DevOps Engineer at KCB Bank Kenya

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Company Details
Industry: Banking
Description: Kenya Commercial Bank Limited is registered as a non-operating holding company which started operations as a licensed banking institution with effect from January 1, 2016. The holding company oversees KCB Kenya - incorporated with effect from January 1, 2016 - and all KCB's regional units in Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Ethiopia and South Sudan. It also owns KCB Insurance Agency, KCB Capital, KCB Foundation and all associate companies. The holding company was set up to among other things to enhance the Group's capacity to access unrestricted capital and also enable investment in new ventures outside banking regulations, achieve operational and strategic autonomy for the Group's operating entities and enhance corporate governance across the Group and oversight in management of subsidiaries.
Job Description

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: MUST NOT BE MORE THAN 10

  • Develop and maintain Continuous Integration (CI) / Continuous Deployment (CD) strategy that allows the organization to use DevOps at scale.
  • Envision, build and execute automated testing plans for all the software developed in the organization and provide reporting templates for monitoring testing coverage.
  • Contribute in developing best practices for infrastructure as code (e.g: Puppet, Shell scripting), software build tools (Maven, Gradle, etc.) and continuous integration tools (Jenkins, TeamCity, etc.)
  • Mentoring and coaching junior software developers in gaining experience and assuming DevOps responsibilities.
  • Design, build & maintain infrastructure to support a continuous software development process, including all phases of development, QA and software deployment.
  • Provides direction into standards and procedures for monitoring, capacity planning, tuning, maintenance, performance optimization, backups and recovery; ensures infrastructure will meet capacity requirements to deliver on time.
  • Setup/Configuration/Administration of code Repositories like Git, SVN etc.
  • Manage Image storage to ensure consistency and recoverability of the same as required.
  • Development of process and procedures of code versions to ensure proper governance and security is maintained at all times within the enterprise.
  • Acts as a thought leader for DevOps practice in the organization while working with stakeholders to select “fit for purpose tools” to be used in the DevOps orchestration/automation processes.

DAILY RESPONSIBILITIES: NOT MORE THAN 5 OF THE MOST TYPICAL

  • Develop and maintain Continuous Integration (CI) / Continuous Deployment (CD) strategy that allows the organization to use DevOps at scale.
  • Envision and build automated testing plans for all the software developed in the organization and provide reporting templates for monitoring testing coverage.
  • Contribute in developing best practices for infrastructure as code (e.g: Puppet, Shell scripting), software build tools (Maven, Gradle, etc.) and continuous integration tools (Jenkins, TeamCity, etc.)
  • Mentoring junior software developers in gaining experience and assuming DevOps responsibilities.
  • Design, build & maintain infrastructure to support a continuous software development process, including all phases of development, QA and software deployment.
  • Provides direction into standards and procedures for monitoring, capacity planning, tuning, maintenance, performance optimization, backups and recovery; ensures infrastructure will meet capacity requirements to deliver on time.

CHALLENGES

  • The bank has a myriad of diverse systems installed within the organisation running on disparate technologies and thus creates complexity on the correct DevOps tools to be used to support these systems.
  • At the same time, the bank has a large development organisation churning a lot of software code on a weekly basis which is expected to benefit from DevOps to accelerate deployment/release management.

MINIMUM POSITION QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS

Academic & Professional

Education: Bachelor’s Degree — Bachelor’s Degree (RQ)

Professional Qualifications:

  • DevOps tools e.g. Jenkins/Ansible etc.
  • Certification in Cloud technologies e.g AWS, Azure
  • Professional Software development e.g. JAVA, Python etc
  • Azure DevOps (Azure Container Registry, Pipelines, Azure Defender, Azure Boards)
  • GitOps (Argo CD/Flux CD)
  • Service Mesh (Istio, Linkerd, Openshift Service Mesh)
  • Harbor Container Registry, Helm Charts, Contract Testing - Pact Broker, DevSecOps - SAST, DAST - CheckMarx, AKS - Azure Kubernetes Services, EKS - Elastic Kubernetes Services (AWS)
  • Masters: MBA/MSc (AA)

Experience

  • Total Minimum No of Years’ Experience Required: 5 years

Detail:

  • Experience in commercial software development – 3 years (ES)
  • Hands-on knowledge of Configuration Management and Deployment tools like Puppet, Ansible, Chef, Terraform – 3 years (ES)
  • Experience in developing release pipelines – 3 years (ES)
  • Experience with the GIT Ops frameworks – 3 years (ES)
  • Experience in Banking Operations – 1 year (AA)
  • Proficient in scripting – 2 years (AA)
  • Experience working in a fast-paced agile environment – 2 years (AA)
Salary: Outline during the Interview
Education: Diploma
Employment Type: Full Time

Key Skills

ICT  DevOps Engineering 
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