Posted:7 hours ago
By:Hiring Kenya
Company Details
Industry:
Information Technology and Services
Description:
Cellulant is a digital payments business. We run an ecosystem of consumers, merchants and banks in which we facilitate payments and build value through the value-added services we layer on top. In building this ecosystem we serve different types of customers with different products, in a range that includes mobile banking products, mobile credit products, USSD, SMS, and digital content. We are currently serving merchants and banks across 10 countries, and a wide set of industries
Job Description
- Hybrid Architecture Design: Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and optimize the organization's cloud infrastructure to ensure alignment with business goals and industry best practices.
- Internal Application Deployment Support: Lead and assist in deploying applications on hybrid cloud platforms, ensuring scalability, performance, and security while providing expertise and guidance to crossfunctional teams on application deployments.
- Hybrid Architecture Design: Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and optimize the organization's cloud infrastructure to ensure alignment with business goals and industry best practices.
- On-Prem Server Infrastructure and Network Support: Manage and support on-premises server and network infrastructure, including physical and virtual servers, routers and switches and firewalls . Ensure the stability and security of on-premises resources integrating them with cloud services when necessary.
- Cloud Platform Management: Oversee the management of cloud and cloud network resources, including configuring, monitoring, and optimizing the cloud platform to ensure high availability, scalability, and security of services.
- Automation Pipeline Development: Design and implement automation pipelines for cloud services, leveraging tools like Ansible, Terraform, or custom scripting to streamline cloud infrastructure management, reduce manual tasks, and improve efficiency.
- Incident Response: Act as a 2nd and 3rd level responder for infrastructure-related incidents. Conduct in-depth troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and implement corrective actions to minimize downtime.
- Customer Network Integration: Act as the primary point of contact for customer network-related integration, ensuring that external systems and networks seamlessly integrate with our organization's network infrastructure.
- Compliance Support: Assist in ISO audits, PCI/DSS audits, and other compliance assessments. Ensure cloud infrastructure aligns with regulatory and security standards, implementing necessary controls.
Key Relationships: Peers- Mid- Senior level Cloud Engineers, Network Engineers, Information Security Engineers, Software Developers and Project Managers.
QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE:
Qualification:
- Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in an IT-related discipline.
- Minimum 4 years Experience as an Infrastructure/Cloud Engineer.
- Experience in Enterprise Systems and/or Network.
- Minimum 2 years of previous experience with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) across hybrid environments
- Minimum 2 years of previous experience deploying and automating infrastructure in public cloud environments, using Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, Ansible)
- Experience with programming/scripting languages (Python, Bash).
- Significant experience deploying infrastructure on public cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure, Rackspace).
Must have experience:
- Minimum 4 years Experience as an Infrastructure/Cloud Engineer.
- Experience in Enterprise Systems and/or Networks.
- Minimum 2 years of previous experience with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) across hybrid environments.
- Minimum 2 years of previous experience deploying and automating infrastructure in public cloud environments, using Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, Ansible).
- Experience with programming/scripting languages (Python, Bash).
- Significant experience deploying infrastructure on public cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure, Rackspace).
Experience that will count in your favor:
- Having worked on migration projects.
- Having worked within the Financial Services Sector within an organization that is PCI or ISO certified.
- Having worked for an Infrastructure provider.
Nice to have experience:
- Being interested and able to grow in developing architectural designs, scripting, automated IT infrastructure systems and learning platform area elements, and enhanced configuration management systems, e.g. Ansible, Chef, Puppet.
- Working experience with Multi-cloud deployments.
- Working knowledge of virtualized environments such as VMware vSphere, KVM, and Citrix XenServer.
- Working knowledge of backup technologies (Veaam, Comvault, etc).
- Working knowledge of Hardware and Datacenter technologies, with an interest in optimizing architectural patterns.
- Strong interest in learning the latest automation tools.
- A desire to be part of an advanced team.
- Interest and motivation to document key points of design and operational practices, working within existing team approaches.
SKILLS:
- Experience with Virtualization platforms (KVM, VMware or HyperV).
- Minimum 2 years of previous experience with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Minimum 2 years of previous experience deploying and automating infrastructure in public cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure, Rackspace), using Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, Ansible).
- Experience with programming/scripting languages (Python, Bash).
- Proven experience building highly available infrastructure.
- A solid understanding of Internet-based technologies (TCP/IP, DNS, Security, HTTP/HTTPS).
- Experience with Relational Databases (MS SQL, Mysql).
- Experience with automated systems, scripting, and software development disciplines.
- Experience migrating services across different environments (On-premise to Cloud/Hybrid Cloud).
- Practical Knowledge of security approaches within cloud and data center infrastructure.
Personal attributes:
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Problem-solving skills.
- Proficiency in a coding language.
- Ability to work under minimal supervision.
Education: Degree, Diploma
Employment Type: Full Time