Objectives

• Support the development, deployment, and operation of our software in AWS (Amazon Web Services) enabling frequent, secure, and reliable release of software to production.
• Support our developers to deliver excellent software by providing the tools, environments, source control, and automated testing and deployment that they need.

Scope

The full set of our bespoke software in development, test and production environments for our businesses in Kenya and Tanzania.

Responsibilities:

• Automate and run the build, test, and deployment of our software in AWS
• Build and maintain tools, solutions and microservices associated with deployment of our platform.
• Manage code deployments, fixes, updates, and related processes.
• Enable continuous development and integration (CI/CD) and support developers to use the CI/CD pipeline.
• Implement monitoring tools to detect issues, measure performance and provide telemetry for developers.
• Develop operational dashboards and alarms.
• Monitor performance and capacity and introduce solutions to maintain service levels.
• Actively troubleshoot any issues that arise during testing and catch and solve issues before release
• Ensure security good practice is followed in deployment and operations.
• Assist in establishing DevOps practices

Other

• The DevOps engineer will be working as part of a distributed team with colleagues in Kenya, Tanzania, China, UK, USA and elsewhere.
• KopaTechnology delivers a 24hour service to customers. The DevOps Engineer may be required to work overnight and weekends to resolve urgent technical incidents or to make changes at a time that causes least disruption to customers.