Job Description

Position: Site Reliability Engineer

Location: Nairobi

Reports to: Development Lead

Our Client is a young, agile, and dynamic B2B service provider for many large reputable companies within the technology, betting, and gaming industries.

The company has a fast-paced multinational culture and a fantastic opportunity for stepping up in your career and becoming an instrumental part of the team.

Key Responsibilities:

• Working across several business areas providing development, maintenance, and support


• Work on projects that directly impact key business metrics


• Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services—from inception and design, deployment, operation, and refinement.


• Support services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning, and launch reviews.


• Maintain services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency, and overall system health.


• Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation; evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity.


• Lead sustainable incident response, blameless postmortems, and production improvements that result in direct business opportunities for Organization.


• Manage individual project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.


• Guide other team members on managing end-to-end availability and performance of mission-critical services, building automation to prevent problem recurrence, and building automated responses for non-exceptional service conditions.


• Able to work in shifts


• Meet frequently in standups and grooming sessions with your engineers and product team


• A working understanding of software engineering principles


• Help identify probable causes and provide immediate solutions during an incident


• Contribute to engineering efforts from planning and organization to execution and delivery to solve complex, real-world engineering problems.

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related technical field involving software/systems engineering, or equivalent practical experience.


• Experience programming in at least one of the following languages: C, C++, Java, Python, or Go.


• Experience with algorithms and data structures.


• 3-5 years of experience in computing, distributed systems, storage, or networking.

Skills and Competencies

• Expertise in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.


• Ability to debug, optimize code, and automate routine tasks.


• Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with effective communication skills and a sense of drive.


• Experience with algorithms and data structures and/or Unix/Linux systems internals (e.g., filesystems, system calls) and administration.

To apply send your CV to recruit@flexi-personnel.com by 31st March 2022 indicating Site Reliability Engineer as the email subject.

NB: Flexi Personnel does not charge candidates for job placement

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