Specialist: Software Engineer at Vodacom

Role Purpose

The Specialist Software Engineer role is based within the Technology Business Unit.

The role of the Specialist Software Engineer is to be responsible for the development of new and existing products and shared microservices by creating prototypes and designing and building modules and solutions in iterative agile cycles. Develop, maintain, and optimize the business outcome. This role is responsible for estimating user and technical stories, designing and developing code, writing and executing unit and integration tests, and supporting testing of deliverables against the user and technical story acceptance tests

Your Responsibilities Will Include

• Estimate user and technical stories to help inform and prioritize the backlog.
• Design modules according to user stories and technical stories.
• Develop solutions according to designs and deploy using continuous integration and deployment pipelines.
• Develop and execute unit and integration tests; support testing against the user and technical story acceptance tests.
• Integrate the image-scanning and signing process to prevent vulnerabilities as part of an enterprise’s continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) process.
• Ensure applications are scanned during the build and run phases of the software development life cycle, emphasizing the scanning and identification of open-source components, libraries, and frameworks.
• Set up mandatory access controls, ensure separation of duties, and institute a secrets management policy.
• Deploy security products that provide whitelisting, behavioral monitoring, and anomaly detection to prevent malicious activity.
• Implement strong version control for code and components and by training the developers, and QA teams on secure coding practices.
• Deploy infrastructure automation tools to ensure that infrastructure provisioning and management are automated and streamlined to account for the dynamic nature of containerized workloads.
• Build and test applications in production-like environments by integrating DevOps toolchains with Kubernetes-based container orchestration tools.
• Focus on instrumenting applications to enable observability. This will involve deploying tools for additional logging, metrics collections, and distributed tracing.
• Manage incidents and problems as level two and level three support.

Ideally You Should Possess The Following

• Matric/Grade 12 is essential.
• 3-year degree/diploma Bachelor’s Degree or diploma in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or other related field is essential.
• Cloud Development certification (eg. AWS Certified Developer) would be ideal.
• 3- 5 years of relevant experience in programming and systems analysis applying agile frameworks.
• Experience working with agile methodologies, such as SAFe, Scrum, Kanban, XP, LSD, and FDD.
• Strong knowledge of software architecture principles.
• Experience working in Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment environments preferred.
• Experience and knowledge of Big Data and Analytics technologies preferred.
• Experience working in cloud-native (private cloud eg. Openshift and public cloud. Eg AWS, Azure Google Cloud) environments is preferred.
• Competency in UX principles and practices preferred.

Closing date for pplications

• 27 September 2022.