Senior Platform Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Kenya.

📋 Description

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable, secure, and robust platforms.

• Approach cloud infrastructure as a product, considering internal developers as customers.

• Create self-service tools, automated guardrails, and enhance platform experience for engineers.

• Automate infrastructure processes, optimize CI/CD pipelines, and ensure platform reliability and performance.

• Promote best practices in Platform Engineering, enhance developer productivity, and encourage operational excellence through infrastructure-as-code and modern tools.

• Kubernetes & Containerization: Proficient in Kubernetes, Istio, ArgoCD, Helm & CI/CD for containerized workloads.

• Monitoring and Logging: Utilize Prometheus, Loki, Grafana & ELK for resource monitoring.

• Source Control & CI/CD: Use GitHub & GitHub Actions for version control and CI/CD processes.

• Operating Systems: Manage Unix environments using Ansible and AWS tooling.

• Backend Development: Practical experience in designing, developing, and deploying backend services in Java; scripting for immediate issues.

• Cloud Infrastructure: Knowledge of AWS/Cloud services and industry best practices.

• Infrastructure as Code: Employ AWS CDK & Terraform for infrastructure management.

• Architecture and Design Patterns: Familiar with DDD, EDA, and distributed computing architecture.

• Computer Networking: Understanding of core networking concepts including VPCs, Subnets, NAT Gateways, etc.

• Database Management: Experience with relational databases (MySQL, SQLite, PostgreSQL) and event streaming using Kafka.

• Internal Developer Platform: Develop and sustain tools that minimize cognitive load for product teams.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering.

• Over 4 years of relevant experience as a Developer in building/running Java or C# applications.

• At least 2 years of experience deploying, managing, and rightsizing Kubernetes clusters, resources, and underlying infrastructure.

• Minimum of 2 years designing and operating public cloud environments.

• Familiarity with GitOps/CI-CD workflows for infrastructure as code and Helm workload deployments.

• A product-oriented mindset for internal tooling: capacity to identify developer pain points and create platform solutions that effectively address them at scale.

• Preferred: experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies and knowledge of the AWS Well-Architected Framework.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexibility and the option to work remotely.

• Work-life balance that does not require weekend or after-hours work.

• A progressive remote company that values team connectivity, providing virtual social platforms for employee engagement.

• A monthly work-from-home allowance to help you create a comfortable home office setup.

• A MacBook or Windows laptop to enable you to perform at your best.

• Join a team of exceptionally talented individuals who enjoy sharing their knowledge and experiences.

• We are committed to your career development and love to celebrate your achievements and progression!