Brief Description
Reporting to the DIT Operations Manager, the position holder will be responsible for availability, latency, performance, efficiency, change management, monitoring, emergency response, security and capacity planning.
Key Responsibilities
Building software to help operations and support teams. This entails proactively building and implementing services, including end to ed monitoring, scripting and automation, modern tooling and maintenance software
Providing software-related operations support, including managing level two and level three incident and problem management
Creating prototypes, designing and building modules and solutions in an iterative agile cycle, develop, maintain, and optimize the business outcome
Estimating 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
Performing 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
Documenting “tribal” knowledge and constant upkeep of the playbooks and runbooks to ensure teams get the information they need right when they need it.
Managing technical debt as part of daily activities
Developing and executing automation scripts and maintenance jobs
Conducting peer reviews and maintaining coding standards
Managing incidents as level two and level three support
Managing problems as level two and level three support
Estimating user and technical stories to help inform and prioritize backlog
Designing modules according to user stories, UX/UI designs, and technical stories
Developing solutions according to module designs and deploy using delivery pipeline
Developing and execute unit and integration tests; support testing against user and technical story acceptance tests
Reviewing design and architecture to guarantee service availability, performance, and resilience
Qualifications
Master’s or bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or another related field
Three to five years of work experience in programming and /or systems analysis applying agile frameworks
Experience working with agile methodologies, such as Scrum, Kanban, XP, LSD, and FDD
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
Professional experience and knowledge of the Telecommunications industry preferred
Certified Scrum Developer (CSD) preferred
Competency in UX/UI principles and practices preferred
Interested and qualified candidates should make their applications through Safaricom's portal Safaricom Careers
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