DevOps Engineer at KCB Bank Kenya 2022

  • Published date: June 14, 2022
  • Category: Engineering
    • Location: Nairobi, Nairobi
  • Jop type:
  • Salary: Ksh Not mentioned
  • Company name: Jobs in Kenya

Job Description

Job Description


 


 


Kenya Commercial Bank Limited is registered as a non-operating holding company which started operations as a licensed banking institution with effect from January 1, 2016. The holding company oversees KCB Kenya – incorporated with effect from January 1, 2016 – and all KCB’s regional units in Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Ethiopia and South Sudan. It also owns KCB Insurance Agency, KCB Capital, KCB Foundation and all associate companies. The holding company was set up to among other things to enhance the Group’s capacity to access unrestricted capital and also enable investment in new ventures outside banking regulations, achieve operational and strategic autonomy for the Group’s operating entities and enhance corporate governance across the Group and oversight in management of subsidiaries.

 



The Position:


The DevOps Engineer works with application developers to automate and accelerate the testing, release, and deployment of applications into a runtime environment quickly and reliably. The DevOps Engineer will have a background in development, operations, and full-stack implementations. The DevOps engineer acts as a fulcrum between development and operational teams, and basically forms the foundation of the entire DevOps environment.


Key Responsibilities:



  • Develop and maintain Continuous Integration (CI) / Continuous Deployment (CD) strategy that allows the organization to use DevOps at scale.

  • Envision, build, and execute automated testing plans for all the software developed in the organization and provide reporting templates for monitoring testing coverage.

  • Contribute to developing best practices for infrastructure as code (such as Puppet, Shell scripting); software build tools (such as Maven, Gradle, etc.) and continuous integration tools (such as Jenkins, TeamCity, etc.)

  • Mentoring and coaching junior software developers in gaining experience and assuming DevOps responsibilities.

  • Design, build & maintain infrastructure to support a continuous software development process, including all phases of development, quality assurance and software deployment.

  • Provides direction into standards and procedures for monitoring, capacity planning, tuning, maintenance, performance optimization, backups, and recovery; ensures infrastructure will meet capacity requirements to deliver on time.

  • Setup/Configuration/Administration of code Repositories like Git, SVN

  • Manage Image storage to ensure consistency and recoverability of the same as required.

  • Development of process and procedures of code versions to ensure proper governance and security is always maintained within the enterprise.

  • Acts as a thought leader for DevOps practice in the organization while working with stakeholders to select “fit for purpose tools” to be used in the DevOps orchestration/automation processes.


The Person:


For the above position, the successful applicant should have the following:



  • Bachelor’s degree from a recognized university.

  • Certification in cloud technologies such as Kubernetes, OpenShift or related.

  • Use of DevOps tools such as Jenkins, Ansible or similar and professional software development using JAVA, Python etc is required.

  • 3 years’ experience in commercial software development with at least 2 years’ experience in developing release pipelines and GitOps frameworks.

  • Proficient in scripting.

  • Hands-on knowledge of configuration management and deployment tools like Puppet, Ansible, Chef, Terraform.

  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills.



 


Method of Application


Submit your CV and Application on Company Website : Click Here

Closing Date : 24 June. 2022


 

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