Senior Software Release Engineer at Telkom

The Release Engineering Team (RET) is a division of Takealot’s Engineering team focused on developing tools, solutions and platform which would enable developers to build and deploy software in a safe, secure and continuous manner, whilst maintaining quality. They are a dedicated team of engineers who are responsible for CI/CD solutions, test automation frameworks, cloud & on-prem environments and tools & processes related to build and deployment. This team is also responsible for maintaining some of our core production services, which manage some of our critical functions like monitoring, alerting etc.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it:

• Architect and implement CI/CD processes and solutions to drive continuous deployments with velocity
• Maintain and support continuous delivery tools and processes.
• Provision, deploy, and operate systems managed by the team
• Drive tooling, culture, and automation to reduce friction for the Engineering team
• Design, develop and maintain internal libraries, tooling and systems
• Work across multiple technologies such as Kubernetes, Docker and Helm.
• Work closely with DevOps, SRE, QA, Security, Data Engineering and Development teams, to support and maintain Takealot’s software ecosystem.
• Be on-call for the systems managed by release engineering
• Provide on-call production support for the systems and services managed by RET.
• Implementing innovative CI/CD solutions and showcase its business value to the senior management and the wider Engineering audience.

The skills we need:

• Is passionate about technology, keeping up to date with the industry, always learning
• Is a team player, an active listener, and is able to communicate well
• Is solutions oriented, and can break down complex problems
• Shows solid reasoning and decision making

Qualifications & Experience:

• Has either a degree in computer science, or equivalent industry experience
• At least 5 years of professional experience in the software engineering domain.
• Must have hands-on experience with minimum one build and deploy systems such as Gitlab, Jenkins, Spinnaker, etc.
• Must have strong experience with container orchestration tools like Kubernetes (running an application, using helm, etc.)
• Hand-on experience on Linux, Bash and/or Networking.
• Can write code (we use Python mostly, also some GroovyLang)
• Must have hands-on experience with installing and configuring third-party tools like Spinnaker, JenkinsX etc. on cloud environments like GCP.
• Strong knowledge on containerization and container orchestration tools.
• Experience with defining a CI/CD strategy and framework for an organization.

Let’s talk about life @ Takealot Group

• The power is in your hands: We offer a market-related, Total Remuneration Package which allows full flexibility according to your needs. Go on, be the master of your own destiny.
• No doors: We aren’t fans of stuffy offices or siloed work environments. See someone you like? High five, collab and make something great.
• Remote working: Love water cooler chats and working from home? Takealot.com offers a hybrid working model for the best of both worlds.
• Mentorship programme: We aren’t kidding when we say the people with the best people win. Now’s your chance to be one of the best, by learning from the best.
• Naspers Tech Community & Online Learning: Share ideas and grow with global industry leaders who are all just a Slack message away. Love to learn? Up-skill with free access to courses on MyAcademy, Udacity, Coursera and more.
• Good times: Get to know the other extraordinary minds at takealot.com during regular social events and out-of-office activities (think hikes, think mini golf, think good times).
• Staff discount. Millions of products across 28 departments. What more could you ask for?
• Birthday leave: Cake Day all the way. Enjoy your day off - you deserve it.
• Right tools, right job: Mac or Windows, two monitors or one. Whatever your preference, you’ll work on the latest tech, off the latest tech.
• Help when you need it most: Confidential counselling, legal support and financial guidance, for free, anytime, anywhere.
• Tech stack (for days): ReactJS, Python, Scala, Kotlin, Swift, Google Cloud, Kafka, Redis, Kubernetes and all things machine learning. If you build it, they will come.
• Free parking: No more 5km fun runs to your desk (unless you want to).