Job Title: DevOps Engineer
Hiring Organization: SunCulture
Location – Locality: Nairobi
Location – Region: Kenya
Industry: Solar
Energy
Job Type: Full
Time
Salary: KES
Competitive
Date Posted: 03/28/2024
Founded
in 2012, SunCulture’s Vision is to build a world where people take control of
their environment in rewarding and sustainable ways. SunCulture does this by
developing and commercialising life changing technology that solves the biggest
daily challenges for the world’s 570 million smallholder farming households. We
are the largest distributor of solar water pumps / solar irrigation for
smallholder farmers in Africa and were selected by Fast Company as one of the
World’s Most Innovative Companies in 2021. Here is a good explainer video
recently made by CNBC. Over the last 5 years the company has grown
significantly and now employs 400+ people around the world.
About the role
The key
responsibilities include planning, executing, and finalizing IT stream
challenges to manage existing or new requirements by Business Users within
agreed deadlines. This includes coordinating with other business units and IT
team members. This role requires you to have sound technical development and
configurations on out of the box platforms which SunCulture can procure to make
IT operations smooth and achieve business goals. You are required to have the
ability to improve and embed system/application/code/security policies and
procedures aimed at evaluating and mitigating potential risks.
Your core
responsibility is to ensure the completion, maintenance, and updating of
SunCulture’s IT systems. This will include identifying, evaluating,
prioritizing, and integrating additional system-related updates. Your role also
includes oversight of internal servers, applications, database, custom code,
application configurations, support, and maintenance, as well as leveraging
such information for business processes and strategic purposes. You are
required to develop relationships with a wide array of stakeholders, produce
periodic reporting, and maintain a sound management information system that
will provide support for developing code, application configuration, database
queries, monitoring tools & processes at SunCulture.
Key
Responsibilities
- Managing
day to day operations of SunCulture’s technology stack
- Managing
new releases and liaising with Business stakeholders to perform QA
activities
- IoT
platform maintenance and configuration
- Third-party
tool configuration
- Be
a strong voice in technical cross-team discussions, includes supporting BI
in daily stand-ups and scoping
- Managing
the Enterprise service desk (ESB)
- Development
of custom code to meet day to day business needs
Does
this sound like you?
- Agile
with the ability to work in a fast-paced tech environment
- Bachelor’s
Degree in Information, Communication and Technology, or equivalent and at
least a Diploma in Analytics
- 2
years + of experience working in a similar field
- Within
the East African time zone by about 2 hrs on either side
- Experience
managing a complex stack of systems
- Experience
using cloud technologies (ideally AWS / Azure)
- Experience
using ESB technologies such as Kafka
- Experience
in IoT platforms is a major plus
- Experience
in software release management and automation
- Strong
eye for quality and experience implementing quality control procedures
- Outstanding
leadership and organizational skills
- Excellent
communication and problem-solving ability
- Solid
experience in directing & managing business user expectations for
multiple tasks spread across multiple applications
- Able
to work in a dynamic environment with immense pressure that requires the
ability to solve problems
- Comfortable
with ambiguity and able to plan, be organized, and adhere to deadlines
- Proactive,
collaborative, organized, curious, problem solver with a “can-do” attitude