Senior Devops Engineer

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. Design, build, and operate secure, scalable, highly available Azure cloud infrastructure .

Posted 9/22/2026full-timeNairobi • KenyaSeniorWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in designing, building, and managing secure Azure cloud infrastructure, with a strong focus on infrastructure-as-code practices and CI/CD pipeline ownership. Proficient in optimizing performance and costs while ensuring compliance and security across deployments.

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Azure Infrastructure ManagementTerraform Module DevelopmentKubernetes (AKS) OperationsCI/CD Pipeline DesignIncident Response Experience

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Hard Skills

AzureAKSTerraformCI/CDMonitoringLoggingScripting (Python, PowerShell, Bash)Cost OptimizationCompliance AutomationInfrastructure-as-Code

Soft Skills

CollaborationProblem-SolvingCommunication

Tools & Technologies

Azure MonitorApplication InsightsLoad BalancersVirtual NetworksStorage Accounts

Industry Keywords

DevOpsPlatform EngineeringIncident ResponseRegulated-Domain SaaS

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AzureCloudKubernetesNode.jsPythonTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design, build, and operate secure, scalable, highly available Azure cloud infrastructure
Design, deploy, and manage Azure infrastructure across AKS, virtual networks, load balancers, storage accounts, Azure Monitor, Application Insights, and IAM
Optimize infrastructure costs, capacity, and performance
Build and maintain Terraform modules under version control
Enforce infrastructure-as-code standards and environment parity across development, QA, and production
Embed compliance into infrastructure-as-code pipelines with security and architecture teams
Operate AKS clusters for production and non-production workloads
Manage container deployments, scaling, rolling upgrades, and resiliency patterns
Troubleshoot cluster, node, pod, and networking issues
Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and application deployment
Automate build, test, release, and rollback processes
Integrate security scans, quality gates, and infrastructure validation into pipelines
Implement monitoring, alerting, and logging
Participate in incident response and root cause analysis
Drive post-incident improvements
Collaborate with Software Engineering, QA, Security, and Architecture teams as a shared owner of production
Participate in an on-call rotation

Requirements

What you’ll need

4+ years of hands-on DevOps or platform engineering
Strong Azure: AKS, virtual networks, load balancers, storage accounts, Azure Monitor, Application Insights, IAM
Terraform building and maintaining your own modules, not only running someone else's
Kubernetes in production, ideally AKS: deployments, scaling, rolling upgrades, resiliency, and real troubleshooting
CI/CD pipeline design and ownership, including automated rollback
Monitoring, alerting, and logging, plus genuine incident response experience
Willingness to participate in an on-call rotation
Collaborative instincts across engineering, QA, security, and architecture
Monday-to-Friday availability from 3:00 PM to 12:00 AM EAT
Nice to have: security scanning and compliance automation in pipelines
Nice to have: cost optimization with measured results
Nice to have: Azure Policy and governance
Nice to have: scripting depth in Python, PowerShell, or Bash
Nice to have: payroll, HCM, or other regulated-domain SaaS experience

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive compensation
Health coverage
Certification and learning support