Branch International is hiring a
DevOps Engineer in Kenya

Summary

The job is for a DevOps Engineer at Branch International, a global fintech company. The role involves designing, architecting, building, and automating infrastructure for various applications. The company offers a competitive salary, equity package, generous vacation policy, child bonding leave policy, pension benefit, discretionary trips to global offices, flexible working hours, monthly team meals, and social events.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience in DevOps preferred
• Extensive exposure to at least one major cloud platform like AWS, GCP or Azure with commonly used services
• Hands-on experience with deployment and orchestration technologies like Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, and Terraform
• Understand networking concepts and protocols, and the ability to build VPCs and traffic flows
• Ability to take care of monitoring, alerting, logs, user access, certificate and keys management, etc
• Know your way through various flavors of Unix and commonly used command line utilities
• Proficiency with at least one mainstream scripting language like Bash or Python as well as commonly used server software like PostgreSQL, Redis, etc

Responsibilities

• Improve infra automation using modern tools
• Optimize spend and improve elasticity on our infrastructure
• Be responsible for continuously evaluating and implementing evolving best practices
• Keep our systems and services secure by ensuring adherence to security best practices
• Ensure availability with redundancies of all the critical components
• Provide expert opinions for architecture and infrastructure decisions

Preferred Qualifications

Being able to wear a DBA hat and tune PostgreSQL performance at query and storage engine level is a plus

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity package
• A collaborative and flat company culture
• Fully-paid Premium Plan medical coverage
• Generous vacation policy
• Generous child bonding leave policy
• Pension Benefit
• Discretionary trips to our offices across the globe, with global travel medical insurance (when it’s safe to travel!)
• Flexible working hours
• Monthly team meals and social events