Summary
Date Posted: Thursday, January 21, 2021 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
KOKO Networks is a venture-backed technology company currently operating in Kenya and India. Our mission is to imagine and deliver technology that transforms life in the world’s fastest growing cities. We build and deploy cloud-connected "KOKO Points" inside local retail outlets, which provide mass market consumer goods in partnership with major suppliers. Our first solution is liquid ethanol cooking fuel, which offers significant cost savings and quality of life improvements in the multi-billion dollar urban cooking market. In Kenya, this solution is delivered in partnership with Vivo Energy, the operator of Shell-branded fuel infrastructure across Africa. KOKO offers a fast-paced and highly collaborative work environment with significant opportunities for professional growth. We are looking for people who share our passion for technology and our vision for global impact.
Your Role
As KOKO grows within and outside Kenya, our team is looking for a Senior DevOps Manager to build and lead a small but high-performing team of DevOps engineers. You will guide their work, set strategy for the team, and work alongside other Engineering managers, Principal engineers, and our Product team. As such you will play a key role in enabling KOKO’s long term success, including our expansion beyond Nairobi and Kenya. This is a very visible leadership position in which you should be able to influence the decisions of your team without having to make all of them.
In this position, you’ll have the opportunity to contribute and add value across KOKO's entire product suite, through individual contribution, and equally importantly through bringing strong leadership to a group of DevOps and cloud engineers. In this role, you should be a "player and coach" - excited about managing and coaching engineers, as well as contributing, hands-on.
KOKO’s suite of products spans multiple technical domains and disciplines in software and hardware, and so experience in end-to-end systems thinking across distributed components is key. .

What you will do
• You will recruit, manage and provide technical mentorship to DevOps engineers through active coaching and setting measurable goals that help them grow and create maximum impact for KOKO.
• You will build the engineering culture at KOKO, ensuring it is positioned to attract similar minded people with a passion for using technology to tackle some of the hardest challenges.
• You will work closely with Product and Engineering leaders to contribute to the most valuable areas of technical decision making, advancing key initiatives and reducing risk on critical projects.
• You will ensure the use of best practices including secure cloud design patterns, automated security, CI/CD across teams and projects, and help others to improve the quality of their work.
• You will serve as a technical authority and represent the full internal and external capabilities of our platforms within and outside the Product and Engineering teams
• You will review technical designs, and ensure they will be scalable and robust.
KOKO’s current technology stack includes (but is not limited to) AWS, Python, Flask, Vue.js, Postgres, Kotlin, Java, Firebase, C++, Celery, Message Queues, Odoo ERP, Docker, Jenkins, CircleCI, Git

What You Will Bring to KOKO
• Three or more years of experience directly managing DevOps and/or cloud engineers and 8+ years of experience in technology/engineering overall
• Strong track record designing and delivering automated toolchains and secure cloud patterns
• Significant experience in the following areas: enterprise application and service based architectures, software design methods, CI/CD, cyber security, process automation, QA and test automation, and highly scalable data architectures.
• Well developed skills in designing and building for performance, reliability, security and maintainability
• Evangelist for Agile and DevOps practices, able to work closely with engineering leaders to support the wider engineering team in delivering in an agile manner to achieve key goals.
• Strong communicator, both written and verbal, who is calm and decisive under pressure.
• Empathy for your colleagues, encouraging team members to think creatively while knowing where to intervene to tackle tough problems and navigate conflicts.
We are looking for a highly technical leader with significant experience in scaling and maintaining complex, mission critical secure cloud designs and DevOps toolchains, and making key architectural decisions along the way. You should be comfortable leading and coaching in a remote environment, building rapport across the team, doing what’s necessary to ensure KOKO’s products always deliver.

What we offer
• Competitive salary plus a quarterly cash bonus
• Annual compensation reviews - we reward great work
• Discounted health insurance with no-cost financing for you and your dependents (in Kenya)
• 21 days of annual leave plus public holidays plus examination leave • Ongoing investment in you and your skills, incl. full access to over 5,000 online courses
• The right equipment for the job - a choice of MacBook, Windows, or Linux laptop
We believe that our people are critical for our ambitious growth plans in Kenya and beyond. We want to build an organisation where people thrive, feel included, grow professionally, and enjoy having high impact through their work.

Job Education Requirements: Not Specified

Job Education Experience: Not Specified

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