Internet of Things (IOT) Devops Engineer at Safaricom Kenya

Brief Description

• Reporting to the Chapter Lead IOT Devops, the position holder will be responsible for development, integration, maintenance, and optimization of IOT applications while supporting evolution of the existing services in production.  Safaricom IOT solutions include Smart Metering (Water & Power), Telematics, Logistics, Cold Chain Management, SIM Management and several bespoke solutions. 
• The role includes effective and secure management of IOT telemetry data integrating with 3rd party systems and deriving analytical insights using ML/ AI algorithms for business and operational use. Other activities include performance management, fault management, liaison and support of internal and external IOT stakeholders. 

Responsibilities

• Build IoT applications for enterprise use cases compliant to Digital IT standards, frameworks and technologies.
• Develop, publish and maintain IoT Apps to stores, handling application provisioning and security.
• Create and Integrate IOT Libraries and APIs to third party IoT Core Applications.
• Create and maintain databases containing IoT Sensor data and processing it further for consumption via APIs.
• Optimize, dimension application specifications based on IoT apps capacity projections.
• Collaborating with other IOT Engineers and stakeholders to produce application designs, specifications, perform peer code reviews ensuring that requisite technical documentation and training is provided for reference.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering/IT, Engineering, or related field.
• 5+ years of work experience in Software Programming including mobile development, experience in Android’s Kotlin, IOS’s Swift frameworks and Flutter preferred.
• Proficiency in server side/Scripting languages such as C#, PHP, C/C++, Java, Python and technologies such as XML, SOAP, JSON and YAML.
• Proficiency with fundamental front-end languages such as HTML, CSS  and Frameworks such as React.
• Experience in API development and Integrating to IOT Platforms via APIs and libraries.
• Working Knowledge of both Structured and Unstructured databases such as MYSQL, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MongoDB and streaming technologies including REDIS.
• Proficient in Linux administration.
• Good understanding of IoT, IoT Edge computing, IoT protocols, device engineering and Telco environment.