Website Takealot
JOB DESCRIPTION:
Takealot.com, a leading South African online retailer, is looking for a highly talented DataOps Engineering Manager 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!
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Automation of repetitive tasks through scripting or code
- Managing, developing and mentoring a team of engineers responsible for data operations and platform stability and efficiency
- Mentoring and coaching of data best practices within the organization. Driving the adoption of these best practices to ensure data hygiene.
- Architecting and implementing technical solutions to support scale and security initiatives
- Maintenance and hygiene for longevity, attending to upgrades, ensuring backups are happening and healthy, capacity planning and forecasting
- Operational work, ensuring databases are operating smoothly, creating databases, users, tables, schema changes, bulk data changes, etc.
JOB REQUIREMENTS:
- Works well with people, and is passionate about helping people be their best
- Shows solid reasoning and decision making, with the ability to work under pressure
- Is passionate about technology, systems and data
QUALIFICATION & EXPERIENCE:
- Experience mentoring, coaching, and developing others technically
- Experience in Linux administration (Processes, Networking, Disks, Security)
- Computer Science Degree or 5 to 10 years relevant industry experience
- Experience with open source relational database systems (MySQL, PostgreSQL)
JOB DETAILS:
- Company: Takealot
- Vacancy Type: Full Time
- Job Location: Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
- Application Deadline: SEE APPLICATION PAGE
To apply for this job please visit www.takealot.com.