Jobs at Takealot – Senior DevOps Engineer

Job Description:

Takealot.com, South Africa’s leading online retailer, is looking for a highly talented Software Engineer (Platform & DevOps) to join our team in Cape Town.

Job Responsibilities:

• Developing automation so we can focus on the hard problems
• Hardening servers, and building security into the platform
• Terraform to manage Cloud Infrastructure, Chef to manage virtual servers
• Building and deploying systems for metrics, monitoring, and logging
• Developing glue code to extend or integrate systems
• Operations for Kafka, Kubernetes, Nginx, Memcache, and more

Job Requirements:

• Is a team player
• Always learning
• Possesses the ability to work under pressure
• Shows solid reasoning and decision making
• Excellent communication skills
• Is passionate about technology- keeping up to date with the industry

Qualification & Experience:

• Have experience managing Kubernetes Clusters (certificates, users, kubeadm, etc.)
• Computer science degree or equivalent experience
• Have experience with Google Cloud, or another cloud provider (architecture, operations)
• Has experience managing production systems
• 3-5 years of professional experience
• Has experience with one configuration management system (Chef, Puppet, Ansible)

Job Details:

Company: Takealot

Vacancy Type: Full Time

Job Functions: Retail

Job Location: Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Application Deadline: N/A

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