IoT Solutions Development Engineer at Safaricom Kenya

Job Description

Reporting to the Chapter Lead IOT Devops, the position holder will be responsible for development, integration, maintenance, and optimization of IOT applications while supporting evolution of the existing services in production. Safaricom IOT solutions include Smart Metering (Water & Power), Telematics, Logistics, Cold Chain Management, SIM Management and several bespoke solutions. 

The role includes effective and secure management of IOT telemetry data integrating with 3rd party systems and deriving analytical insights using ML/ AI algorithms for business and operational use. Other activities include performance management, fault management, liaison and support of internal and external IOT stakeholders. 

Responsibilities

• Build IoT applications for enterprise use cases compliant to IT standards and frameworks and technologies. 
• Develop, publish and maintain APIs, handling application provisioning and security.
• Create and Integrate IOT Libraries and APIs to third party IoT Core Applications. 
• Optimize, dimension application specifications based on IoT apps capacity projections.
• Create and maintain databases containing IoT Sensor data and processing it further for consumption via APIs.
• Build IoT Data Models for enterprise use cases, testing and maintaing IoT data pipelines that clean, transform, and aggregate data from disparate sources aligning them to the business needs. 
• Collaborating with other IOT Engineers and stakeholders to produce application designs, specifications, perform peer code reviews ensuring that requisite technical documentation and training is provided for reference.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering/IT, Engineering, or related field.
• 5+ years of work experience in Software Development including Core Backend Development; experience in Spring Boot, .NET, Python Flask/Django, Laravel/Yii Frameworks.
• Proficiency in server side/Scripting languages such as C#, PHP, C/C++, Java, Python and technologies such as XML, SOAP, JSON, YAML and CI/CD tools.
• Experience in API development and Integrating to IOT Platforms via APIs and libraries.
• Performing maintenance and testing to ensure software functionality and quality.
• Working Knowledge of both Structured and Unstructured databases such as MYSQL, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MongoDB and streaming technologies including REDIS.
• Proficient in Linux administration.
• Good understanding of IoT, IoT Edge computing, IoT protocols, device engineering and Telco environment.