Senior DevOps Engineer at Moove Africa

Key Responsibilities

• Building, enhancing and maintaining cloud infrastructure in a complex ecosystem made of dozens of services.
• Building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and automation according to the company standards.
• Consulting architectures and operational requirements with engineering teams..
• Contributing expertise on information system options, risk, and operational impact.
• Mentoring and advising software developers on cloud infrastructure topics.
• Contributing to the DevOps culture by organising knowledge transfer and pair review sessions.
• Researching new technologies and building proof of concepts.
• Conforming to best practices in network administration and cybersecurity.

Key Requirements

• 6+ years of overall development experience.
• Hands-on experience with building infrastructure using IaC tools (solid knowledge of Terraform is a must).
• Strong experience in building CI/CD pipelines and automation (CircleCI).
• Outstanding knowledge of key AWS services and their features (VPC, EC2, ECS, Lambda, RDS, S3, SNS, SQS, Cognito, Route53, IAM, Cloudwatch).
• Solid knowledge of other AWS services.
• Knowledge of Docker and its best practices.
• Practical knowledge of Serverless Framework
• Good knowledge of Javascript/Typescript/Node.js, Java or Python ecosystems (frameworks, configuration management).
• Hands-on experience with at least one programming language (Python or Javascript preferred).
• Experience with Relational and NoSQL databases (Postgres, DynamoDB).
• Solid experience of building infrastructure for distributed architectures (Microservices, Event-Driven).
• Excellent knowledge of Monitoring & Observability tools and practices (NewRelic, Prometheus, Grafana).
• Ability to mentor team members while providing feedback and guidance.
• Great Communicator and Team player: Ability to work independently and within a team on assigned tasks while keeping stakeholders informed of progress, setbacks, and updated timelines.
• Excellent Documentation skills.

Preferred Requirements

• Software development background.
• Knowledge and hands-on experience with other public cloud providers (GCP, Azure).
• Working experience with Kubernetes.
• Working knowledge of tools such as Jira and Confluence.