The Cloud Native Developer and Security Operations Company.
Senior Platform Engineer
Location
Kenya
Posted
142 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Platform Engineer
Deimos
• Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and resilient platforms. • Treat cloud infrastructure as a product and internal developers as customers. • Build self-service tooling, automated guardrails, and platform experience for engineers. • Automate infrastructure, optimise CI/CD pipelines, and ensure platform reliability and performance. • Drive Platform Engineering best practices, improve developer productivity, and foster operational excellence through infrastructure-as-code and modern tooling. • Kubernetes & Containerisation: Kubernetes, Istio, ArgoCD, Helm & CI/CD for containerised workloads. • Monitoring and Logging: Prometheus, Loki, Grafana & ELK to monitor resources. • Source Control & CI/CD: GitHub & GitHub Actions for version control and CI/CD. • Operating Systems: Ansible and AWS tooling to manage Unix environments. • Backend Development: Hands-on experience designing, developing, and deploying backend services in Java; scripting for ad-hoc problems. • Cloud Infrastructure: AWS/Cloud services and best practices. • Infrastructure as Code: AWS CDK & Terraform to manage infrastructure. • Architecture and Design Patterns: DDD, EDA, distributed computing architecture. • Computer Networking: Core networking concepts including VPCs, Subnets, NAT Gateways, etc. • Database Management: Relational databases (MySQL, SQLite, PostgreSQL), event pipelining using Kafka. • Internal Developer Platform: Build and maintain tooling that reduces cognitive load for product teams.
Job Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering.
- 4+ years of relevant work experience as a Developer building/running Java or C# applications.
- 2+ years deploying, managing, and rightsizing Kubernetes clusters, resources, and underlying infrastructure.
- 2+ years designing and operating public cloud environments.
- Experience using GitOps/CI-CD workflows for infrastructure as code and Helm workload deployments.
- A product mindset for internal tooling: ability to identify developer pain points and build platform solutions that address them at scale.
- Advantageous: experience in Agile/Scrum methodologies and familiarity with the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
Benefits
- Flexibility and the freedom to work remotely.
- Work-life balance where you are not expected to work over weekends or after hours.
- A forward thinking remote company that knows how important it is to stay connected as one team, by providing virtual social platforms for employee engagement.
- A monthly work from home allowance which you can use to set yourself up to work comfortably from home.
- A MacBook or Windows laptop for you to do your best work on.
- Become part of a team of exceptionally clever and talented people who like to share their knowledge and learnings.
- We support your career growth and love to celebrate your successes and advancement!
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