Vacancies Available at BBD

What we’re looking for in our bursars

• Are you a passionate student who is currently or will be enrolled in a BSc / BEng / BCom / BIS degree at a recognised South African University?
• Does the world of software development tickle your fancy?
• Are you looking to major in Computer Science, Computer & Software Engineering, Information Technology, Game Design or Informatics at Bachelors / Honours / Masters / Doctorate level?

If this is you, then our Bursary & Beyond Programme is for you!

• As a BBD bursar, you need to meet the following basic requirements:
• Be a South African citizen
• Currently studying or preparing to study towards a degree in IT at a recognised South African University
• Have a minimum overall academic average of 70% (Matric) or 65% (Tertiary)
• Have a passion for creating and building software and ideally have some cool stuff ready to show us

When applying, don’t forget to include:

• Your updated CV
• A copy of your ID
• A copy of your matric certificate
• University acceptance letter
• A copy of your latest academic transcripts
• A link to your personal coding projects on GitHub or similar (if you have)

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The role

BBD is looking for SREs to assist in the delivery of software solutions to various clients.

This includes:

• Focussing mainly on delivering and maintaining production-grade systems which adhere to the pillars of SRE
• Ability to maintain a calm temperament in the face of potential incidents as well as good interpersonal skills when communicating with clients and other team members
• Workng in an Agile team follow and interacting closely to guide and assist engineering teams as they deliver business functionality
• Driving highly available and resilient architecture decisions, then implementing them with your team
• Mentoring and advising junior SREs as they grow in the field

Requirements:

• 3+ years of experience as a DevOps or site reliability engineer
• 2+ years of experience as a software engineer with experience in popular languages such as Java / JavaScript / Golang / Python
• An understanding of distributed systems, service architectures, cloud native systems, the problems they attempt to solve as well as the related trade-offs to contribute to feature and service design
• Familiar with the implementation of monitoring and observability solutions (logging, metrics, and distributed tracing)
• Public cloud experience (AWS / Azure / GCP), certification preferable
• Local Infrastructure experience (virtualisation, *NIX systems)
• Knowledge of important networking concepts (HTTP and REST, SSL / TLS, SSH, etc)
• Container experience
• CNCF tools experience such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience with implementing, maintaining and troubleshooting service mesh solutions, such as Istio
• Proven experience with production systems and dealing with production issues
• Out of the box thinking to solve infrastructure and operational problems

Expert knowledge of:

• Configuration management tools and Infrastructure-as-Code tooling and practices
• Systems monitoring, alerting and analytics (NewRelic, Graphite, ELK, EFK, Nagios, Ganglia, Grafana, Prometheus, etc.)
• Implementing SLIs and maintaining SLOs / SLAs
• Incident management, on-call responsibilities, and post-mortems
• Production readiness reviews of microservice workloads
• Toil automation using one of the aforementioned programming languages
• Intersystem integration mechanisms (REST APIs, SSH file delivery, site-to-site VPNs)

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As a BBD grad, you need to meet the following requirements:

• Be immersed in, and have engaged with, technology / coding over and above your formal education
• Be a newly qualified graduate at a recognised university or hold a certification from a recognised learning programme
• Have a high academic average
• Be passionate about building software and creatively solving issues and bugs

When applying, don’t forget to include:

• Your updated CV
• A copy of your ID
• A copy of your latest transcripts, results, or Matric certificate
• A link to personal code projects on GitHub or similar (if you have)

Application process:

• Upload CV onto the BBD careers portal
• If the profile meets our criteria, instructions to a software engineering technical challenge will be sent to you. The link is valid for 14 days
• Once completed, the test will be reviewed through a marking process
• If successful, a virtual interview will be set up
• If successful after the interview, an offer will be made  

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This includes:

• Leveraging expert knowledge across a broad variety of topics
• Ability to pick up unfamiliar tasks and learn as they go
• Working in teams following an Agile approach and interact closely to guide and assist engineering teams as they deliver business functionality
• Building complex platforms, and then making these platforms simple for engineering teams to consume through platform-level abstractions
• Mentoring and advising junior platform engineers as they grow in the field

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in a platform engineering capacity
• 4+ years of experience as a software engineer with experience in popular languages such as Java / JavaScript / Golang / Python
• 4+ years of experience in public cloud (AWS / Azure / GCP)
• 4+ years of experience with containerisation and container platforms
• Experience with Kubernetes GitOps practices, and using tools such as ArgoCD / Flux and Helm / Kustomize
• Experience with the implementation of monitoring and observability solutions (logging, metrics, and distributed tracing) using tools such as Loki, CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, and Xray
• Familiar with DevOps practices and CI/CD tools (AWS DevOps Tools, Jenkins, GitHub actions, etc.)
• Proven experience building complex, production-grade platforms and making these available for self-service consumption by engineering teams
• Must be based in South Africa, Preferably Johannesburg or Cape Town

Expert knowledge of:

• Infrastructure as Code tooling (Terraform / CDK / Pulumi / Crossplane) and practices
• Container orchestration principles and Kubernetes, CKA certification preferable
• Public cloud providers (AWS / Azure / GCP) and best practices (Well Architected Frameworks), certification preferable
• Distributed systems, service architectures, cloud native systems, the problems they attempt to solve as well as the related trade-offs to contribute to feature and service design
• Building of platform APIs, automation, system-level tooling and/ or internal developer platforms