DevOps Engineer
Orchid HR · Nairobi
Job description
About the role
Our client, a technology solutions provider building customer experience software platforms, is seeking a DevOps Engineer to bridge development and operations. You will design, automate, and maintain CI/CD pipelines and cloud infrastructure to enable faster, safer software releases.
Key responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, or GitHub Actions.
- Provision, configure, and manage AWS infrastructure with Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation.
- Containerize applications and manage orchestration with Docker and Kubernetes.
- Monitor system performance with Prometheus, Grafana, DataDog, or CloudWatch and set up alerting.
- Implement security best practices, including SAST/DAST, container vulnerability scanning, and secrets management.
- Participate in on‑call rotation, incident root‑cause analysis, and disaster‑recovery processes.
Required profile
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, IT or related field.
- 2–3 years of proven experience in DevOps, SRE, or Infrastructure Engineering.
- Strong problem‑solving, analytical, and teamwork skills.
- Willingness to work independently and take ownership of production stability.
Required skills
- CI/CD tools: Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions.
- Cloud platforms: AWS (experience with Azure or GCP a plus).
- IaC: Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation.
- Containers & orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes.
- Scripting: Python, Bash/Shell.
- Linux system administration.
- Monitoring: Prometheus, Grafana, DataDog, CloudWatch.
- Security tools: SonarQube, OWASP ZAP, Trivy, Aqua, HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager.
- Version control: Git.
- Databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB.
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