Platform Engineer at Old Mutual Kenya

Job Description

• Create a permanent, more integrated (with the rest of the team) role. Eliminate constant contracting overhead.
• Establish sustainable platform engineering capability for OMAR data platform
• Ensure software configuration management tooling adheres to the Old Mutual Cloud Security Controls Standard.
• Facilitate cadence calls with the development teams to understand demand in software configuration management and deployment, in order maintain the Platform Engineering product backlog.
• Own the execution/implementation of multiple Platform Engineering objectives, per quarter.
• Develop boilerplate infrastructure-as-code to provision build and deployment environments for software teams.
• Craft and maintain Platform Engineering documentation, templates and style guides and assist software development teams to adopt standards during delivery.
• Review technical artefacts (code, templates and documentation) generated by Associate Platform Engineers and software development teams.
• Respond (1st line) to and resolve support tickets in the Platform Engineering support queue.
• Facilitate AWS technical enablement workshops to the software development and architecture teams.
• Craft public-facing artefacts (blog posts, whitepapers, or open-source projects) which can be used by the engineering community outside the organization.

Skills

• Data Analytics, Platform Engineering

Education

• Bachelors Degree (B) (Required)