Summary
Date Posted: Wednesday, May 18, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
About The Role
Reporting to the Senior Manager - Infrastructure Operations, this role will be based in Nairobi, Kenya. The incumbent will be working closely with our Engineering and Client Delivery teams to support current and new deployments and support the business move the platform and products forward. This position is required to be hands-on, while equipped with the necessary technical expertise.
Personality of a LendTech Engineer

You Will Be
• Passionate about DevOps, Automation and Infrastructure as Code
• Proud of your work but always believing the best is yet to come
• Able to take criticism positively and to learn from mistakes
• Able to self critique and analyze and be motivated to constantly improve and develop both professionally and personally
• High attention to detail
• See process, procedure and documentation as tools to support excellence
• Customer focused and understands the business we are operating in.

Key Role Responsibilities
• Design, develop and deploy systems that improve the stability, scalability, availability, and security of our solutions.
• Design, build, test, deploy and maintain standardized tooling and process automation in an environment where infrastructure is defined in code.
• Support and enhance infrastructure including: CI/CD, DNS, service discovery, identity and access control, auditing, scheduling and orchestration, data persistence, network, monitoring, alerting and observability
• Improve the quality of deployment, monitoring, and security automation tooling to improve reliability and velocity.
• Design and develop improvements, focused on resilience, to our production systems to achieve and surpass SLAs.
• Help improve our operational practices to minimize service disruptions.
• Resolve issues with our production systems and build solutions to prevent them from reoccurring.
• Debug production issues across services and levels of the stack.
• Plan the growth of Lendtech infrastructure.
• Designing and implementing, monitoring and logging systems at scale.
• Evolving systems towards improved reliability and scalability.

Essential Experience
• Working proficiency with Clojure, Python or any other programming or scripting language (additionally to SQL or R)
• Working proficiency with any RDBMS (PostgreSQL is a plus).
• Experience with using development tools for version control namely GIT and CICD tools namely Jenkins, Drone.
• Being familiar with the Linux environment as a user and developer (Debian is a plus).
• Broad-based IT experience with technical knowledge of Networks, virtualization, Hardware, Storage, Operating systems, and Applications.
• Knowledge in Technology Stacks (Cloud, Containers, Kubernetes etc.)
• Working knowledge of ITIL / Cobit / Agile (certification an advantage)

Desired Experience
• Knowledge of Data Security, Secure Coding, Encryption, Multi-tenancy, Scalability, and High Availability
• Experience with software development best practices - include handling and logging errors, monitoring the system, building fault-tolerant pipelines, understanding how to scale up, addressing continuous integration
• Solid understanding of payment industry and multi-channel commerce space
• Experience with, and preference for, leveraging open source solutions
• Experience with a mix of large enterprise customers as well as small, high-value customers

Education Requirement: No Requirements

Job Experience: No Requirements

Work Hours: 8

Job application procedure
Use the link below to apply.
https://dtone.bamboohr.com/jobs/view.php?id=320

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