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DevOps Engineer or Site Reliability Engineer Job

Full time @Staffrite in Ecommerce , in Engineering , in IT , in Software Engineering
  • Nairobi Area, Kenya View on Map
  • Post Date : March 5, 2022
  • Apply Before : March 10, 2022
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  • Job ID 4871
  • Career Level Executive
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Job Description

Our client is the leading e-commerce platform in Africa, built around a marketplace, Logistics, and Pay. The marketplace helps millions of consumers and sellers to connect and transact. Logistics enables the delivery of millions of packages through our network of local partners. The Pay facilitates the payments of online transactions for our client’s ecosystem. With over 1 billion people and 500 million internet users in Africa, our client believes that e-commerce is making people’s lives easier by helping them shop and pay for millions of products at the best prices wherever they live.

Staffrite HRA gives you a chance to be part of the biggest tech center in Africa and work in mixed teams with over 16 different nationalities. Join our clients at Kenya Tech Center where tech meets purpose.

  • Job Type: Full-time
  • Work Location: Nairobi
  • Industry: Internet, Retail, eCommerce, Marketplace

Main Responsibilities:

  1. Be part of an agile team Site Reliability Engineers using state-of-art tech technologies to build and monitor systems, applications and services;
  2. Work with our development teams to build a Continuous Integrations & Delivery pipeline
  • Improving the fill delivery pipeline to get faster time to market, lower failure rate of new releases and shorten the lead time between fixes;
  1. Develop tools to automate: product build and delivery, maintenance & operations tasks, quality standards testing;
  2. Support and influence our product development teams to use the Continuous Delivery
  3. infrastructure and DevOps Methodology;
  • Work with Product Development and Infrastructure Systems to design and implement solutions and resolve issues;
  • Help build reliable, high-performance, auto-scaled and fault-tolerant software throw standards as well as testing, load and stress testing;

Required Skills and Qualifications:

  1. Must have experience/knowledge in Linux environments;
  2. Experience/knowledge with configuration management tools;
  • Monitor tools;
  1. Shell and Python scripting;
  2. Skilled with tools such as Jenkins;
  3. Experience/Knowledge with CI/CD;
  • Experience with or interest in virtual/containers environments (e.g. Docker);
  • Knowledge of DevOps Methodology; Fluent in English;

Personal Skills:

  • Eager to work in a team environment and share knowledge;
  • Likes problem analysis and solving;
  • Enthusiast and interested in technologies and innovation;
  • Solution-oriented and proactive attitude, in parallel with “Get Things Done” mindset;
  • Bonuses (the following skills are not required but will make your profile stand out):
  • Knowledge in Kafka, RabbitMQ, Docker, Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Prometheus/AlertManager, Grafana, Elasticsearch/Logstash/Kibana, Vault, Consul, Couchbase, Redis, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, DNS;
  • Java, PHP, Javascript, GoLang;
  • Networking skills regarding routing and overall troubleshooting using TCPdump analysis;
  • Experience provisioning servers and services using AWS, Azure or GCP;
  • Familiar with SCRUM methodology;
  • We don’t expect you to be expert in all of these, but would like to hear from you on any you might find relevant from your experience;
  • Academic & trades qualifications:
  • Academic background in IT or equivalent;
  • Proficiency in English;
  • 2 year of experience;

What our client offers Successful Candidates:

  1. Space to use and experiment with new technologies in a robust tech environment
  2. A unique experience in an entrepreneurial, yet structured environment
  3. The opportunity to become part of a highly professional and dynamic team working around the world
  4. An unparalleled personal and professional growth as our longer-term objective is to train the next generation of leaders for our future internet venture.

How to Apply
Our clients’ unique approach means we’re looking for unique people. The foundation of our Client is built on transparency, collaboration, and a deep desire to make things better. So, if you’re ready to join a team of smart, highly motivated individuals, and feel like this position is a good fit, please send your CV only quoting the job title on the email subject (DevOps Engineer or Site Reliability Engineer to vacancies@staffrite.co.ke on or before 10th March 2022 COB! We can’t wait to hear from you.

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