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Equity Bank Limited (The "Bank”) is incorporated, registered under the Kenyan Companies Act Cap 486 and domiciled in Kenya. The address of the Bank’s registered office is 9th Floor, Equity Centre, P.O. Box 75104 - 00200 Nairobi. The Bank is licensed under the Kenya Banking Act (Chapter 488), and continues to offer retail banking, microfinance a...
Job Purpose:
As Systems Site Reliability Engineer, you will be involved in exciting technical challenges by analyzing, troubleshooting, and designing vital services, platforms, and infrastructure while always thinking about reliability, scalability, resilience, security, and performance.
Reporting to the SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) Lead, you will be a part of the team responsible for helping to support 24x7 uptime and availability of production mission-critical services within the Bank. You will help to create more consistent, automated environments across all applications or services, proactively test and tune all aspects of the platforms, streamline CI/CD processes, monitor, and respond to system notifications and alerts and continually work to optimize and improve the performance, security, and reliability of our systems.
Job Responsibilities/Accountabilities
- Run the production environment by monitoring availability, stability and resilience and taking a holistic view of system / service health.
- Perform data centric performance measurements in line with agreed service level objectives
- Build software to automate and improve management of platform infrastructure and applications
- Proactively improve reliability, resilience, and runtime stability of our applications services
- Measure and optimize system performance, with an eye toward pushing our capabilities forward, getting ahead of customer needs, and innovating to continually improve.
- Provide primary operational support and engineering for multiple large software applications
- Gather and analyze metrics from both operating systems and applications to assist in performance tuning and fault finding
- Collaborate with Dev teams to improve services through rigorous testing and release procedures
- Participate in architecture design, platform management, and capacity planning exercises.
- Create sustainable systems and services through automation and uplifts
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent
- 4+ years’ experience as SRE/DevOps Engineer
- Demonstrable experience in Containerization-Docker and orchestration (Kubernetes)
- Demonstrable experience in CI/CD tools such as Azure DevOps, circle CI, Jenkins etc.
- Good understanding of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Cloud Formation, Ansible)
- Familiarity with Linux and UNIX systems and command line system administration such as Bash, VIM, SSH.
- Basic scripting skills (preferably Golang, bash, shell, etc.,)
- Experience in monitoring and analyzing infrastructure performance using standard performance monitoring tools – Dynatrace, Azure Application insights, Prometheus, SolarWinds
- Good understanding of networking concepts e.g., Network routing, Load balancing, and Networking protocols, a base knowledge of TCP/IP, with an understanding of HTTP and DNS
- Experience in programming (structured and OOP) with one or more high level languages, such as Python, Java, .NET, and JavaScript
- Knowledge and proven hands-on experience in large-scale databases and distributed technologies, such as Kafka and Redis will be an added advantage
- A proactive approach to spotting problems and bottlenecks, troubleshooting incidents
CLOSING DATE: 31ST MARCH 2022
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