Jobs at Royal Media Group

Qualifications;

• Bachelor in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Statistics, Computer Engineering or any other relevant course
• A DevOps Engineer who has a wide-ranging knowledge of both development and operations, including scripting, infrastructure management, system administration, and DevOps toolchains.
• He/she needs to have a strong understanding of common system architecture, provisioning, and administration, source control, giving and receiving code reviews, writing unit tests, and familiarity with agile principles.
• For this role, she/he will be driving innovation in our product development while relentlessly improving the performance, scalability, high availability and cost optimization

The DevOps engineer shall undertake the following:

• Working with software developers and software engineers to build and manage production services to ensure high availability
• Design, configure, and support software build/deploy pipelines (CI/CD, Git, GitLab) for Group projects
• Build and set up new development tools, policies and infrastructure
• Undertakes software deployment through various staged operating environments i.e. Development, QA, Staging, Production
• Ensure that we have the best system hosting & backup services for all products across the Group
• Tests code, processes, and deployments to identify ways to streamline and minimize errors
• Ensuring that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats
• Establish and enforce system monitoring tools to ensure high availability and cost optimization
• Establish and enforce risk assessment policies and standards

What you’ll need

• Fluency in scripting languages i.e bash and python
• Hands on experience in managing AWS or related cloud infrastructure at scale as well as on-prem infrastructure
• Experience in building high availability and auto-scaling infrastructure that optimizes cost and performance
• Skills in building and designing automated deployment pipelines in CI/CD environment
  • Strong skills in the following technologies
    Linux and related distros
    Monitoring tools and techniques i.e. (grafana, graphite, nagios etc)
    Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
    Experience in servers, servlet containers and web servers (Nginx, Apache, Tomcat)
    Intermediate to expert level skills in RDBMSs such as Mysql, Postgresql
    Working knowledge of Virtualization i.e. vmware, virtualbox etc
• Great communication and collaboration skills

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Job Ref No. HRD/CORR/SIA/8/2024

Key roles & responsibilities

• Ability to shoot visual content, report, write, edit and produce stories on deadline for multiple platforms – Tv, Radio, digital and social media platforms
• Offer creative and innovative ideas for elevated storytelling
• Excellent writing skills, with solid news judgment and ethical decision-making skills
• Generating ideas for news stories and news features
• Following leads from news agencies, the police, the public, press conferences and other sources
• Generating ideas to head of desks, editors and producers
• Writing scripts for bulletins, headlines and special reports
• Superior on-camera presentation
• Capture quality footage
• Edit footage as needed
• Provide practical and creative input to scene planning
• Exercising judgment on the best story angle
• Preparing material for both pre-recorded and live pieces
• Developing and maintaining useful contacts and relations with news sources

Academic and professional/work Experience

• Degree in journalism, mass communications or any other related field
• At least 3 Years relevant experience as a reporter / correspondent in a busy media house.

Essential Competences

• Excellent written and spoken English, Swahili and Luo (Attach vernacular voice demo in mp3 format)
• An edge for news or features, ability for quick thinking, persistence, personal initiative and a good memory
• Sound knowledge of the local and international social, political and economic news-shaping environment
• A clear communicating voice
• Ability to report accurately and impartially.