• Employer: Safaricom Telecommunication Ethiopia

• Job Time: Full-Time

• Job Type: Permanent

• Place of Work: Addis Ababa, Addis Abeba - Ethiopia

• Deadline: December, 04/2024

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

Duties & Responsibilities:

• 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

Job Requirements

• 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

Desired

• A very good understanding of 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

• Interested and qualified applicants can apply using THIS LINK