Principal Infrastructure Engineer

Distro
Nairobi
Workplace: HybridFull timeFunction: DevOps, Cloud & InfrastructureExperience: 7-10 yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Technical leadership","Mentoring","Problem diagnosis","Automation","Standards compliance"]

Ensure availability and performance for hosting services in a SaaS environment supporting payroll and HR platforms. Work across self-hosted infrastructure and Azure, automate manual operations, enforce compliance standards, and evolve configuration management. Diagnose end-to-end incidents across network, authentication, SSL, and applications; own topology documentation; and lead disaster recovery design, building, and testing. Serve as a technical lead and mentor for the infrastructure team.

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Distro
Distro
20 hours ago

Principal Infrastructure Engineer

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Job Summary

Ensure availability and performance for hosting services in a SaaS environment supporting payroll and HR platforms. Work across self-hosted infrastructure and Azure, automate manual operations, enforce compliance standards, and evolve configuration management. Diagnose end-to-end incidents across network, authentication, SSL, and applications; own topology documentation; and lead disaster recovery design, building, and testing. Serve as a technical lead and mentor for the infrastructure team.
Location: Nairobi
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: DevOps, Cloud & Infrastructure
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Ensure availability and performance across hosting services for a payroll and HR platform
  • •Collaborate with senior management to design and support new hosted services
  • •Automate manual work, enforce compliance standards, and evolve configuration management
  • •Diagnose full-stack problems end to end (network, authentication, SSL, application) and maintain topology documentation
  • •Build and test disaster recovery and serve as technical lead and mentor for the team

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Health Insurance

Key Requirements

  • •Bachelor's in Computer Science, MIS, or Engineering, plus 7–10 years of relevant experience
  • •Deep Linux, Windows, database, and networking knowledge
  • •Experience with Puppet, Chef, or Ansible
  • •Hands-on with Docker and container infrastructure
  • •Experience with VMware and cloud infrastructure in a managed service environment
Experience:7-10 yearsSaaS
Education:Bachelor's in Computer Science, MIS, or Engineering
Skills:Technical leadershipMentoringProblem diagnosisAutomationStandards compliance
Certifications:RHCSARHCEMCSAMCSECCNA
Tech Stack:LinuxWindowsPuppetChefAnsibleDockerContainer infrastructureVMwareAzureCloud infrastructureNetworkingAuthenticationSSLDisaster recoverySaaS

Company Brief

Distro
Provides a SaaS platform to simplify app distribution and release management, helping developers and teams build, share, and deploy mobile and web app builds to testers and stores.
Industry: Developer Tools
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