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