DevSecOps Engineer (22000097) at Safaricom Kenya

Detailed Description

Reporting to the DevSecOps & IT Automation Lead the job holder will work with agile teams structured in tribes and squads to ensure that the squads and other teams within the organization can adopt the DevSecOps culture and practices on their day-to-day work. The job holder will also be responsible for collaborating with the security teams, developers, infrastructure team and other stake holders within the DevSecOps ecosystem.

Responsibilities

• Writes, tests, and documents DevOps Pipelines, Configurations/Infra as Code according to Safaricom Engineering standards and practices.
• Hands-on experience with Linux Servers and AWS
• Understands Microservices concepts, Docker and Basic container orchestration using Kubernetes.
• Able to implement a standard CI/CD Flow using Jenkins or GitLab-CI
• Has shown capability to adopt best coding and practicing standards with regards to the laid down frameworks and standards
• Perform peer reviews with the DevSecOps team.
• Develop and contribute to quality Pipelines, Code and configuration Management
• Writes, tests and documents code as per Safaricom guidelines
• Consistently delivers small improvements that have impact to Safaricom teams and squads
• Takes ownership of small projects or smaller parts of large projects
• Understands DevOps Principles and concepts
• Foundational knowledge of Infrastructure as Code with working knowledge of one Terraform and/or Ansible.

Qualifications

• CICD tools knowledge like Jenkins
• Scripting language skills groovy, go, bash and python
• Knowledge of cloud technologies like AWS and Azure
• Knowledge of monitoring tools like Dynatrace, Splunk and Prometheus
• Knowledge of container, package managers and orchestration tools like – terraform, docker and helm.
• Knowledge on the DevSecOps ecosystem like – the pillars, maturity model, adoption strategies, tools and principles.
• High level of skill in their discipline. Independently leads medium sized (4-8 engineering weeks) project through the entire life cycle from design to development and deployment
• Confident contributor to cross-company engineering efforts or guilds

Last Date to Apply: Feb 23, 2022