Senior DevOps Engineer Job Absa Bank, Nairobi, Kenya

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Job Title: Senior DevOps Engineer
Date Posted: 03/08/2026
Job Type: Hybrid
Job Level: Management
Employer: Absa Bank
Industry: IT
Salary: Open
Location: Nairobi
Country: Kenya
Deadline: 12/08/2026
Summary: IT Jobs, Absa Bank Jobs. Looking for an IT job in Kenya? Absa Bank is hiring a Senior DevOps Engineer to design, automate, and maintain CI/CD pipelines, optimize cloud infrastructure, and ensure high system availability and security.

Job Summary

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

Responsibilities

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.

EducationBachelor’s Degree: Information Technology

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