Posted:5 hours ago
By:Hiring Kenya
Company Details
Industry:
Information Technology and Services
Description:
Safaricom is the leading provider of converged communication solutions in Kenya. In addition to providing a broad range of first-class products and services for Telephony, Broadband Internet and Financial services, Safaricom seeks to uplift the welfare of Kenyans through value-added services and support for community projects. With over 29 Million subscribers and an estimated market share of 67%, the Company has the widest modern mobile network coverage in Kenya and prides in its experienced shareholders, attractive tariffs, a nationwide network of effective dealers, high caliber staff and management enabling it to maintain its position as the region’s mobile market leader.
Job Description
Responsibilities
- Uphold the company code of conduct, policies and procedures, ensuring integrity and accountability in every aspect of your work.
- All employees have a responsibility to adhere to safety, health, and wellbeing policies, guidelines and procedures in all actions and decisions
- Implement and support SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets for assigned platforms and services.
- Monitor platform health, availability, latency, and error rates and participate in on-call rotations, incident response, and major incident recovery.
- Design and implement end-to-end infrastructure automation across on-premise data centers, private cloud, and public cloud environments. premise data centers, private cloud, and public cloud environments. premise data centers, private cloud, and public cloud environments.
- Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, Ansible, and Helm. Automate infrastructure provisioning, scaling, patching, recovery, and decommissioning.
- Develop scripts and tooling (Bash, Python, PowerShell) to reduce manual operational tasks and contribute to self-healing and auto-remediation workflows.
- Engineer and operate on-premise infrastructure including virtualization, compute, storage, backup, and network platforms. Premise infrastructure premise infrastructure
- Engineer and operate hybrid cloud environments, ensuring seamless integration between data centers and public cloud platforms.
- Engineer and operate infrastructure across AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI under defined enterprise standards.
- Engineer and operate infrastructure across AWS, Azure, GCP, and hybrid platforms.
- Support Kubernetes platforms (EKS/AKS/GKE/OpenShift), including upgrades, scaling, and reliability tuning.
- Support DevSecOps practices by integrating security checks into pipelines.
- Assist with DR/BCP testing, backup validation, and recovery procedures.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related technical field.
- Proven hands-on experience supporting production infrastructure and cloud platforms.
- Strong automation mindset with demonstrated reduction of manual operational tasks.
- Experience working within ITIL / DevOps / SRE operating models.
- Preferred Certifications (Added Advantage)
- Cloud Associate or Professional certifications (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
- Kubernetes certifications (CKA / CKAD).
- Linux certifications (RHCSA / RHCE).
- DevOps or SRE-related certifications.
Salary: Not specified
Otherpay: Benefits
Education: Diploma
Employment Type: Full Time
