Description

About Jumia
Jumia is a leading e-commerce platform in Africa. It is built around a marketplace, Jumia Logistics, and JumiaPay. The marketplace helps millions of consumers and sellers to connect and transact. Jumia Logistics enables the delivery of millions of packages through our network of local partners. JumiaPay facilitates the payments of online transactions for Jumia's ecosystem. With over 1 billion people and 500 million internet users in Africa, Jumia believes that e-commerce is making people's lives easier by helping them shop and pay for millions of products at the best prices wherever they live. E-commerce is also creating new opportunities for SMEs to grow, and job opportunities for a new generation to thrive.
With over 5,000 employees in more than 10 countries in Africa, Jumia is led by top talented leaders offering a great mix of local and international talents and is backed by very high-profile shareholders. Jumia is committed to creating sustainable impact in Africa. Jumia offers unique opportunities in a vibrant and booming environment, creating new jobs, new skills, and empowering a new generation.

Jumia in Porto
Jumia Porto Tech Center boasts over 16 different nationalities. We have around 350 employees from several business areas, from IT, to Finance, to HR. In IT we have 304 people, so as you can see we are a major tech company, and as a Tech company, we share an innovative spirit. At Jumia PTC you will work under the most updated technologies and work methodologies. We are great fans of Agile philosophy and we aim to keep things simple but smart. Also, for Jumia, technology relates with improvement for our world. We see technology as something we need to put purpose into. Our mission is to leverage technology to improve everyday life in Africa and we do it  by delivering convenient and affordable online services to consumers, helping them fulfill basic everyday needs. And while we’re present in Africa, we get to take African economy online, helping small and large businesses grow and reach new consumers. This is what drives our day to day decisions. :)
We are looking for great people to join our amazing teams and celebrate our achievements. At Jumia we work hard, but we do Tech With Purpose!

Site Reliability Engineer

In the course of developing our applications, we always want to have the right infrastructure that guarantees the security of our product. Therefore, to hire qualified professionals, from junior to senior level,  to help us build a scalable and reliable product is always a priority.

Main Responsibilities:

• Be part of an agile team of DevOps and Site Reliability Engineers working directly with Sysadmins, using state-of-art tech technologies to build and monitor systems, applications, and services
• Work with our development team to build Continuous Integration & Delivery pipeline improving the fill delivery pipeline to get a faster time to market, a lower failure rate of new releases and shorten the lead time between fixes
• Develop tools to automate: product build and delivery, maintenance & operations tasks, quality standards testing
• Support and influence our product development teams to use the Continuous Delivery infrastructure and DevOps Methodology
• Work with Product Development and Infrastructure Systems to design and implement solutions and resolve issues
• Help build reliable, high-performance, auto-scaled and fault-tolerant software throw standards as well as testing, load testing and stress testing

Requirements:

• Must have experience/knowledge in Linux environments
• Experience/Knowledge with configuration management tools
• Monitor tools
• Shell and Python scripting
• Skilled with tools such as Jenkins
• Knowledge of DevOps Methodology
• Experience/Knowledge with CI/CD
• Experience with or interest in virtual/containers environments (e.g. Docker)
• Fluent in English

Apply at: https://africainternetgroup.peoplehr.net/Pages/JobBoard/Opening.aspx?v=4b58de28-b463-4e1d-8231-fa4a9b08719b