Senior DevOps Engineer at Okra

The role

It's an amazing time to join Okra. We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our Cloud Infrastructure to build out the platform tooling and automation that our systems are scaling on.

As a senior engineer in the team, you will lead key initiatives around observability, infrastructure as code, multi-cloud, automation, and developer experience, as well as newly growing efforts in security, compliance, and platform availability.

You offer a breadth of experience in adopting cloud infrastructure, working across multiple cloud providers with a strong conviction to offer top developer experience, while you have a depth of expertise in one of the team's key areas at a level that sets the standard for the entire team.

Okra brings multiple years of experience in the African ecosystem, a diverse team working across continents, and a culture that puts customer focus, trust, idea-meritocracy and world-class execution front and center. You will own key initiatives, interact across teams, and see your impact.

What you will do:

• Automate infrastructure provisioning
• Maintain and optimize existing systems for performance and cost
• Implement and extend monitoring and alerting systems
• Improve developer experience of our infrastructure as code approach
• Help abstract complexities of cloud vendors and work across multi-cloud
• Help product engineering teams adopt DevOps culture
• Work with other teams to understand their needs and find solutions
• Help the team set ongoing goals and build roadmaps to achieve them
• Help automate quality checks to ensure engineering standards
• Explore and own new responsibility areas for the team

What will help you succeed:

• Multiple years of experience as a DevOps Engineers
• Hands-on experience with Terraform
• Experience optimizing CI/CD pipelines and managing multiple environments
• Experience working in environments with strict security and compliance requirements
• Enjoying solving problems that have no direct or obvious solution.
• Strong skills in troubleshooting and debugging in complex systems
• Ability to collaborate with both business and technical partners
• Strong experience using AWS services such as EC2, S3, Redshift
• Good understanding of Okra's current workloads that run stacks of Node.js, React, MongoDB, Kafka, Puppeteer, Docker, and Socket.io

Nice to have:

• Experience with trunk-based development infrastructure
• Experience building out continuous delivery pipelines
• Applied understanding of secure-by-design approach
• Hands-on experience with developer productivity tooling and automations