Our client, a leader in the media industry, is looking for Senior Cloud Data Engineer to join their dynamic and fast-paced team, where technology, content, and innovation shape South Africa’s top digital, print, and ecommerce platforms.
The client’s team of engineers, data scientists, product managers and UX/UI design specialists develop exceptional digital products for renowned brands. By harnessing cutting-edge technology and a sophisticated tech stack, they deliver world-class solutions. Our vibrant, people-focused culture, commitment to innovation, and strong societal mission are at the heart of everything we do.
What will you do?
- You will be working primarily within the Google Cloud Environment using a variety of the tools that Google offers from Biquery and Dataproc to Kubernetes and AI Hub.
- You should ideally dream in Python and speak SQL.
- You should not be afraid to dive into dirty data and help the team make sense of it.
- We are in the game of taking data and turning it into amazing stories and pretty pictures that helps the decision makers drive the business forward.
What should you have?
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering
- 5+ years development experience working with Python
- Data skills (Traditional SQL and No-SQL)
- Large scale ETL
- High scale Restful Services
- Cloud experience (Google cloud platform preferred)
- Experience with source control (Git)
Beneficial Skills
You will be exposed to these in our environment, so it would be great if you had prior experience, but it’s not a problem if you don’t.
- Scheduling and Orchestration (Airflow/Composer)
- Containerization (Kubernetes, Docker)
- BigQuery
- Elastic search
- Data Warehousing concepts
- Data governance Concepts.
- Apache beam (Cloud Dataflow)
- Apache Spark (Dataproc)
General:
- Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Should you not hear from us after 30 days you may consider your application unsuccessful
- Given the employment equity policy of the client, preference will be given to suitable candidates from the designated groups.
- Please include your current salary and salary expectations.
Desired Skills:
- Big Data
- Cloud Computing
- Data Engineering
- Extract Transform Load (ETL)
- Git
- Kubernetes
- Python