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.