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- Kenya > Nairobi
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Competitive Salary
- Position Type: Experienced (non-manager)
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0 applicants
- Job Type: Permanent - Full Time Hours
- Job Ref: #AJFRrNQV
- Posted: Nov 21, 2022
- Deadline: Dec 21, 2022
job specialization: IT Services Software / Database Administration
As part of our DevOps team, you will design, architect, build, and automate the infrastructure that hosts a variety of applications ranging from financial products to our Machine Learning workloads for all our markets. You will be responsible for innovating and employing best practices when it comes to deployment, database management, security, and performance. As a subject matter expert, you will be expected to evangelize DevOps as a culture within the engineering organization.
duties
- Improve infra automation using modern tools.
- Optimize spend and improve elasticity on our infrastructure.
- Be responsible for continuously evaluating and implementing evolving best practices.
- Keep our systems and services secure by ensuring adherence to security best practices.
- Ensure availability with redundancies of all the critical components.
- Provide expert opinions for architecture and infrastructure decisions.
required skills
- Database Administration
- Information Security
- Network & System Adminstration
- Scripts & Utilities
required expertise
- Extensive exposure to at least one major cloud platform like AWS, GCP or Azure with commonly used services.
- Hands-on experience with deployment and orchestration technologies like Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, and Terraform.
- Being able to wear a DBA hat and tune PostgreSQL performance at query and storage engine level is a plus.
- Proficiency with at least one mainstream scripting language like Bash or Python as well as commonly used server software like PostgreSQL, Redis, etc.