Engineer – Cloud, Container & SRE Engineer at Safaricom Kenya

Reporting to the Cloud, Container & SRE Chapter Lead, the position holder shall provide expertise in planning and operations of the Container & Cloud platforms to support DevOps and Business projects by building robust data pipelines using ETL tools thus having releases through automated CI / CD processes

Job Responsibilities

• Agile practices and ways of working, including the use of tools such as Jira & Confluence
• Sharing expertise with Squad members and working cross-functionally to advance the work of the Squad
• Responsible for building, maintaining and supporting high-performance, fault-tolerant, scalable and distributed Platform as a Service systems.
• Responsible for interfacing with application development teams to ensure applications fit within the infrastructure with scalability, reliability and security designed and implemented from the onset.
• Work as a Squad Member in the domain of expertise, helping to advance the work and using the experience to maximize Squad performance
• Responsible for establishing and improving team processes and workflows to maximize efficiency and productivity of people and systems.
• Responsible for reviewing  cloud technologies and defining digital transformation models and roadmaps.
• Lead in automation of infrastructure at massive scale to support scaling of digital services.
• Professional experience in building robust data pipelines using ETL tools

Qualifications

• BSc Degree in computer science, IT or engineering.
• 2+ years’ experience in infrastructure support and/or planning in an environment with mixed VMware and Redhat virtualization.
• Experience with Container/PaaS orchestration/management platforms such as Kubernetes, OpenShift, CloudFoundry.
• Extensive knowledge of enterprise Linux Server Operating Systems such as RHEL/ CentOS, Ubuntu.
• Experience with Configuration Management eg Chef, Ansible, Terraform.
• Good understanding of build tools, CI/CD, Devops and Agile principles.
• Cloud knowledge and integration models.
• Strong oral, written, interpersonal communication and leadership skills