ensure proper governance and security is always maintained within the enterprise.

  • Acts as a thought leader for DevOps practice in the organization while working with stakeholders to select “fit for purpose tools” to be used in the DevOps orchestration/automation processes.


 


Planning


 


•       Develop a deep understanding of the Hybrid integration, iPaaS and Cloud solutions and customer pain points


•       Capacity planning and modernize core enterprise platforms to ensure we operate below 70% and on N-1 Version


 


 Core competencies, knowledge, and experience:


Business Competencies




• Must be able to work without supervision & meet tight deadlines/schedules.


• A strong desire to learn and figure out how to create state of the art API using the latest technology


 


Must have technical / professional qualifications:


 



  • Bachelor’s degree from a recognized university.

  • Certification in cloud technologies such as Kubernetes, OpenShift or related.

  • Use of DevOps tools such as Jenkins, Ansible or similar and professional software development using JAVA, Python etc. is required.

  • 3 years’ experience in commercial software development with at least 2 years’ experience in developing release pipelines and GitOps frameworks.

  • Proficient in scripting.

  • Hands-on knowledge of configuration management and deployment tools like Puppet, Ansible, Chef, Terraform.

  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills


 


Desired


• A very good understanding about Java, Spring boot, spring, SOAP, XML, RESTful api and our mainstream IDEs such IntelliJ and VSCode


• Certification in cloud native technologies such as Kubernetes


 


How To Apply


 


If you feel that you are up to the challenge and possess the necessary qualification and experience, kindly proceed to update your candidate profile on the career portal and then Click on the apply button. Remember to attach your resume.


 


The closing date for receiving applications is Wednesday December 04,2024