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Safaricom Telecommunication Ethiopia

Specialist - Devops Engineer



Employer: Safaricom Telecommunication Ethiopia
Employment: Full-Time | Permanent
Place of Work: Addis Ababa, Addis Abeba - Ethiopia
Posted date: 8 months ago
Deadline: Submission date is over

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 forms the foundation of the entire DevOps environment

Key accountabilities and decision ownership

  • Develop and maintain a 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 processes 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 modernizing 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

Creativity and Innovation

  • Excellent Problem-solving skills

Working with Change

  • Excellent communication skills
  •  Quick to adopt and willingness to work/deliver in a short period

Creativity and Innovation

  • Find creative ways to exploit opportunities and solve problems
  • Takes risks and pushes what is possible
  • Experiments with unorthodox approaches

Business Know-how

  • Uses data and research to make decisions that are competitively and financially robust
  • Balances current and future needs
  • Thinks and acts like an owner of the business
  • Acts in line with legal, regulatory, professional and ethical standards

Project and Programme Management

  • Defines scope and deliverables in terms of time, cost, quality and business benefit
  • Schedules activity and identifies resource needs, dependencies and synergies
  • Evaluate progress, mitigate risks and address issues

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, and Terraform.
  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills



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