Operations Support Engineer at Vodafone Global Enterprise

Experience: Mid-level

Education: Bachelors

Job-type: Full Time

Location: Gauteng

Field: IT

Vodafone Global Enterprise is a multinational company which provides telecommunications and information technology services to large corporations, and a wholly owned subsidiary of Vodafone Group. It is headquartered in London, England, and was established in April 2007.

Job Overview 

  • 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.

Responsibilities

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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

Requirements

  • 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

Competencies

  • 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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