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Company Details
Industry: Telecommunications
Description: SmartApplications International is a leading ICT solutions provider delivering a wide range of world class technological solutions. Fondly known as Smart within the industry, the company was founded to provide innovative, secure and high-tech solution in Africa and beyond. Staying ahead through constant research and innovation
Job Description

We are looking for a DevOps Engineer to join our Digital Transformation Division and help build and operate secure, scalable, and highly reliable infrastructure for enterprise digital platforms. This role will focus on automating software delivery, strengthening system security, and improving infrastructure reliability across our microservice-based architecture. You will work closely with engineering and security teams to ensure that our platforms are resilient, compliant, and capable of supporting business growth.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines to enable reliable software delivery.
  • Manage containerized environments and orchestration platforms for microservice architectures.
  • Configure and optimize load balancing, reverse proxy, and service traffic routing.
  • Implement secure identity, access management, and secrets management practices.
  • Establish logging, monitoring, alerting, and observability frameworks.
  • Support distributed system components such as messaging platforms, caching layers, and object storage.
  • Strengthen DevSecOps practices, including vulnerability management and infrastructure hardening.
  • Participate in security audits, compliance reviews, and governance processes.
  • Conduct business continuity and disaster recovery simulations.
  • Work closely with engineering teams to resolve deployment and integration challenges.
  • Mentor junior engineers and maintain infrastructure documentation and operational runbooks.

Requirements

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
  • 5+ years of experience in a professional IT environment.
  • 3+ years of experience in DevOps, Cloud, or Infrastructure Engineering.
  • Experience supporting microservice-based systems in production environments.
  • Cloud, Kubernetes, or DevOps certifications are an added advantage.
Salary: Not specified
Otherpay: Benefits
Education: Diploma
Employment Type: Full Time
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