DevOps Engineer
The Position:
The DevOps Engineer works with application developers to automate and accelerate the testing, release, and deployment of applications into a runtime environment quickly and reliably. The DevOps Engineer will have a background in development, operations, and full-stack implementations. The DevOps engineer acts as a fulcrum between development and operational teams, and basically forms the foundation of the entire DevOps environment.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain Continuous Integration (CI) /
Continuous Deployment (CD) strategy that allows the organization to use
DevOps at scale.
- Envision, build, and execute automated testing
plans for all the software developed in the organization and provide
reporting templates for monitoring testing coverage.
- Contribute to developing best practices for
infrastructure as code (such as Puppet, Shell scripting); software build
tools (such as Maven, Gradle, etc.) and continuous integration tools (such
as Jenkins, TeamCity, etc.)
- Mentoring and coaching junior software developers
in gaining experience and assuming DevOps responsibilities.
- Design, build & maintain infrastructure to
support a continuous software development process, including all phases of
development, quality assurance and software deployment.
- Provides direction into standards and procedures
for monitoring, capacity planning, tuning, maintenance, performance
optimization, backups, and recovery; ensures infrastructure will meet
capacity requirements to deliver on time.
- Setup/Configuration/Administration of code
Repositories like Git, SVN
- Manage Image storage to ensure consistency and
recoverability of the same as required.
- Development of process and procedures of code
versions to ensure proper governance and security is always maintained
within the enterprise.
- Acts as a thought leader for DevOps practice in
the organization while working with stakeholders to select “fit for
purpose tools” to be used in the DevOps
orchestration/automation processes.
Qualifications
For the above position,
the successful applicant should have the following:
- Bachelor’s degree from a recognized university.
- Certification in cloud technologies such as
Kubernetes, OpenShift or related.
- Use of DevOps tools such as Jenkins, Ansible or
similar and professional software development using JAVA, Python etc is
required.
- 3 years’ experience in commercial software
development with at least 2 years’ experience in developing release
pipelines and GitOps frameworks.
- Proficient in scripting.
- Hands-on knowledge of configuration management and
deployment tools like Puppet, Ansible, Chef, Terraform.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
How to Apply
The above
position is demanding role for which the Bank will provide a competitive
remuneration package to the successful candidate. If you believe you can clearly
demonstrate your abilities to meet the criteria given above, please log in to
our Recruitment portal and submit your application with a detailed CV.
To be considered your
application must be received by
Friday, 12th November 2021.
Qualified candidates
with disability are encouraged to apply.
Only short-listed
candidates will be contacted.
Programme Manager 2jiajiri
The Position:
KCB Foundation directs
the delivery of corporate citizenship responsibilities on behalf of the KCB
Group. Over the past 7 years, the KCB Foundation has supported grassroots
communities in Kenya to prioritize education, grow small enterprises, improve
health status, protect the environment, and access humanitarian aid. Financial
support for these programmes is provided primarily by KCB which commits 1% of
its pre-tax profits to support community development. To guarantee optimum
impact for communities involved in its programmes, the KCB Foundation forges
strategic partnerships, deploys appropriate expertise, and tracks results on a
continuous basis.
The job holder is
responsible for 2jiajiri program management (beneficiary mobilization, business
development and linkages and access to finance), work planning and budget
management as well as partnerships management at a program level.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, plan, and manage the 2jiajiri Programme
(Phase I and II) and all related projects and activities.
- Manage the beneficiaries, institutions, and
partners on-boarding process.
- Monitor the beneficiary/customer journey and
experience with active direct engagement with beneficiaries to monitor
progress and identify emerging issues.
- Monitor performance of beneficiaries under the
Phase II BDS Services, including performance of loans and quality of
business development plans.
- Build partnerships with stakeholders in public and
private sector for enhanced efficiency and effectiveness of the
programmes.
- Oversight of financial planning, management, and
control of programme budget.
- Develop, organize, and implement staff engagement
opportunities in the programmes
- Manage the communication process and methods and
channels required to deliver the programme components and to ensure
stakeholders including private sector, governments and the beneficiaries
are well informed and emerging programmatic issues resolved.
- Conduct project proposal reviews and project
assessment and provide feedback to grant applicants.
- Work with MEL team to conduct monitoring and
evaluation (programmatic and financials) of projects to demonstrate and
track impact and generate pertinent reports.
- Organize and manage project commissioning events.
- Manage relationships with grantees and other
stakeholders.
- Work plan and resource management.
- Work with partnerships and communications and
policy and advocacy to shape opinion and share.
Qualifications
For the above position,
the successful applicant should have the following:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Business/ Education/
Community Development/ Strategic Management or related field from a
recognized institution.
- Certification in Project Management.
- 5 years’ experience in in Business Development
with experience in Bank Lending and Credit Management in a financial
services sector.
- At least 4 years in Programme/ Project Management
with experience in community mobilization & stakeholder engagement.
- Experience in Donor Partnerships Management.
- Exceptional Relationship and People Management
Skills with ability to liaise with diverse stakeholders.
How to Apply
The above
position is demanding role for which the Bank will provide a competitive
remuneration package to the successful candidate. If you believe you can
clearly demonstrate your abilities to meet the criteria given above, please log
in to our Recruitment portal and submit your application with a detailed CV.
To be considered your
application must be received by
Friday, 12th November 2021.
Qualified candidates
with disability are encouraged to apply.
Only short-listed candidates
will be contacted.
Hardware Engineer
The Position:
Technology
Infrastructure department oversees planning, deployment and operation of
state-of-the-art infrastructure services that include server, storage, network,
databases, and Cloud that support mission critical services for the Bank.
The position holder will
provide primary support for systems infrastructure (Server, Storage, Operating
Systems and Virtualization). The job holder will also be responsible for
ensuring all required security controls and audit remediation is done for the
responsible infrastructure.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for systems support including but not
limited to availability, performance and reliability of all on-premise IT
systems infrastructure.
- Responsible for infrastructure optimization of all
IT infrastructure to ensure optimal infrastructure performance.
- Administration duties including Windows Active
Directory object maintenance, complex troubleshooting and repair tasks on
Active Directory, Windows Server 2008-2019, Domain Controllers, DNS, user
authentication and other operational systems as needed.
- Implementation tools to aid in improving operation
efficiencies in monitoring and infrastructure management.
- Automation of Directory Services to provide Identity
Management and User/Group management tools utilizing Active Directory as
the backbone for the Identity Access Management implementation.
- Establishes service specifications to other
systems including permissions modification, deletion, role definitions,
reclassification and other similar access management related functions.
- Service Quality Management: Ensure IT and
Infrastructure platforms perform within or exceed KPIs, ensure ability of
the system to support specific forms of traffic, and to support end user
experience.
- Resolve faults on all systems deployed for IT
infrastructure platforms.
- Implements best practice security measures to
ensure the integrity and continuity of systems services and information
and continiousl monitor security compliance.
Qualifications
For the above position,
the successful applicant should have the following:
- Bachelor’s degree in ICT or Electrical Engineering
or related field.
- Certification in VMware (VCP), Microsoft /Linux
Professional certification in systems.
- 3 years Technology experience with experience in:
- Operating Systems Administration in Linux and
Windows.
- Storage Administrations.
- Virtualization administration on VMware.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
How to Apply
The above
position is demanding role for which the Bank will provide a competitive
remuneration package to the successful candidate. If you believe you can
clearly demonstrate your abilities to meet the criteria given above, please log
in to our Recruitment portal and submit your application with a detailed CV.
To be considered your
application must be received by
Friday, 12th November 2021.
Qualified candidates
with disability are encouraged to apply.
Only short-listed
candidates will be contacted.