DevOps Full Stack Engineer at Safaricom Kenya

Reporting to the Tech Lead – Service Management Department the position holder will be responsible for driving end to end automation across Service Management. The position holder will be responsible for automation of business processes, systems integrations, customization of existing systems, setting up of test platforms and creation and customization of reports.

Detailed Description

• To build software to help operations and support teams;
• To provide software-related operations support;
• To estimate user and technical stories, designing and developing code, writing and executing unit and integration tests, and supporting testing of deliverables against user and technical story acceptance tests;
• To perform peer reviews, collaborating with architects and other developers to produce “just enough” design, and ensuring that enough technical documentation and training is provided for reference and operational support;
• To manage technical debt as part of daily activities;
• To develop and execute automation scripts and maintenance jobs;
• To design modules according to user stories, UX/UI designs, and technical stories;
• To develop and execute unit and integration tests; support testing against user and technical story acceptance tests;

Job Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering or any other related field;
• Extensive experience working with agile methodologies, such as Scrum and Kanban;
• 3+ years of work experience in programming and /or systems analysis applying agile frameworks;
• Experience working with multiple programming and markup languages, such as Android, IOS, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Java, Ruby, SQL, XML, JSON, YAML, and Python, and paradigms such as object-oriented-, even-driven-, procedural-, functional-, and declarative programming;
• Strong knowledge of software architecture principles;
• Experience working in cloud-native environments;
• Certified Scrum Developer (CSD) preferred;
• Competency in UX/UI principles and practices preferred;

Closing: 22 July 2022