DevOps Engineer – Cloud Infrastructure & Automation

About the role

Career Directions Limited (CDL) is hiring a DevOps Engineer in its Research & Development department in Nairobi. The role bridges development and operations by building, automating and maintaining reliable CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure so that software can be built, tested and released faster, safer and more efficiently.

Key responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (e.g. Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions) and own releases into staging and production, including scheduling, versioning and rollback.
• Provision and manage AWS cloud infrastructure (EC2, S3, RDS, EKS, VPC) using Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, Ansible or CloudFormation.
• Containerize applications and manage orchestration with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Work with development, QA and product teams to streamline coding, testing and release procedures, and embed automated testing and deployment gates in the Agile SDLC.
• Monitor system performance, availability and health with tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, DataDog or CloudWatch, and set up alerting and logging.
• Analyze root causes of production incidents, take part in an on-call rotation and implement lasting fixes.
• Automate repetitive operational tasks and enforce security best practices and compliance (DevSecOps), including SAST/DAST scanning, vulnerability scanning and secrets management.
• Manage Git workflows, optimize cloud infrastructure for performance, scalability and cost, support disaster recovery and backup, document architecture and procedures, and take part in code and infrastructure reviews.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology or a related field.
• 2-3 years of proven experience in a DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering or Infrastructure/Systems Engineering role.
• Hands-on experience building CI/CD pipelines and strong scripting skills (Python, Bash/Shell).
• Willingness to join an on-call rotation and work independently as well as in a team.
• A portfolio of projects, certifications or previous experience is highly desirable.

Required skills

• AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, EKS, VPC); Azure or GCP exposure is a plus.
• Terraform, Ansible or CloudFormation; Docker and Kubernetes.
• Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, DataDog or CloudWatch.
• Git, Linux administration, MySQL, PostgreSQL and MongoDB.
• Networking fundamentals and DevSecOps practices.