Software Engineer

1 month ago

Cape Town, South Africa takealot.com Full time

, South Africa’s leading online retailer, is looking for highly talented Senior and Intermediate DevOps Engineers to join our team. 

We are a young, dynamic, hyper-growth company looking for smart, creative, hard-working people with integrity to join us. We offer a market-related, Total Remuneration Package which allows full flexibility according to your needs, a great work environment, and a promise that you won’t be bored as long as you are prepared for a challenge and want to build something great.

Think you’ve been challenged before? Think again

Scale: 4 million happy shoppers shop online on takealot.com. 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 fast-growing Takealot Group: takealot.com, Superbalist.com and Mr D. We like to promote from within: Here’s your chance.

Who’s 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:

Bachelor’s Degree or Advanced Diploma in Information Systems, Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering and a minimum of 3 years 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 experience in a software/technology environment. For a senior role: 5 to 10 years of relevant work experience For an intermediate role: 3 to 5 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

Let’s talk about life @ Takealot Group

The power is in your hands : We offer a market-related, Total Remuneration Package which allows full flexibility according to your needs. Go on, be the master of your own destiny. No doors : We aren’t 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.com offers a hybrid working model for the best of both worlds. Mentorship programme : We aren’t kidding when we say the people with the best people win. Now’s 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? Up-skill with free access to courses on MyAcademy, Udacity, Coursera and more. Good times : Get to know the other extraordinary minds at takealot.com during regular social events and out-of-office 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, you’ll 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). 

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