Devops Engineer
FullTime
Kenya,
Nairobi
Posted
22/03/2022,
2 years ago
Industry: Computer and information technology
Role: Information technology
Salary Range: Confidential
Closing: 15/04/2022
Client: Confidential
Reports to: Cloud/DevOps Team Manager
Our client is a young, agile, and dynamic B2B service provider for many large reputable companies within the technology, betting, and gaming industries. The company has a fast-paced multinational culture and a fantastic opportunity for stepping up in your career and becoming an instrumental part of the team.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Responsible for building, testing and maintaining the infrastructure and tools to allow for the speedy development, release and support of software in production
- Building and setting up new development tools and infrastructure
- Understanding the needs of stakeholders and conveying this to developers
- Working on ways to automate and improve development, release and support processes for software
- Ensuring that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats
- Identifying technical problems and developing updates and ‘fixes’
- Working with software developers to ensure that development follows established processes and works as intended
- Continuously enhance monitoring and alerting and focus on symptoms and not on outages
- Participate in post incident reviews, document findings and automate self-healing jobs to reduce MTTR
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:
- Familiar with the Linux Shell for administration and troubleshooting
- Familiar with the usage of configuration management systems like Chef, Ansible, Puppet
- Have programming skills - Ruby, Go, Python
- Have experience with Nginx, HAProxy, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, or similar technologies
- Ability to use GitLab
- Familiarity with monitoring tools such as ELK, Grafana, application performance monitoring and packet trace analysis tools (e.g. wireshark)
- Hunting mentality for system uptime and performance - explore edge cases, failure modes, behaviors, specific implementations.
- At least 7 years of experience in IT Infrastructure or software development
- BA/BS in Computer Science, Engineering or related technology field
SKILLS AND COMPETENCIESBL
- Strong problem-solving skills, critical thinking, excellent analytical ability, strong judgment and the ability to deliver high performance and high levels of customer satisfaction
- Must be able to work under extreme pressure with strong operational background
- Very high work ethics and personal integrity