QSSK-DGM-DPE-Devops Platform Engineer at Q-Sourcing Servtec Group

Job Role Description

• The successful candidate will support the development, deployment, and operation of our software in AWS (Amazon Web Services) enabling frequent, secure, and reliable release of software to production.
• Assist our developers to deliver excellent software by providing the tools, environments, source control, and automated testing and deployment that they need.

Key Responsibilities

• Automate and run the build, test, and deployment of our software in AWS
• Build and maintain tools, solutions and microservices associated with deployment of our platform.
• Manage code deployments, fixes, updates, and related processes.
• Enable continuous development and integration (CI/CD) and support developers to use the CI/CD pipeline.
• Implement monitoring tools to detect issues, measure performance and provide telemetry for developers.
• Design and build infrastructure that delivers high uptime using High Availability designs and self-healing systems
• Develop operational dashboards and alarms.
• Monitor performance and capacity and introduce solutions to maintain service levels.
• Actively troubleshoot any issues that arise during testing and catch and solve issues before release
• Troubleshoot operational incidents
• Ensure security good practice is followed in deployment and operations.
• Assist in establishing DevOps practices

Other

• The DevOps engineer will be working as part of a distributed team with colleagues in Kenya, Tanzania, China, UK, USA and elsewhere.
• CircleTech delivers a 24hour service to customers. The DevOps Engineer may be required to work overnight and weekends to resolve urgent technical incidents or to make changes at a time that causes least disruption to customers.

Academic Qualifications

• Degree in Information Technology or equivalent
• AWS qualifications an advantage.

Competencies

• Excellent network design and troubleshooting skills.
• Knowledge of scripting languages such as Python
• Experience in CI/CD tools such as AWS Code deploy
• Some experience in one or more database systems including Dynamo DB, MySQL, or PostgreSQL
• Experience of monitoring tools such as Graphana and Data Dog
• Good understanding of Information Security in web applications.
• Enthusiasm to continually improve skills and learn new technologies
• Fluent in English and Kiswahili
• Female candidates are specially encouraged to apply

Previous Relevant Work Experience Required.

• 3 years' experience with AWS particularly EC2, VPC, Cloud Formation, CloudTrail and CloudWatch.