At impact.com our culture is our soul. We are passionate about our people, our technology, and obsessed with customer success. Working together enables us to grow rapidly, win, and serve the largest brands in the world. We use cutting edge technology to solve real-world problems for our clients and continue to pull ahead of the pack as the leading SaaS platform for businesses to automate their partnerships and grow their revenue like never before. We have an entrepreneurial spirit and a culture where ambition and curiosity is rewarded. If you are looking to join a team where your opinion is valued, your contributions are noticed, and enjoy working with fun and talented people from all over the world, then this is the place for you!
impact.com, the worlds leading partnership management platform, is transforming the way businesses manage and optimize all types of partnershipsincluding traditional rewards affiliates, influencers, commerce content publishers, B2B, and more. The companys powerful, purpose-built platform makes it easy for businesses to create, manage, and scale an ecosystem of partnerships with the brands and communities that customers trust to make purchases, get information, and entertain themselves at home, at work, or on the go. To learn more about how impact.coms technology platform and partnerships marketplace is driving revenue growth for global enterprise brands such as Walmart, Uber, Shopify, Lenovo, L'Oral, Fanatics and Levis, visit www.impact.com.
Why this role is exciting:
The main purpose of a DevOps Engineer, is to homogenise development and operations, and to create a collaborative and complementary development culture.
The DevOps Engineer is responsible for working hands-on to create and develop automated, containerized cloud application platforms, and design and implement DevOps processes that use those platforms. To act as a subject matter expert for troubleshooting and resolving complex, multi-tier architecture problems that span a number of different platforms
Responsibilities:
- Be an SME on the tools and technologies used by the squad
- Perform triage functionality through verification and fixing of bugs
- Collaborate with a distributed team to fulfill the department's quarterly objectives
- Automate recurring manual tasks & optimize repetitive processes.
- Develop code both independently and while pair programming
- Perform code reviews
- Research and prototype new technologies
- Support software testing and quality assurance processes to ensure high-quality deliverables
- Respond to alerts, review error messages, and fix bugs in a timely manner
- Ability to assess, debug and resolve technical issues
- Maintain build- and stage stability
- Review business needs, requirements, technical specifications
- Influence system wide architecture
- Mentor and give guidance to less senior staff to grow careers
- Contribute to creative solutions that help make the development process more efficient
- Evolve architecture
- Maintain & improve continuous integration process & work towards continuous delivery.
- Resolve issues blocking engineerings ability to deliver.
- Accelerate development by constantly improving resource provisioning to enable engineers to do their work.
- Research new technologies to enhance SDLC velocity & stability.
- Minimize feedback loop by having optimized continuous integration builds
- Regularly review peer contributions and take part in constructive retrospectives to increase efficiency
- Actively contribute to and maintain technical documentation
- Follow technology trends and incorporate new promising technology as required to keep with the times
- Elevate ownership of application stability
- Keeps technically abreast of trends and advancements within area of specialization, incorporating these improvements where applicable
- Increase efficiency and optimal use of organizational resources
- Increase cross-team collaboration and employee satisfaction
- Better and proactive customer service due to increased coherence within the organization
- Perform point releases
- Develop alternative solutions to possible bottlenecks.
Does this sound like you?
- Previous experience as a Software Engineer, DevOps / Automation Engineer
- Automation and Configuration Management
- CI/CD tools, preferably experience in Jenkins administration and writing pipelines
- Experience with Terraform to programmatically provision the required resources
- Experience using building tools
- Programming and/or scripting language competency, with at least one of; Shell, Java, Groovy
- Gradle with Groovy configuration & plugin authoring, or equivalent Maven experience
- Self starter
- Adaptability
- Drive
- Social Skills
- Personal Development
- Initiative
Nice to have:
Affiliate & Partnerships Industry Fundamentals Certification by PXA
Benefits/Perks:
- Casual work environment, including working from home
- Flexible work hours
- Unlimited PTO policy
- Take the time off that you need. We are truly committed to a positive work-life balance, recognising that it is important to be happy and fulfilled in both
- 6 month paternity/maternity leave
- Training & Development
- Learning the advanced partnership automation products
- Medical Aid and Provident Fund
- Group schemes with Discovery & Bonitas for medical aid
- Group scheme with Momentum for provident fund
- Restricted Stock Units
- 3-year vesting schedule pending Board approval
- Internet Allowance
- Fitness club fee reimbursements
Impact is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, colour, ethnicity, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, genetics, sex, pregnancy or childbirth, sexual orientation, gender (including gender identity or non-binary or nonconformity and/or status as a trans individual), age, physical or mental disability, citizenship, marital, parental and/or familial status, past, current or prospective service in the uniformed services, or any characteristic protected under applicable law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.
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