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Operations Support Engineer

Operations Support Engineer

Vodafone Global EnterpriseJohannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
7 days ago
Job description

Job title : Operations Support Engineer

Job Location : Gauteng, Johannesburg

Deadline : November 06, 2025

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Role Purpose / Business Unit :

The job role for Operations Support Engineer is :

  • To ensure operational excellence across all production systems supporting Big Data and Machine Learning platforms. This role is responsible for maintaining system reliability, managing incidents, changes and delivering ITIL-aligned support services to ensure seamless platform performance and user satisfaction.
  • Your responsibilities will include :

    Production Operations & Support

  • Monitor and maintain the health of production data and ML pipelines, platforms, and services.
  • Perform root cause analysis and resolution of production incidents.
  • Manage and coordinate incident response, escalation, and communication.
  • Ensure timely resolution of support tickets and service requests.
  • ITIL Service Management

  • Implement and manage ITIL processes including Incident, Problem, Change, and Release Management.
  • Maintain service documentation, runbooks, and operational procedures.
  • Participate in CAB (Change Advisory Board) reviews and ensure compliance with change protocols.
  • Operational Excellence

  • Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance system reliability and performance.
  • Collaborate with DevOps, MLOps, and Platform Engineering teams to automate operational tasks.
  • Track and report on SLAs, SLOs, and KPIs for operational services.
  • Monitoring & Observability

  • Set up and maintain monitoring, alerting, and logging systems.
  • Ensure visibility into system performance and proactively identify issues.
  • Support observability tooling and dashboards for platform health.
  • Stakeholder Engagement

  • Act as the first point of contact for production-related issues.
  • Liaise with internal teams and external vendors to resolve operational challenges.
  • Provide regular updates and reports to leadership on operational status and risks.
  • The ideal candidate for this role will have :

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field.
  • 5+ years of experience in Big Data, ML Operations Support.
  • Experience with Cloud based data technologies such as AWS, GCP or Azure.
  • 5+ years of overall IT experience with Big Data, Advance Analytics, Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence.
  • Relevant cloud certification at professional or associate level would be advantageous.
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills.
  • Agile exposure, Kanban, or Scrum.
  • Core competencies, knowledge, and experience :

  • In-depth knowledge of data as a product & Information best practices.
  • Experience in using a wide range for data tools such as AWS services – S3, SFTP, Glue, EMR (Spark), Airflow, Athena, CloudWatch, CouldTrail, KMS, Kinesis, OpenSearch, etc.
  • Strong understanding of ITIL frameworks and service management.
  • Experience in production support for data platforms, ML systems, or cloud infrastructure.
  • Familiarity with monitoring tools (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, Postgress).
  • Knowledge of incident and change management workflows.
  • Excellent troubleshooting, communication, and documentation skills.
  • Working experience with Cloud platforms such as AWS and GCP.
  • Working experience with Kubernetes and Docker containers.
  • Working experience with CI / CD, IAC and DevOps tools such as CDK, Code Repos, etc.
  • Strong programming skills in Python and SQL.
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