Job Description

Job Vacancy: DevOps Platform Engineer

Objective

• Support the development, deployment, and operation of our software in AWS (Amazon Web Services) enabling frequent, secure, and reliable release of software to production.


• Assist our developers to deliver excellent software by providing the tools, environments, source control, and automated testing and deployment that they need.

Responsibilities:

• Automate and run the build, test, and deployment of our software in AWS


• Build and maintain tools, solutions and microservices associated with deployment of our platform.


• Manage code deployments, fixes, updates, and related processes.


• Enable continuous development and integration (CI/CD) and support developers to use the CI/CD pipeline.


• Implement monitoring tools to detect issues, measure performance and provide telemetry for developers.


• Design and build infrastructure that delivers high uptime using High Availability designs and self-healing systems


• Develop operational dashboards and alarms.


• Monitor performance and capacity and introduce solutions to maintain service levels.


• Actively troubleshoot any issues that arise during testing and catch and solve issues before release


• Troubleshoot operational incidents


• Ensure security good practice is followed in deployment and operations.


• Assist in establishing DevOps practices


• The DevOps engineer will be working as part of a distributed team with colleagues in Kenya, Tanzania, China, UK, USA and elsewhere.


• CircleTech delivers a 24hour service to customers. The DevOps Engineer may be required to work overnight and weekends to resolve urgent technical incidents or to make changes at a time that causes least disruption to customers.

Qualifications

• Degree in Information Technology or equivalent


• AWS qualifications an advantage.


• 3 years’ experience with AWS particularly EC2, VPC, Cloud Formation, CloudTrail and CloudWatch.


• Excellent network design and troubleshooting skills.


• Knowledge of scripting languages such as Python


• Experience in CI/CD tools such as AWS Code deploy


• Some experience in one or more database systems including Dynamo DB, MySQL, or PostgreSQL


• Experience of monitoring tools such as Graphana and Data Dog


• Good understanding of Information Security in web applications.


• Enthusiasm to continually improve skills and learn new technologies


• At least two years relevant experience.


• Fluent in English and Kiswahili


• Female candidates are specially encouraged to apply

How to Apply

Send CV to recruitment@sheerlogicltd.com by 1st March 2022.

Clearly indicate the job title “DevOps Platform Engineer”

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