Engineer Job – Cloud, Container & SRE Engineer at Safaricom Kenya… See details on how to apply for the opportunities available at Safaricom Kenya.
Descriptions;
Safaricom is the leading provider of converged communication solutions in Kenya. In addition to providing a broad range of first-class products and services for Telephony, Broadband Internet and Financial services, Safaricom seeks to uplift the welfare of Kenyans through value-added services and support for community projects.
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
