Engineer - Infrastructure SRE at Safaricom Candidate Experience site

Nakuru East ward, Nakuru, Kenya -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

09 Jun, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

11 Mar, 26

Experience

2 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Site Reliability Engineering, Automation, Infrastructure, Cloud Platforms, AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, SRE, DevOps, ITIL, Scalability, Resilience, Performance, Linux, Kubernetes

Industry

Telecommunications

Description

Reporting to the Manager - Infrastructure SRE, the role holder will be responsible for building, automating, operating, and continuously improving on-premises, hybrid, and multi-cloud infrastructure platforms using Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and automation-first principles. The role ensures the availability, performance, scalability, and resilience of critical systems through engineering, automation, and data-driven reliability practices. Working closely with the Manager – Infrastructure SRE and platform teams, the role focuses on eliminating manual operational toil, improving system reliability, and embedding automation-first and reliability-by-design principles across on-premises, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI). Safaricom is the leading technology company in East Africa. Our purpose is to transform lives by connecting people to people, people to opportunities and people to information. We keep over 60 million customers connected across Kenya and Ethiopia, and play a critical role in the society, supporting over 1.13 million jobs both directly and indirectly while our total economic value was estimated at KES 1.1 trillion ($ 8.5 billion) for the 12 months through March 2025. Listed on the Nairobi Securities Exchange and with annual revenues of close to KES 388 billion as at March 2025, Safaricom provides connectivity through wide range of technology. Our 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G network in aggregate covers over 99% of Kenya’s population. We run the world’s largest mobile payment system and Africa’s largest Fintech, M-PESA, the world’s first mobile money transfer system. By empowering millions of customers to transact, save or borrow money through their mobile phone, M-PESA has driven financial inclusion in Kenya to 84.8% of the adult population in 2024, from a low of 26.7% in 2006, and generated over KES 161 billion in revenue as at FY25. Our subsidiary, Safaricom Telecommunications Ethiopia, has deployed world class network and services to contribute to Ethiopia’s digital transformation. Safaricom is an equal opportunity employer, actively recruiting staff from different backgrounds reflecting the communities that we serve. We are committed to equal gender representation at all levels. As part of our ongoing commitment to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), we continue to work towards improving energy and resource efficiency in our network and facilities to reduce carbon emissions and our fuel consumption. We remain committed to becoming a Net Zero carbon-emitting company by 2050.

Responsibilities

The role involves building, automating, operating, and continuously improving on-premises, hybrid, and multi-cloud infrastructure platforms using SRE principles. The focus is on ensuring system availability, performance, and resilience by eliminating manual toil and embedding automation-first practices.