Senior DevOps Engineer

Who are we

We are Juakali a FinTech startup providing a platform for the microfinance lending market. Juakali empowers Financial Institutions with seamless flexible and powerful tools designed to boost their productivity. 100% bankgrade bestofbreed technology.

Although we are a small startup we are already global our people work from all around the world. In 5 years we have employees and customers in more than 10 countries in Africa and Asia. Our teams are remote working from wherever they are. It gives our people freedom; we only ask them to be responsible.

You can work from anywhere you like as well as long as you have an internet connection our office is located in Slack.

What role will you play

*Maintain the existing platform developed in Java/Spring Boot and hosted in the Google Cloud Platform

*Make continuous improvements to the infrastructure to increase the platforms resilience and scalability

*Automate the infrastructure using Pulumi our IaC technology of choice

*Participate in discussions related to architectural decisions from the DevOps perspective

*Design and maintain policies and best practices around infrastructure management

*Select appropriate technical options for development such as reusing improving or reconfiguration existing components.

*You will coordinate with the rest of the team working on different layers of the infrastructure and therefore a commitment to collaborative problemsolving sophisticated design and quality is important.

What are we looking for

• At least 3 years of experience working with GCP
• Solid knowledge and understanding of the core GCP products
• Familiarity with deploying and managing microservices developed in Java/Kotlin is an advantage
• Experience maintaining RESTful API endpoints is an advantage
• Handson experience and good understanding of Pulumi
• Experience writing Pulumi scripts in TypeScript is an advantage

Why us

Fast learning environment within a team of cheerful passionate talented people.

Opportunity to interact and work with international people from all over the globe.

You will find it easy to keep a good worklife balance.

You will be closely working with industry experts to have a positive impact on the business of our customers.

Opportunity to drive transformation in one of the fastest growing industries.

The local contract includes a pension fund and health insurance for you and your family.