Junior Application Developer – Event Streaming & DevOps

About the role

As a Junior Application Developer you will join the EVS Support‑DevOps team to design, develop and maintain event‑driven software solutions for a Vodacom client. You will work on data‑streaming platforms and cloud‑native workloads, ensuring high availability, performance and scalability.

Key responsibilities

• Manage and support data‑streaming platforms such as Apache Kafka, Apache NiFi, RabbitMQ and RTI.
• Monitor, troubleshoot and optimise event‑driven workflows, including topic management, consumer‑group tuning and schema validation.
• Deploy, configure and maintain containerised applications on Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes clusters.
• Automate operational processes using Bash scripting and CI/CD tools.
• Maintain Linux servers that host streaming infrastructure and provide remote access support via mRemote, PuTTY and FileZilla.
• Implement and maintain monitoring dashboards with Grafana and Prometheus, and respond to incidents promptly.

Required profile

• Junior level (Level 1) with a degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field.
• Strong analytical mindset and ability to work collaboratively in cross‑functional teams.
• Interest in event‑driven architectures and cloud‑native technologies.

Required skills

• Apache Kafka
• Apache NiFi
• RabbitMQ
• RTI
• Red Hat OpenShift
• Kubernetes
• Bash scripting
• CI/CD tooling
• Linux server administration
• Grafana
• Prometheus
• Remote access tools (mRemote, PuTTY, FileZilla)