Senior DevOps Engineer at Equity Bank Kenya

Description:

In line with supporting the business growth, we seek to recruit well-qualified, experienced, self-driven, highly motivated, and passionate candidates to fill the following position of Senior DevOps Engineer within the ICT DevOps Department.

Reporting to the Manager DevOps, the Senior DevOps engineer will serve as the subject matter expert for the technologies and solutions used in the automation and monitoring of processes and applications.

Responsibilities:

• Defining and setting up development, test, release, update, and support processes for DevOps operations.
• Designing and implementing various development, testing, and IT infrastructure automation tools.
• Troubleshooting, diagnosing, and fixing bugs in various codebases.
• Incidence management and root cause analysis
• Monitoring and measuring platform and application performance in addition to other KPIs.
• Periodic reporting on performance of platforms and applications.
• Managing stakeholders and external interfaces
• Identifying and deploying cybersecurity measures by continuously performing vulnerability assessment and risk management.

Qualifications

Role Requirements:

• Degree in Information Technology or related course
• Experience in Java, C#, HTML5, JavaScript, Python
• Good understanding of Source Code version control: Git
• Working knowledge on CI/CD: Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Ansible
• Experience in working with containers & orchestration tools: Docker, Vagrant, Kubernetes, Mesos, Swarm, Fabric
• Experience working on Cloud platforms: Azure, AWS, Private & Hybrid Clouds
• Working knowledge on Continuous testing and automation: Selenium, Appium, TestComplete, Rational Functional Tester
• Good Analytical & Problem-solving skills.
•  Attention to detail.
•  Good oral & written communication skills