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By:Hiring Kenya
Company Details
Industry:
Information Technology and Services
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
Responsibilities
- Proactively building and implementing monitoring services, including end to end monitoring, scripting and automation, modern tooling and maintenance software.
- Use of AI and Machine learning to perform log analysis and create predictive models that will assist in identifying potential failures.
- Developing and executing automation scripts and maintenance jobs.
- Documentation and closure of monitoring gaps under the mind the gap initiative.
- Onboarding DIT systems to the service monitoring tools (APMs such as ELK, Dynatrace etc.)
- Write and deploy custom scripts in picking specific monitoring metrics.
- Come up with Log ingestion pipelines and parsing of the same.
- Support all Digital squads to ensure new products are monitored.
- Support in Zero touch Operations initiatives.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in either Computer Science or Information Technology, Electrical and communication engineering or Business Information Systems or in a relevant field in telecommunication.
- At least 2 years’ experience in a busy telco or IT setup.
- Domain knowledge in at least 3 of the following areas, Databases, Containerization, VAS, Integration, Virtualization,
- Cloud (AWS or Azure), Orchestration (Kubernetes), App development (Android / IOS)
- Good understanding of the micro service architecture & appreciation of the
- traditional/classic SOA
- Technical Knowledge of working on Dev-Ops
- Being able to implement strict change management policy
- Good understanding of back-end programming such us Python, Java - Springboot.
- Formulate SLAs for each level of incident and therefore implement a service management approach for all types of services rendered.
- Be well versed with modern monitoring tools and systems with experience in APMs such
- as ELK, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, New Relic, Splunk etc.
- Well versed with SRE concepts with respect to providing stable services to customers and adhering to availability KPIs
Salary: Discuss During Interview
Education: Diploma
Employment Type: Full Time