DevOps and InfoSec Director (Location Agnostic) job at MFS Africa
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Vacancy title:
DevOps and InfoSec Director (Location Agnostic)

[ Type: FULL TIME , Industry: Financial Services , Category: Computer & IT ]

Jobs at:

MFS Africa

Deadline of this Job:
12 July 2022  

Duty Station:
Within Kenya , Nairobi , East Africa

Summary
Date Posted: Tuesday, June 28, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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JOB DETAILS:
DevOps and InfoSec Director (Location Agnostic)
We are recruiting a DevOps and Infosec Director to join the Emerging Enterprise team. This role is paramount to the success of Beyonic as it will initially combine the deployment manager, infrastructure manager, systems administrator, systems security engineer and database administrator functions. The role will be in charge of eventually growing out each of these functions into separate roles on the Infrastructure, Systems, and InfoSec team.
The ideal candidate will have 4+ years of working experience in a high-tech, SaaS environment, including 2+ years as a senior engineer or network systems administrator. The position is location agnostic; however, a candidate’s home time zone will be relevant to success in the role (GMT -1 to +3 preferred).

You might be a good fit if you have :
• Working knowledge of Unix/Linux systems administration
• Working knowledge of network administration, IP addressing, VPC, VPN setup, DMZs
• Knowledge of Google Cloud Platform, security and tools
• MySQL DBA skills & general SQL systems maintenance
• Knowledge of the general workings of SMTP, SMS, USSD, DNS, Android, IOS, Git
• Software development skills are a plus - particularly in Python, Django and/or Angular
• Microservice and Web service knowledge, including REST, SOAP, JWT
• API and web server configuration and deployment
• Knowledge of docker, kubernetes and related technologies
• Shell scripting knowledge

Duties and Responsibilities:
• Manage Beyonic’s deployment processes, including scheduling and managing deployments to ensure minimal customer impact
• Setup an robust continuous integration process across Beyonic’ s micro -services and development teams
• Assist in setting up the tools for efficient, automated QA and UAT processes
• Setup, maintain and scale Beyonic’s backend and front infrastructure and database systems, and development, test
• and production environments
• Make decisions about tools, providers and technologies to support Beyonic’s infrastructure as we scale
• Balance scale and cost to provide an efficient, performant user experience
• Setup and maintain processes for archiving, backups, security patching, application performance monitoring, redundancy and fault tolerance
• Define, disseminate & monitor Beyonic’s information security policy
• Take charge of Beyonic’s domain names, DNS systems, SSL certificates, third party services and service providers like mail,SMS and cache services
• Perform regular security scans and audits, keep abreast of the latest security advisories and threats, and train the team on the same
• Create mitigation plans for various service denial scenarios

The ideal candidate will have the following qualifications and experience:
• 4+ years of working experience in a high-tech, SaaS environment, including 2+ years as a senior engineer or network systems administrator
• An IT or software engineering degree
• IT and networking certifications with demonstrated experience

Education Requirement: No Requirements

Work Hours: 8


Experience in Months: 48

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Job Info
Job Category: Computer/ IT jobs in Kenya
Job Type: Full-time
Deadline of this Job: 12 July 2022
Duty Station: Nairobi
Posted: 28-06-2022
No of Jobs: 1
Start Publishing: 28-06-2022
Stop Publishing (Put date of 2030): 28-06-2065
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