DevOps Engineer at Standard Chartered Bank Kenya

Responsibilities
 

• Working closely with the engineering team to deploy and maintain the infrastructure.
• Automate and streamline our operations and processes for scale.
• Maintain SLAs by tuning systems according to scale.
• Designing systems at scale to make sure solutions built are economical and secured.
• Strong understanding of immutable infrastructure and infrastructure as code concepts.
• A 'detail obsessed' professional who puts customer experience at the heart of any product design
• A technology enthusiast who is up-to-date with the latest developments in the world of technology
• Someone who can:
• Balance customer delight, technology viability and business feasibility
• Think big and take ownership of deliverables from ideation to execution
• Embrace chaos, uncertainty and volatility
• Work in a dynamic environment with a diverse set of stakeholders

Key Stakeholders
 

• Venture Lead, Solv Kenya
• Commercial Lead, Solv Kenya
• Risk and Compliance Solv Kenya

Our Ideal Candidate

• AWS certified DevOps Engineer with 5-8 years of experience.
• Hands on experience working on AWS and Google Cloud.
• At least one-year exp in microservices using Docker, kubernetes (EKS), Lambda, EC2, ingress and api gateways.
• Most have worked with Container and automation tools such as Docker, terraform and Ansible Jenkins
• In-depth knowledge of Networks topology and cloud Security.
• Strive for continuous improvement and build continuous integration, continuous development, and constant deployment pipeline (CI/CD Pipeline)
• Well versed with at-least two scripting languages - Shell and one more (Python , Ruby). And CloudFormation .
• Sound understanding of OS (Linux, CentOs) and OS hardening.
• Defining and setting development, test, release, update, and support processes for DevOps operation
• Capable of leading a team of ops and ability of prepare and execute a vision.
• Implementing various development, testing, automation tools, and IT infrastructure
• Should be able to work Independently and execute tasks with precision.
• Encouraging and building automated processes wherever possible
• Code, Build and Release management (CICD) using GIT / Bitbucket and Jenkins.
• Optimising and monitoring server performance and infrastructure cost optimisations.
• Operation and architecture of multi-tier distributed systems Involving load balancers, firewalls, elastic compute, RDS and KAFKA.
• Having the working knowledge of Promatheus and Grafana