Software Engineer (Platform & DevOps) - Takealot

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

We are a young, dynamic, hyper growth company looking for smart, creative, hard-working people with integrity to join us. We offer a market related, Total Remuneration Package which allows full flexibility according to your needs, a great work environment and a promise that you won’t be bored as long as you are prepared for a challenge and want to build something great.

The position reports to the Engineering Team Lead (DevOps)

Your responsibilities will include the following:

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

Attributes required:

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

Qualifications and experience:

• Computer science degree
• At least 2 years of professional experience
• An understanding of computer science fundamentals, including linux and operating systems, networking
• Solid grasp of development fundamentals such as data structures and algorithms
• Can write code (we use Python)
• Have experience with Google Cloud, or another cloud provider (architecture, operations)
• Have experience managing Kubernetes Clusters (certificates, users, kubeadm, etc.)
• 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)
• Has experience with Linux administration (Processes, Networking, Disks, Security)
• Has experience with one configuration management system (Chef, Puppet, Ansible)
• Has experience managing production systems

The Environment:

• takealot.com employees are entrepreneurial and dynamic, smart, customer-centric, fun and have the shared ambition of takealot.com being the leading e-commerce company in Africa.
• We have fun, work hard, take ownership, work in teams to create solutions and are always open to direct feedback/new ideas on where we can improve.
• We are short on ego and high on output.
• We are doers and not only thinkers, its all in the execution after all.
• We love what we do and what we are creating.

We seek to Employ an Extra Ordinary Mind who:

• is forthright but respectful
• is an expert at doing, who can not only design but also execute
• is analytical, able to use data to make decisions
• is competitive, self-directed and strive to be the BEST (GREAT requires a lot of work and does not only happen during business hours
• is passionate about the potential of e-commerce and delivering a world-class customer experience
• is entrepreneurial, thrives under change and accepts it is a constant and always looks for solutions to do something better and faster
• is able to think about problems from a business perspective using technical and product input
• is curious and challenge the status quo
• is innovative and enjoys iteration
• is collaborative
• will be at the cutting edge of developing new concepts for takealot.com.
• thinks like an owner of the business.
• is SMART, has INTEGRITY and is HARDWORKING

If you meet the above you are an Extraordinary Mind so come and join us!