Data & DevOps Engineer at takealot.com

This position reports to the Data Platform Team Lead

Your responsibilities will include:

• Terraform to manage Cloud Infrastructure, Chef to manage virtual servers

• Building and deploying systems for metrics, monitoring, and logging

• Operations for Kafka, Kubernetes, and more

• CI/CD Build Systems to ensure our teams can deploy frequently and safely

• Code management and review

• Hardening servers, and building security into the platform

• Developing automation so we can focus on the hard problems

• Implementing features, technology, and processes that move us towards industry best practices, improving on scalability, efficiency, reliability, and security

• Responding to incidents and requests

Attributes required:

• Is passionate about technology, enjoys keeping up to date with the industry

• Always learning

• Is a team player that can function as an individual 

• Excellent communication skills

• Shows solid reasoning and decision making

• Has a deep understanding of database engines

• Confident in his/her ability and skills

Qualifications and experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree or Advanced Diploma in Information Systems, Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering and a minimum of 3 years of DataOps experience in a software/technology environment is required.

• In the event that a candidate does not have a bachelor’s 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 6 years of DataOps experience in a software/technology environment. 

• 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 (preferably in Python)

• Experience with open source relational database systems (MySQL, PostgreSQL)

• Practical experience working with other database systems like BigQuery, Redis and ElasticSearch will be beneficial

• Has experience with Kafka, PubSub, or other event-based systems

• Has experience with Google Cloud, or another cloud provider (architecture, operations)

• Understands cost and implications of scaling 

• Has experience managing Kubernetes Clusters (certificates, users, kubeadm, kubectl etc.)

• Understands networking deeply (tcp/ip, calico/weave, vlans, tcpdump, routing etc.)

• Understands Linux deeply (kernel tuning, proc filesystem, cgroups, os scheduling, etc.)

• Has experience with Build Systems (Jenkins, Gitlab, Spinnaker)

• Has a reasonable understanding of Networking (TCP, UDP, IP)

• Has experience with Linux administration (Processes, Networking, Storage, Security)

• Has experience with at least one configuration management system (Chef, Puppet, Ansible)

• Has experience managing production systems

The Environment:

• takealot.com employees are entrepreneurial and dynamic, smart, customer-centric, fun and have the shared ambition of takealot.com being the leading e-commerce company in Africa.

• We have fun, work hard, take ownership, work in teams to create solutions and are always open to direct feedback/new ideas on where we can improve.

• We are short on ego and high on output.

• We are doers and not only thinkers, its all in the execution after all.

• We love what we do and what we are creating.

We seek to employ an Extraordinary Mind who:

• is forthright but respectful

• is an expert at doing, who can not only design but also execute

• is analytical, able to use data to make decisions

• is competitive, self-directed and strive to be the BEST (GREAT requires a lot of work and does not only happen during business hours

• is passionate about the potential of e-commerce and delivering a world-class customer experience

• is entrepreneurial, thrives under change and accepts it is a constant and always looks for solutions to do something better and faster

• is able to think about problems from a business perspective using technical and product input

• is curious and challenge the status quo

• is innovative and enjoys iteration

• is collaborative

• will be at the cutting edge of developing new concepts for takealot.com.

• thinks like an owner of the business.

• is SMART, has INTEGRITY and is HARDWORKING