
Website Takealot
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:
- Operations for Kafka, Kubernetes, Nginx, Memcache, and more
- Building and deploying systems for metrics, monitoring, and logging
- Developing automation so we can focus on the hard problems
- Hardening servers, and building security into the platform
- Developing glue code to extend or integrate systems
Job Requirements:
- Is passionate about technology- keeping up to date with the industry
- Understand networking deeply (tcp/ip, calico/weave, vlans, tcpdump, etc.)
- Understand Linux deeply (kernel tuning, proc filesystem, cgroups, os scheduling, etc.)
- Has a reasonable understanding of Networking (TCP, UDP, IP)
Qualification & Experience:
- Have experience with Google Cloud, or another cloud provider (architecture, operations)
- Have experience managing Kubernetes Clusters (certificates, users, kubeadm, etc.)
- Computer science degree or equivalent experience
- Has experience managing production systems
- 3-5 years of professional experience
- Has experience with one configuration management system (Chef, Puppet, Ansible)
- Has experience with Linux administration (Processes, Networking, Disks, Security)
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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