Senior Software Engineer DevOps
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Takealot South Africas leading online retailer is looking for a highly talented Senior DevOps Engineerto join our team.
We are a young dynamic hypergrowth company looking for smart creative hardworking people with integrity to join us. We offer a marketrelated Total Remuneration Package which allows full flexibility according to your needs a great work environment and a promise that you wont be bored as long as you are prepared for a challenge and want to build something great.
Think youve been challenged before Think again!
- Scale: 4 million happy shoppers shop online on takealot. Show them what you can do.
- Learn: We work with the best of the best and then some. Code alongside industry leaders and upskill in record time.
- Grow: Expand your career in the fastgrowing Takealot Group: takealot and Mr D. We like to promote from within: Heres your chance.
Whos who in the tech space
The position reports to the DevOps Engineering Manager
Your mission should you choose to accept it:
- Terraform to manage Cloud Infrastructure Chef to manage virtual servers
- Building and deploying systems for metrics monitoring and logging
- Operations for Kafka Kubernetes Nginx Memcache and more
- Hardening servers and building security into the platform
- Developing automation so we can focus on the hard problems
- Developing glue code to extend or integrate systems
The skills we need:
- Is passionate about technology
- Is curious always learning and keeps up to date with the industry
- Is a team player an active listener mentee and able to communicate well
- Shows solid reasoning and decision making
- Possesses the ability to work under pressure
Qualifications & Experience:
- Bachelors Degree or Advanced Diploma in Information Systems Computer Science Mathematics Engineering and a minimum of 5 years experience in a software/technology environment is required.
- In the event that a candidate does not have a Bachelors Degree or an Advanced Diploma (in Information Systems Computer Science Mathematics or Engineering) an equivalent experience requirement must be met which equates to a minimum of 10 years experience in a software/technology environment.
- For a senior role: 5 to 10 years of relevant work experience
- An understanding of computer science fundamentals including Linux and operating systems networking
- Solid grasp of development fundamentals such as data structures and algorithms
- Can write code (we use Python)
- Have experience with Google Cloud or another cloud provider (architecture operations)
- Have experience managing Kubernetes Clusters (certificates users kubeadm etc.
- Understand networking deeply (tcp/ip calico/weave vlans tcpdump etc.
- Understand Linux deeply (kernel tuning proc filesystem cgroups os scheduling etc.
- Has experience with Linux administration (Processes Networking Disks Security)
- Has experience with one configuration management system (Chef Puppet Ansible)
- Has experience managing production systems
Lets talk about life @ Takealot Group
- The power is in your hands: We offer a marketrelated Total Remuneration Package which allows full flexibility according to your needs. Go on be the master of your own destiny.
- No doors: We arent fans of stuffy offices or siloed work environments. See someone you like High five collab and make something great.
- Remote working: Love water cooler chats and working from home Takealot offers a hybrid working model for the best of both worlds.
- Mentorship programme: We arent kidding when we say the people with the best people win. Nows your chance to be one of the best by learning from the best.
- Naspers Tech Community & Online Learning: Share ideas and grow with global industry leaders who are all just a Slack message away. Love to learn Upskill with free access to courses on MyAcademy Udacity Coursera and more.
- Good times: Get to know the other extraordinary minds at takealot during regular social events and outofoffice activities (think hikes think mini golf think good times).
- Staff discount. Millions of products across 28 departments. What more could you ask for
- Birthday leave: Cake Day all the way. Enjoy your day off you deserve it.
- Right tools right job: Mac or Windows two monitors or one. Whatever your preference youll work on the latest tech off the latest tech.
- Help when you need it most: Confidential counselling legal support and financial guidance for free anytime anywhere.
- Tech stack (for days): ReactJS Python Scala Kotlin Swift Google Cloud Kafka Redis Kubernetes and all things machine learning. If you build it they will come.
- Free parking: No more 5km fun runs to your desk (unless you want to).
Like what you see
If you meet the above you are an Extraordinary Mind. Apply today!!
Takealot is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants from the previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities will be given preference.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full Time
