DevOps Engineer Job in Kenya

Job Description

Reporting to the DevSecOps lead • Digital Engineering, the position holder will be responsible for developing and building DevOps Platforms/processes, automation of  IT infrastructure provisioning, implementing reusable and secured components, translating technical requirements, assisting and guiding throughout software development stages, and performing script maintenance and updates. 

The DevOps Engineer will be responsible for building automated deployments, deploying new modules and upgrades, deploying product updates, identifying production issues, implementing integrations that meet stakeholders’ needs, completing fixes within the production environment as well and monitoring the environments and deployments for service/product availability. 

Duties & Responsibilities

Recommend, Design, set, and implement cloud-native solutions for DevOps platforms and processes leveraging opensource solutions

Setup, monitor, support, integrate, and automate security and quality scans for infrastructure and service deployments 


Write automation scripts using Bash/Java/Python/Groovy/Ruby and automate systems health visualization, use various tools to orchestrate solutions i.e., Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery Tools.

Understand, set, and support basic ML models and algorithms for pro-active monitoring and Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for production errors leveraging on machine learning and AIOPs

Configure and manage data sources e.g., RDBs and NoSQL, and Implement solutions to improve observability and monitoring for tools/platforms and services 

Participating in the analysis and document requirements for the development of new or improved infrastructure deployment automation.

Build/integrate with tools to reduce occurrences of errors and improve the deployment cycle, deploy updates and fixes, and implement integrations requested by the software engineering team.

Developing Cloud Native Applications.

Investigate and resolve technical issues.

Design procedures for system troubleshooting and maintenance.

Maintain team and project management tools such as Jira, Confluence, and Mural

Qualifications

BSc or MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or relevant field.

2+ years of experience in managing Linux-based infrastructure.

2+ years of experience as a DevOps Engineer or similar software engineering role (DevOps Certifications will be an added advantage)

2+ years’ experience in DevOps processes and tools (Docker, Kubernetes, Vagrant, Chef/Puppet, Ansible, Jenkins, Dynatrace, Splunk, Git, Gitops, Redis, OpenShift, Terraform, Hashicorp vault, FluxCD).

Demonstrable experience with continuous integration tools like Jenkins/Gitlab-ci/ Tekton.

Demonstrable experience in Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform/Cloud-formation.

Experience in IT across designing, engineering, and development of IT toolsets in the infrastructure monitoring, analytics, and AIOPS solutions (Dynatrace, Splunk, Kibana) 

Strong understanding and experience in Machine Learning (ML) algorithms for various AIOP use cases such as classification, clustering, and anomaly detection.

Exposure to ELK stack, Monitoring, and observability solutions (Grafana, Prometheus, Dynatrace, Splunk,), OpenTelemetry implementation, and automation testing on AWS cloud-based deployments, preferably in a containerized environment.

Demonstrable experience in Public Cloud Platforms, deployment, and operations with a focus on AWS (Professional Certifications is an added advantage)

Good knowledge of shell scripting using Bash/Python/Groovy/Go.

Working knowledge of programming languages such as Java or Python.

Working knowledge of databases both RDBMS and NoSQL.

Working knowledge of Cloud Native tools e.g. Crossplane, Liqo, open telemetry

Team spirit and team player.

Excellent Interpersonal, problem-solving, good time-management, learning mentality, and communication skills.

Demonstrable experience with continuous delivery methods such as GitOps.

Experience and knowledge of agile methodologies

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Apply before or on 23rd Jan 2024