DevOps Engineer – AWS, Terraform & ECS/Fargate
Allied Global Technology Services · Comté de Nairobi
Job description
About the role
We are seeking a senior DevOps Engineer to design, build, and maintain reliable, secure, and cost‑efficient cloud infrastructure for high‑throughput, low‑latency production systems that run 24/7.
Key responsibilities
- Design, deploy and maintain scalable, highly available AWS infrastructure across multiple accounts, optimizing costs through right‑sizing and waste reduction.
- Manage containerised workloads with ECS/Fargate, Docker, ECR, ALBs, NLBs and autoscaling.
- Develop reusable, versioned Terraform modules and handle infrastructure changes across dev, QA, integration and production environments.
- Build and improve Jenkins CI/CD pipelines, including Groovy shared libraries, Jenkinsfiles, Java/Maven builds and early‑stage security scanning.
- Implement observability, monitoring, logging, alerting and incident‑troubleshooting solutions using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, Fluent Bit, Logstash and OpenSearch.
- Create automation scripts, AWS Lambda functions and operational tools with Python (boto3) and Bash.
- Document runbooks and operational procedures, manage work through Jira and Confluence, and follow a pull‑request‑based workflow.
Required profile
- 7+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE or Platform Engineering supporting 24/7 production systems.
- Strong ownership mindset, ability to work independently in a remote environment and collaborate with distributed teams.
- Security‑first approach with experience in vulnerability remediation and secure credential management.
Required skills
- AWS services: VPC, Transit Gateway, Route 53, ACM, CloudFront, IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager, SSM, CloudTrail.
- ECS/Fargate, Docker, ECR, ALB, NLB, autoscaling.
- Terraform (modules, remote state, version pinning).
- Jenkins CI/CD, Groovy, Java/Maven pipelines.
- Observability tools: Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, Fluent Bit, Logstash, OpenSearch.
- Python (boto3), Bash, AWS Lambda.
- Streaming/Data: Kafka (MSK), Aerospike, EMR/EMR Serverless, Flink, Airflow, Athena, S3.
What we offer
- 100% remote work arrangement.
- 15 PTO days plus US holidays.
- Company‑provided computer.
- Annual Pluralsight membership.
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Allied Global Technology Services
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