Lead devops engineer

Job Role: Lead Delivery Engineer (DevOps & CI/CD Leadership)

Exp Required: Atleast 8 +years of relevant work experience as devops engineer or platform engineer

Job Location: Hybrid - Nairobi, Kenya

Company Name: Indsafri

Notice Period: Immediate to 30 days

NOTE:

***********************KINDLY DO NOT APPLY IF YOU HAVE LESS THAN 8 YEARS OF RELEVANT WORK EXP IN DEVOPS/PLATFORM ENGINEER. FRESHERS OR LESS THAN 8 YEARS OF EXP IN DEVOPS/PLATFORM ENGINEER PLEASE DO NOT APPLY *****************

******************WE HIRE ONLY KENYAN CITIZENS, SO OTHER COUNTRY CITIZENS PLEASE DO NOT APPLY**********************

Job Description

We are looking to hire a Lead Delivery Engineer (DevOps & CI/CD Leadership) to join our global team in Technology. This is a challenging, fast-paced and exciting environment, with plenty of opportunities to influence and grow the technology area. This role is critical in shaping and guiding the technical strategy and execution of platform engineering efforts, with a strong focus on modernizing infrastructure, scaling CI/CD capabilities and championing engineering excellence across the organization.

This is a 50/50 technical and managerial role-you will be expected to contribute hands-on in designing and evolving platform solutions, while also leading, mentoring, and managing a high-performing engineering team. Both skill sets are essential for success. The ideal candidate brings deep experience in cloud-native platforms, infrastructure as code and automation-paired with a strong leadership presence and a collaborative DevOps mindset.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Lead and develop a high-performing engineering team by providing mentorship, regular feedback, and growth opportunities—creating a culture of trust, learning, and accountability.

• Act as a people manager, responsible for coaching, career development, performance reviews, and team well-being.

• Drive the design and evolution of scalable delivery platforms and CI/CD pipelines, balancing short-term delivery with long-term technical vision.

• Collaborate closely with Product and Engineering leadership to align platform capabilities with evolving delivery and business needs.

• Own and lead technical initiatives and platform migrations (e.g., Jenkins to GitLab-CI), ensuring timely execution and stakeholder communication.

• Promote and embed operational excellence by leading incident response, postmortems and promoting a culture of reliability.

• Champion developer experience (DevEx) by embedding best practices in platform usability, speed and self-service—while always considering performance, security and capacity.

• Own hiring, onboarding and team capability-building, ensuring the right talent and a smooth ramp-up of new engineers.

• Focus on a metrics- and outcome-driven mindset, leading cost optimization and observability improvements across the stack.

• Be an advocate for non-functional best practices, including logging, monitoring, alerting and performance tuning.

• Partner with senior leadership and cross-functional peers to influence platform strategy and communicate the value of the team's work.

Technical Skills Required (Mandatory):

• Atleast 8+ years of relevant work experience in lead for infrastructure, DevOps or platform engineering roles
• Proven experience leading engineering projects or teams, on the technical and managerial side, as this is a 50/50 role
• Experience with cloud-native platforms (e.g., OCI, GCP) and particularly with Kubernetes (K8S) ecosystems and Linux operating system for effective troubleshooting activities
• Deep demonstrable expertise in the following key platforms and technologies:

• CI/CD tools and deployments best practices (e.g., GitLab CI/CD, FluxCD)

• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Helm, Ansible)

• Kubernetes, Docker Engine, Docker Compose and container orchestration

• Monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK)
• Strong scripting/coding ability (Bash) and in any Programming Language (like Golang)

Other Required Skills And Expectations

• Influential communication, able to clearly articulate technical strategies to both technical and non-technical stakeholders and driving teams towards a

same goal

• Leadership by example which demonstrates constant accountability, integrity and professional posture. Embedding and encouraging a culture of continuous learning, collaboration and improvement

• Team Empowerment and Mentoring, actively supporting the growth of Junior and Mid-level engineers through guidance and feedback (1-on-1s, upskilling

sessions)

• Able to jump on conflict resolution when required, navigating interpersonal conflicts with empathy and objectivity. Promoting a psychologically safe environment where diverse opinions are respected and encouraged

• Strategic thinking and prioritization aligning team efforts through well informed decisions under pressure, balancing long-term vision with possible short-term needs

• Embraces change and leads others through ambiguity and transformation, at the same time that encourages experimentation and innovation while managing risks thoughtfully

• Proven practical emotional intelligence, understanding and respecting our team dynamics and adapting the leadership style accordingly

• Collaboration with cross-functional influence, building trust and credibility across the organization through reliable delivery and efficient partnership activities

Note:

This is a 1 year renewable contract role (Contract can be further extended or renewed based on your performance). Kindly don't apply if you are looking for a part-time, freelancing, and moonlighting jobs. Kindly apply only if you are 100% interested with the job opportunity of renewable contract

Interested candidates can share your updated resume to with below details

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WHY INDSAFRI:

We believe anything is possible We humans have the potential to create and build anything we can imagine. we have walked the entire planet, climbed the greatest mountains, sailed once infinite oceans, inspired by birds we decided to fly, in our once impossible quest for space, now we even float in the outer space. Everything started with a simple belief that something is possible, from simple beginnings, we have come a long way, to building technology that is indistinguishable from magic. And we believe that technology is at its best when it can make people smile. If we do it with all our passion & intelligence, together nothing is impossible. How do we do it? In the future, every business will be a technology company, & the future is now. From food to finance every business is rapidly transforming & embracing cutting-edge technology at its core & good humanistic design at its heart. Indsafri can transform your business for growth, as we have done for numerous organizations big and small, by working as your trusted technology partner and bringing our deep industry experience. If you have a challenging business problem we believe there is always a solution, with the right process, talents & technology anything is possible. The Impact we create: We work with some of the Best Organizations around the world, with a distributed global network of Partners & Talents, using state-of-the-art cutting-edge Technology & High-end Human-Centred Design.

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