Specialist - Devops Engineer at Safaricom Telecommunication Ethiopia

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Specialist - Devops Engineer

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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

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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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