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VAS Products Development Engineer

Safaricom Kenya
Nairobi, Kenya
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Posted:Sep 23 By:Hiring Kenya

Company Details
Name:Safaricom Kenya
Industry: Information Technology and Services
Website: https://www.safaricom.co.ke/
Description: Safaricom is the leading provider of converged communication solutions in Kenya. In addition to providing a broad range of first-class products and services for Telephony, Broadband Internet and Financial services, Safaricom seeks to uplift the welfare of Kenyans through value-added services and support for community projects. With over 29 Million subscribers and an estimated market share of 67%, the Company has the widest modern mobile network coverage in Kenya and prides in its experienced shareholders, attractive tariffs, a nationwide network of effective dealers, high caliber staff and management enabling it to maintain its position as the region’s mobile market leader.
Job Description

Job Responsibilities

 

Health and Safety; Uphold the company code of conduct, policies and procedures, ensuring integrity and accountability in every aspect of your work and adhere to safety, health, and wellbeing policies, guidelines and procedures in all actions and decisions.

 

Development, configuration and integration of all VAS solutions/systems in line with the Digital IT strategy execution plan. 

 

Actively participate in defining strategy, roadmaps and architecture design for the VAS products.

 

Embrace the new ways of working in VAS domain with the goal of ensuring 50% of VAS projects are delivered through agile methodology.

 

Timely delivery of projects assigned with the goal of ensuring high quality standards are met and solutions are operationally viable. Responsible for ensuring First Time Right delivery of all solutions developed.

 

Enhance processes and DevOps to improve delivery and increase efficiency by focusing on continuous improvement.

 

Accurately document products & services developed & delivered ensuring they follow DevOps Cycle.

 

Embrace a DevOps culture by ensuring all developed products and Services are gracefully handed to operations for support.

 

Develop and continuously update a knowledge base of best practice for VAS products and Service development.

 

Collaborate with both Technical and Business teams to ensure seamless deployment of products.

 

Qualifications

 

Must have technical / professional qualifications: 

 

BSc. Degree in Telecommunication Engineering/Electrical & Electronics engineering/Computer Science/IT.

 

2 years’ experience in a busy telecommunication/ IT environment or Software Engineering with good knowledge in development for VAS solutions including Messaging, Voice, Video & IOT.

 

Software Engineering methodologies including Agile-oriented development. 

 

Proficiency in networking protocols – TCP/IP, DNS and load balancing.

 

Working knowledge in Unix systems and Databases – Oracle, MySQL.

 

Working knowledge of security encryption solutions – SSL, firewalls, VPN, IPsec

 

Strong experience in programming/scripting language(s) – Python, Perl , Shell  or equivalent.

 

3rd Party RESTful API integration, PHP, MySQL, SQL server, web service working knowledge preferred

 

 

 

Education: Degree, Diploma
Employment Type: Full Time
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