Senior DevOps Engineer
Absa Group · Kenya
Financial Services · 10,001+ employees
About the role
The role involves designing, implementing, and maintaining enterprise DevOps platforms, automation frameworks, and cloud-native delivery pipelines. You will also be responsible for ensuring platform reliability, security, and scalability while enabling developer productivity through self-service tooling.
What they look for
Requirements
Candidates must hold a bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field. A minimum of 5-8 years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Cloud Engineering is required, along with proficiency in CI/CD, Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes.
Full description
Empowering Africa’s tomorrow, together…one story at a time.
With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.
My Career Development Portal: Wherever you are in your career, we are here for you. Design your future. Discover leading-edge guidance, tools and support to unlock your potential. You are Absa. You are possibility.
Job Summary
Design, implement, and support enterprise DevOps platforms, automation frameworks, and cloud-native delivery pipelines that enable secure, scalable, and reliable software delivery.
Job Description
Key Focus Areas
- Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines.
- Automate infrastructure provisioning and deployments.
- Support cloud-native platforms and container orchestration.
- Implement Infrastructure as Code solutions.
- Enhance reliability through monitoring and observability.
- Enable developer productivity through self-service tooling.
- Implement DevSecOps controls throughout the SDLC.
Strategy Execution
- Support DevOps and DevSecOps strategies aligned to enterprise objectives.
- Contribute to adoption of modern engineering and automation practices.
Customer Primacy
- Ensure platform services meet availability and reliability standards.
- Enable faster delivery of customer-facing capabilities.
Sustainable Growth
- Automate operational tasks and optimize platform scalability.
- Support cloud adoption and modernization initiatives.
Innovation and Continuous Improvement
- Drive Infrastructure as Code and GitOps adoption.
- Evaluate emerging DevOps tools and technologies.
Collaboration and Team Enablement
- Partner with engineering and security teams.
- Provide technical guidance and knowledge sharing.
Operational Effectiveness
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines.
- Manage Kubernetes and container platforms.
- Implement monitoring and observability solutions.
Digital Adoption
- Promote DevOps tools, automation and platform standardization.
Governance, Risk and Compliance
- Embed security controls into delivery processes.
- Ensure compliance with enterprise standards.
Data and Observability
- Implement logging, monitoring, tracing and dashboards.
Stakeholder Management
- Collaborate with developers, architects and business stakeholders.
Qualifications and Experience
Education / Qualification
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Software Engineering or related discipline.
- Industry certifications advantageous: Azure DevOps Engineer, AWS DevOps Engineer, CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator), RHCE (Red Hat Certified Engineer), Terraform Associate.
Work Experience
- 5-8 years experience in DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering or Cloud Engineering.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, cloud platforms, Terraform, Docker and Kubernetes.
- Experience implementing monitoring, logging and observability solutions.
Knowledge and Skills
DevOps, DevSecOps, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, Kubernetes, Docker, Cloud Platforms, GitOps, Automation, Monitoring, Security Automation, Networking, Agile Methodologies.
Education
Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology
