Platform Engineer – Container Platforms Planning

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 sup… 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. View more View less
Job Details
Job Type: Full Time
Workplace Type: On-site
Qualification: Diploma
Job Experience: Mandatory
Job Location: Nairobi County, Kenya
Closing Date: Undisclosed
Salary: Undisclosed
Other Pay: Benefits
Job Category: Engineering
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
  • Agile practices and ways of working, including the use of tools such as Jira & Confluence  
  • Sharing expertise with Squad members and working cross-functionally to advance the work of the Squad
  • Responsible for building, maintaining and supporting high-performance, fault-tolerant, scalable and distributed Platform as a Service systems.
  • Responsible for interfacing with application development teams to ensure applications fit within the infrastructure with scalability, reliability and security designed and implemented from the onset.  
  • Work as a Squad Member in the domain of expertise, helping to advance the work and using the experience to maximize Squad performance
  • Responsible for establishing and improving team processes and workflows to maximize efficiency and productivity of people  and systems.  
  • Responsible for reviewing  cloud technologies and defining digital transformation models and roadmaps.
  • Lead in automation of infrastructure at massive scale to support scaling of digital services.
  • Professional experience in building robust data pipelines using ETL tools
  • Ensure container management platforms perform within or exceed KPIs, ensure ability of the system to support specific forms of traffic, and to support end user experience. The same should be tracked using SLAs.
  • Resolve faults on all systems deployed for containers and container management platforms.
  • Escalate to supplier if needed and follow up until resolution
  • Quick Turnaround time to resolve emerging threats / issues
  • Develop & utilize new products & service acceptance criteria. Active participation in the section to enable team meet sectional and departmental Goals and objectives.  
  • Operate within approved CAPEX & OPEX expenditure for the section to meet sectional objectives. 

Qualifications

  • BSc Degree in computer science, IT or engineering.
  • 3+ years' experience working with RedHat OpenShift Infrastructure design, deployment and operational support
  • Extensive knowledge of Linux Containers (Docker), Kubernetes, and deployment of containerized applications/microservices architectures
  • Experience with Container/PaaS orchestration/management platforms such as Kubernetes, OpenShift, CloudFoundry.
  • Extensive knowledge of enterprise Linux Server Operating Systems such as RHEL/ CentOS, Ubuntu.
  • Experience with Configuration Management eg Chef, Ansible, Terraform.
  • Deep conceptual and applied understanding of DevOps concepts, tools, and practices
  • Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools such as Git, Jenkins, Nexus, Tekton or comparable substitutes
  • Good understanding of build tools, CI/CD, Devops and Agile principles.
  • Cloud knowledge and integration models. 
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