Software Engineer (Platform & DevOps) wanted: APPLY NOW

Johannesburg, Gauteng
Permanent

A renowned and leading ecommerce retailer in South Africa is looking for a Software Engineer (Platform & DevOps) to join their team on a full time permanent basis for their offices in either Cape Town or Stellenbosch or Johannesburg.

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.

They offer some of the best salaries in the industry plus work from home, half day and flexi hours and employee education assist. Apart from that they also have free coffee bars, sushi bars, gourmet restaurants, resting pods, open bar on Thursday and Fridays with free drinks and major employee discounts for any online products. They also offer free online courses, birthday leave, free parking and DSTV discount. The total package offers full flexibility according to your needs, a great work environment and promise that one will not be bored as long as you are prepared for a challenge and want to build a great career with them. All necessary training and mentoring will be provided.

They really have an incredible trendy working environment, best way to describe their offices environment is exactly like Google and this is the reason why they are South Africa’s leading ecommerce business.

They are a young, dynamic company growing at a phenomenal rate and looking for smart, creative, hard-working people with integrity to join their team. They are one of the largest and most innovative ecommerce retailers on the African continent.

Apart from their offices in CBD, Cape Town, Stellenbosch and Johannesburg, they also have expanding warehouses in Johannesburg and Cape Town, while expanding department selection to over 21 departments across Electronics, Lifestyle, Media & Gaming and Fashion.
They have over 1,200 employees and have an excellent employee retention rate, because they value their employees.

Environment:
Our employees are entrepreneurial & dynamic, smart, customer-centric, fun & share the ambition of the company being the leading e-commerce company in Africa.
They have fun, work hard, take ownership, work in teams to create solutions, & are always open to direct feedback / new ideas on where they can improve.
They are short on ego and high on output.
They are doers and not only thinkers; it’s all in the execution after all.
They love what they do & what they are creating.

You need to be strong in both root cause analysis and driving to action – in other words; you need to be a thinker and a doer. You need to be passionate about the potential of e-commerce and delivering a world-class customer experience. And, because we operate in a fast-growing, quick-moving environment, we’re looking for someone who is entrepreneurial, thrives under change, and always looks for solutions to do something better and faster. You will be at the cutting edge of developing new concepts for the business. In short, we need you to think like an owner of the business.

The position reports to the Platform Team Lead

Requirements:
3 year computer science degree or relevant qualification or equivalent experience
At least 2 years of professional experience in a similar position
An understanding of computer science fundamentals, including Linux and Operating Systems, Networking
Solid grasp of development fundamentals such as Data Structures and Algorithms

Nice to have:
Linux experience (Ubuntu/Debian)
Shell scripting
Python, Ruby, or a similar language
Understanding of Linux and OS Fundamentals (Processes, Signals, Sysctl)
General debugging tools on Linux (Tcpdump, Vmstat, Strace)
System administration (Users, Packages, Ntp, Smtp)
Network theory and administration (Linux)
Configuration management (Chef, Puppet)
Common web stack applications (Nginx, Apache, Varnish, Haproxy, Memcache)
Database operations, query optimization, backup strategy
Hardware installation and configuration (Raid, Filesystems, Lvm)
Metrics, monitoring (Nagios, Zabbix, Sensu, Graphite)
Security (Iptables, Selinux, Ssh)
Cloud infrastructure (AWS, Google, Azure)
Virtualization technologies (Xen, KVM)
Distributed systems
Capacity planning
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