Senior Infrastructure Engineer

1 month ago

Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya Angaza Kenya Full time

ABOUT THE COMPANY

ANGAZA KENYA LTD is a social enterprise that was established in 2010 to develop well-engineered technology solutions to improve the human condition on a global scale, with a primary emphasis on applications in the developing world.

JOB SUMMARY

Angaza is hiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer with 5+ years of relevant work experience to be the founding team member of our Infrastructure and Platform team. You will apply your engineering skills to improve our platform's performance, resilience, and security. Your work will empower Angaza's product development engineers to build and scale our application without needing to work across the full infrastructure stack.Candidates must be based in Nairobi, Kenya and work overlapping hours with our U.S. team, 17:00 to 20:30 East Africa Time (UTC+03:00).We're Looking For Someone With...5+ years of experience managing infrastructure on AWS using modern infrastructure-as-code tools such as TerraformSignificant experience with one or more key pieces of our AWS infrastructure, such as ECS/Docker, RDS/Postgres, and AWS network configurationSignificant experience building, deploying, running, monitoring, and debugging Python applications with high uptime requirements, and able to pass a programming interview in PythonExperience managing multiple pre-production environments and owning the CI/CD tooling to automate updates to each environmentExperience building, designing, and testing disaster recovery playbooksExcellent written and verbal communicationEnergy and enthusiasm to contribute to the team and companyExemplifies Angaza's core values of empathy, teamwork, courage, innovation, and impactOur StackBackend: Python with Flask, SQLAlchemy, and CeleryInfrastructure: AWS with PostgreSQL, EC2, Lambda, and friends managed through TerraformFrontend: modern JS with React/ReduxMobile: Android with Kotlin

RESPONSIBILITIES

What You'll Do30 daysUnderstand our infrastructure architecture; how it is deployed, how it scales, how we monitor it, and how it failsRoll out small infrastructure changes such as updating a build script, terraforming a security patch, and creating new metrics or alerts60 daysBecome an incident first responder on our platform incident rotationBegin working on a key infrastructure project, such as migrating compute workloads to Docker, or introducing redundancy at a single point of failure120 days and beyondComplete the roll out of one or more significant projectsBegin to champion the engineering team's processes and practices by creating documentation, contributing to developer tools, and coaching engineers on best practicesTake a leadership role in developing the infrastructure and platform team's roadmap

REQUIRED SKILLS

Verbal communication, Python, AWS (Amazon Web Services), Database query languages (SQL, others)

REQUIRED EDUCATION

Bachelor's degree

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