Jobs at Safaricom

Detailed Description

Reporting to the DevSecOps & IT Automation Lead the job holder will work with agile teams structured in tribes and squads to ensure that the squads and other teams within the organization can adopt the DevSecOps culture and practices on their day-to-day work. The job holder will also be responsible for collaborating with the security teams, developers, infrastructure team and other stake holders within the DevSecOps ecosystem.

Responsibilities

• Writes, tests, and documents DevOps Pipelines, Configurations/Infra as Code according to Safaricom Engineering standards and practices.
• Hands-on experience with Linux Servers and AWS
• Understands Microservices concepts, Docker and Basic container orchestration using Kubernetes.
• Able to implement a standard CI/CD Flow using Jenkins or GitLab-CI
• Has shown capability to adopt best coding and practicing standards with regards to the laid down frameworks and standards
• Perform peer reviews with the DevSecOps team.
• Develop and contribute to quality Pipelines, Code and configuration Management
• Writes, tests and documents code as per Safaricom guidelines
• Consistently delivers small improvements that have impact to Safaricom teams and squads
• Takes ownership of small projects or smaller parts of large projects
• Understands DevOps Principles and concepts
• Foundational knowledge of Infrastructure as Code with working knowledge of one Terraform and/or Ansible.

Qualifications

• CICD tools knowledge like Jenkins
• Scripting language skills groovy, go, bash and python
• Knowledge of cloud technologies like AWS and Azure
• Knowledge of monitoring tools like Dynatrace, Splunk and Prometheus
• Knowledge of container, package managers and orchestration tools like – terraform, docker and helm.
• Knowledge on the DevSecOps ecosystem like – the pillars, maturity model, adoption strategies, tools and principles.
• High level of skill in their discipline. Independently leads medium sized (4-8 engineering weeks) project through the entire life cycle from design to development and deployment
• Confident contributor to cross-company engineering efforts or guilds

Last Date to Apply: Feb 23, 2022

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Job Description
 
Key Responsibilities

• Review and provide input on design approach, performance and base functionality. Ensure integration of designs across development team and design, build & test ERP components e.g. interface, conversion and report programs;
• Appropriately monitor interfaces to oracle ERP. Provide training and support on oracle ERP modules and development tools, review & interpret technical manuals for the Oracle ERP system and assist in creating/update Oracle TAR’s;
• Ensures the effectiveness of overall systems performance;
• Design and develop front-end tier(s), middle tier(s), and /or back-end database tier(s) for business applications;
• Participate in the capturing of business applications information needs and mapping of the same to the software and /or database components;
• Perform data modeling to analyze and specify data structures within an application system;
• Support new and existing application development by creating modifications and enhancements for Oracle ERP applications and perform high level system design;
• Conduct business user requirements analysis and specification;
• Specify computer system requirements for the solution of complex business problems and formulates designs for their solutions;
• Perform the necessary technical design and development functionality to ensure that business application systems can be effectively developed and implemented;
• Interact with clients to gather and refine requirements;
• Create test plans, test data sets and perform automated testing to ensure all components of the developed systems meet specifications;
• Work directly with the IT support personnel and HR teams to resolve issues identified and escalated during daily operations;
• Perform root cause analysis for recurring incidents;
• Formalize test plans and implement troubleshooting procedures.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Degree in Computer Science or technical related field;
• Certification in Database systems and RDBMS systems, OCA, OCP or ODI certifications;
• 3 years of work experience in Oracle ERP applications development, which includes system customization and report designs;
• Conversant with OAF development
• 3 years of development experience with Microsoft development tools e.g. Java, VB, Fox Pro, Visual FoxPro;
• 3 years of development experience with low level programming C++, C;
• 3 years of work experience with RDMS preferably MS SQL Server, Oracle, Sybase, and Informix;
• Experience in data warehousing, business analysis, knowledge in Business Systems modeling and data retrieval
• 4GL for programming – Visual Basic/Oracle Application builder;
• Unix user skills;
• Experience in processes and procedures management;
• Communication and interpersonal skills;
• Attention to detail;
• Analytical Skills;
• Leadership skills.
• Knowledge of HR business processes will be an added advantage.

Last Date to Apply: Feb 27, 2022