Senior DevOps Engineer

Absa Bank Kenya PLC

Truly African

We are a diversified standalone African financial services group, delivering an integrated set of products and services across personal and business banking, corporate and investment banking, wealth, investment management and insurance.

Absa Group Limited is listed on the JSE and is one of Africa’s largest diversified financial services groups with a presence in 12 countries across the continent and around 41 000 employees.

Absa Group Limited is listed on the JSE and is one of Africa’s largest diversified financial services groups with a presence in 12 countries across the continent and around 41 000 employees.

We own majority stakes in banks in Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius, Mozambique, the Seychelles, South Africa, Tanzania (ABSA Bank in Tanzania and National Bank of Commerce), Uganda and Zambia. We also have representative offices in Namibia and Nigeria, as well as insurance operations in Botswana, Kenya, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania and Zambia.

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https://www.absabank.co.ke/

Senior DevOps Engineer

Job Summary

Design, implement, and support enterprise DevOps platforms, automation frameworks, and cloud-native delivery pipelines that enable secure, scalable, and reliable software delivery.

 

Job Description

Key Focus Areas

  • Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines.
  • Automate infrastructure provisioning and deployments.
  • Support cloud-native platforms and container orchestration.
  • Implement Infrastructure as Code solutions.
  • Enhance reliability through monitoring and observability.
  • Enable developer productivity through self-service tooling.
  • Implement DevSecOps controls throughout the SDLC.

Strategy Execution

  • Support DevOps and DevSecOps strategies aligned to enterprise objectives.
  • Contribute to adoption of modern engineering and automation practices.

Customer Primacy

  • Ensure platform services meet availability and reliability standards.
  • Enable faster delivery of customer-facing capabilities.

Sustainable Growth

  • Automate operational tasks and optimize platform scalability.
  • Support cloud adoption and modernization initiatives.

Innovation and Continuous Improvement

  • Drive Infrastructure as Code and GitOps adoption.
  • Evaluate emerging DevOps tools and technologies.

Collaboration and Team Enablement

  • Partner with engineering and security teams.
  • Provide technical guidance and knowledge sharing.

Operational Effectiveness

  • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines.
  • Manage Kubernetes and container platforms.
  • Implement monitoring and observability solutions.

Digital Adoption

  • Promote DevOps tools, automation and platform standardization.

Governance, Risk and Compliance

  • Embed security controls into delivery processes.
  • Ensure compliance with enterprise standards.

Data and Observability

  • Implement logging, monitoring, tracing and dashboards.

Stakeholder Management

  • Collaborate with developers, architects and business stakeholders.

 

Qualifications and Experience

Education / Qualification

  • Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Software Engineering or related discipline.
  • Industry certifications advantageous: Azure DevOps Engineer, AWS DevOps Engineer, CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator), RHCE (Red Hat Certified Engineer), Terraform Associate.

Work Experience

  • 5-8 years experience in DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering or Cloud Engineering.
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines, cloud platforms, Terraform, Docker and Kubernetes.
  • Experience implementing monitoring, logging and observability solutions.

Knowledge and Skills

DevOps, DevSecOps, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, Kubernetes, Docker, Cloud Platforms, GitOps, Automation, Monitoring, Security Automation, Networking, Agile Methodologies.

 

Education

Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology

Method of application

If you are interested and qualified, kindly submit your application via the link provided below,

https://absa.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/ABSAcareersite/details/Senior-DevOps-Engineer_R-15989738-2?utm_source=Jobinkenya

 

Deadline    12th August 2026

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