DevOps Engineer - 3

Airtel Africa; London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Airtel Africa seeks a Senior DevOps Engineer in London to enhance infrastructure and deploy secure services. You will leverage your extensive experience in AWS, database management, and operational efficiencies to lead technical projects and partner with engineering teams globally. This role requires strong problem-solving skills, adaptability, and a commitment to continuous learning in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional experience in DevOps.
• Deep experience administering AWS-based services.
• Strong knowledge of core CS concepts and database management.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop secure, available, and performant services.
• Own operational aspects of persistent storage.
• Drive solutions for production-impacting incidents.

Skills

Python

Bash

AWS

PostgreSQL

Redis

Elasticache

Docker

Terraform

Security protocols

Debugging

Education

Bachelor's or advanced degree in Computer Science

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Job description

Responsibilities:

• Design and develop solutions for deploying highly secure, highly available, performant, and scalable services in elastically provisioned environments.
• Design and maintain persistent storage solutions in our infrastructure.
• Own all operational aspects of running persistent storage, including automation, monitoring, alerting, reliability, and performance.
• Have a direct impact on running a business by thinking about innovative solutions to operational problems.
• Drive solutions and communication for production-impacting incidents.
• Running technical projects and being responsible for project-level deliveries.
• Partner well with engineering and business teams across continents.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's or advanced degree in Computer Science or a closely related field.
• 7+ years of professional experience in DevOps, with at least 1/2 years in Linux / Unix.
• Very strong in core CS concepts around operating systems, networks, and systems architecture, including web services.
• Strong scripting experience in Python and Bash.
• Deep experience administering, running, and deploying AWS-based services.
• Strong knowledge of PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticache (OpenSearch), Neptune internals, performance tuning, query optimization, and indexing strategies.
• Experience with Aurora, Redis, Elasticache, Neptune architecture, including replication, failover, and backup/restore mechanisms.
• Familiarity with AWS services commonly used with the above services (e. g., RDS, CloudWatch, IAM, VPC, Lambda).
• Experience with high availability and disaster recovery solutions like Aurora, OpenSearch, Neptune, and Redis.
• Experience with database migration tools like AWS DMS or logical replication.
• Solid experience with Terraform, Packer, and Docker or their equivalents.
• Knowledge of security protocols and certificate infrastructure.
• Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
• Broad experience with cloud-hosted applications, including virtualization platforms, relational and non-relational data stores, reverse proxies, and orchestration platforms.
• Curiosity, continuous learning, and a drive to continually raise the bar.
• Strong partnering and communication skills.

Great to have Experience and Qualifications:

• Experience as a senior developer or application architect is strongly preferred.
• Experience working with, and preferably designing, a system compliant with any security framework (PCI DSS, ISO 27000 HIPAA, SOC 2).

Key Characteristics and Attitudes:

• In a recent global survey, these attributes were valued in all locations and functions - we firmly believe in hiring for attitude as well as skill.
• Friendly and supportive.
• Adaptable and flexible.
• Articulate and persuasive.
• High IQ and EQ.
• Curious and coachable.
• Commercially Aware.
• Resilient and tenacious.
• Big picture and the detail.