Senior Digital Engineer
- Hiring from
- Kenya
- Work type
- Remote
- Posted
- Oct 3, 2026
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Job Title: Cloud Engineer
Key Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
- Design, implement and maintain secure, scalable and highly available cloud infrastructure on AWS.
- Create and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform and industry best practices.
- Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration management and deployment processes.
- Drive DevOps culture and automation across development and operations teams.
- Design, implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines to enable reliable and frequent releases.
- Collaborate with Software Engineers, Technical Leads and Architects to define cloud-native solutions and deployment strategies.
- Implement and maintain monitoring, observability, alerting and logging solutions across all environments.
- Ensure platform reliability, performance, scalability and operational excellence.
- Support incident management, root cause analysis and continuous improvement activities.
- Implement and maintain cloud security best practices including IAM, network security, secrets management and compliance controls.
- Optimise cloud resource utilisation and contribute to FinOps initiatives to improve cost efficiency.
- Define and document cloud architecture, technical designs, operational procedures and runbooks.
- Collaborate with product and engineering teams to ensure environments are aligned with delivery needs.
- Contribute to platform standardisation, reusable tooling and engineering governance initiatives.
- Foster a culture of continuous learning through knowledge sharing, workshops and technical mentoring.
- Delivery. Build and maintain reliable cloud platforms according to engineering standards.
- Code Quality. Follow and improve Infrastructure as Code and automation standards.
- Analyse & Estimate. Assess infrastructure requirements, technical risks and implementation effort.
- Software & Infrastructure Design. Create and review cloud architecture designs and infrastructure solutions.
- Strong experience with AWS services including EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda, API Gateway, CloudFront, Route53, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, IAM, Secrets Manager, KMS, CloudWatch and Systems Manager (SSM).
- Strong experience designing, implementing and operating cloud-native architectures on AWS.
- Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, reusable modules and infrastructure automation.
- Strong experience with containerisation technologies including Docker and Kubernetes.
- Strong experience implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins or similar platforms.
- Strong experience with source control management and Git-based development workflows.
- Strong experience with observability platforms including CloudWatch, Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk and ELK.
- Strong experience with monitoring, alerting, log aggregation, distributed tracing and application performance monitoring.
- Strong experience implementing operational excellence practices including SLI, SLO and SLA management.
- Strong experience troubleshooting production incidents, performing root cause analysis and driving preventative measures.
- Good experience with Linux administration, networking and system troubleshooting.
- Good experience with networking concepts including DNS, TCP/IP, VPN, CDN, Load Balancers, Reverse Proxies and TLS/SSL certificates.
- Good experience with AWS networking services including VPC, Transit Gateway, Security Groups, Network ACLs, Route Tables, NAT Gateways and PrivateLink.
- Good experience developing automation solutions using Python, Bash or similar technologies.
- Strong knowledge of cloud security best practices including IAM, RBAC, least-privilege access, encryption, secrets management and vulnerability remediation.
- Strong experience with AWS Security Hub, compliance frameworks and security remediation activities.
- Experience implementing DevSecOps practices and integrating automated security controls into CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience evaluating and integrating cloud security tooling for vulnerability assessments, penetration testing and threat modelling.
- Experience supporting microservices and distributed architectures in production environments.
- Experience implementing high-availability, disaster recovery and business continuity solutions.
- Strong experience with cloud cost optimisation, FinOps practices and cloud consumption governance.
- Experience using Cloudability or similar cloud financial management platforms to drive cloud visibility, optimisation and reporting.
- Experience defining and implementing cloud tagging strategies, governance standards and operational compliance controls.
- Experience designing and implementing automated remediation workflows.
- Experience creating operational dashboards, alerting frameworks, reliability metrics and engineering KPIs.
- Experience driving cloud migration initiatives, account onboarding and AWS platform transformations.
- Experience building reusable platform components, self-service capabilities and developer enablement tooling.
- Experience creating technical solution designs, architecture diagrams, operational runbooks and engineering documentation.
- Strong understanding of cloud platform services as both a producer and consumer.
- Strong understanding of release management, deployment strategies and environment management.
- Strong experience with Agile delivery methodologies and engineering tooling including Jira, Confluence and GitHub.
- DevOps as a mindset.
- Customer-centric, passionate about delivering reliable digital platforms and services.
- Demonstrating a true engineering craftsmanship mindset.
- Passionate about continuous improvement, collaboration and great teams.
- Strong problem-solving skills coupled with excellent communication skills.
- Open-minded, inquisitive, life-long learner.
- Comfortable with ambiguity and highly autonomous.
- Flexible work hours
- Remote work options
- Professional development oppertunities
- Collaborative and supportive work environment