Specialist Developer Engineer

Safaricom Telecommunications Ethiopia Plc is a company supporting Ethiopia’s digital transformation. As a member of the Vodacom family, we have a wealth of experience connecting over 334 million people globally and over 180 million people in Africa across our network. We look forward to partnering with Ethiopians as we build a new network in Ethiopia.

We are setting the groundwork in readiness for the launch of our services next year and are looking to work with purpose-led teams that put the community at the heart of service.

Safaricom Ethiopia is offering a wide range of careers, whether you’re looking to join our technology, commercial or corporate teams. If you would like a challenge and the promise of a digital future for the people of Ethiopia, we are looking for you.

We are pleased to announce the vacancy for a Specialist Developer Engineer within the Information and Technology function in Safaricom Telecommunication Ethiopia PLC. In keeping with our current business needs, we are looking for a person who meets the criteria indicated below. 

Role DESCRIPTION

Reporting to Senior Specialist - Enterprise Integration, the position holder will be responsible for working with application developers to automate and accelerate the testing, release, and deployment of applications into a runtime environment quickly and reliably. The DevOps Engineer will have a background in development, operations, and full-stack implementations. The DevOps engineer acts as a fulcrum between development and operational teams, and basically forms the foundation of the entire DevOps environment.

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES

• Accountable for end-to-end micro-services and API strategy and roadmap with delivery as the main outcome.
• Apply architecture and design principles consistently and holistically to enable target end-to-end usage scenarios
• Strong focus on DevSecOps uses cases and workflows.
• Developing and maintaining long-term business domain knowledge
• Partner with architecture group to deliver solution blueprint and other UML-based design documentation

Job Requirements

• The ideal candidate will have a total of 3+ years of experience in software development
• At least 1 year of experience as a DevOps engineer
• 2+ years of experience in microservices development using Java, JEE, spring, spring MVC, spring boot, MAVEN, and spring cloud.
• Experience working in cloud-native environments
• Familiar with Microservices design
• Experience developing solutions using agile, DevOps, testing, and CI/CD automation tools such as Jenkins, JMeter, Git, Stash, Sonar Qube, etc.
• Knowledge of different Authentication/Authorization mechanisms e.g., Basic, OAuth, JWT, Kerberos, etc.
• Knowledge of Cloud technologies and different services e.g., AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Open Shift, TLS/SSL concepts and their working mechanism.
• Process Management, Memory Management, Performance management, application Scaling, etc.
• Good knowledge of databases (Postgress/ Oracle /SQL Server, Mongo DB) and proficiency in writing / analyzing SQL queries.
• Excellent expertise in Java 8, Multithreading, Microservices, Spring Core, and Spring JPA.
• Understanding of the Design Patterns, Architectural Blueprints, UML, and Application Design
• Work in shifts
• Understanding of ITIL processes.

How to Apply

If you feel that you are up to the challenge and possess the necessary qualification and experience, kindly proceed to update your candidate profile here

Remember to attach your resume.