Job description
We are motivated by an ambitious purpose and inspired by the exceptional people that we work with and we are looking for a Systems Development Engineer to join our Engineering team. This position will be based in Nairobi and will report to the Systems Development Team Lead.
Job Purpose
The role will help scale and automate our financial services platform as the organization grows across regions worldwide.
Key Responsibilities
Developing, managing and troubleshooting JUMO’s production and environments hosted in AWS
Building and maintaining secure communication infrastructure to JUMO’s partners
Identifying and implementing tooling to support JUMO’s development team and production environment
Identifying, architecting, developing, automating, and refining processes to allow Jumo to run a highly reliable system in AWS
Develop monitoring and reporting for JUMO’s infrastructure
Collaborate with engineering to optimise the database infrastructure
Documenting operational procedures and best practice system behaviors
Capabilities
Be highly innovative, flexible and self-directed
Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and management to collect requirements
Experience mentoring Juniors
Good oral and written communication skills
Key Requirements
5+ years experience in scripting
5+ years unix systems administration experience
3+ years experience with MySQL or PostgreSQL
3+ year’s experience with major cloud environments such as Amazon or Azure (Amazon preferred)
1+ years experience with IP networking and network equipment
Experience with high volume, highly available systems
Experience with CI tools such as Jenkins or CircleCI
Experience with Agile (Scrum or Kanban) and Lean methodologies
