The Role

As we continue to enhance and scale our growing platform, we're looking for a motivated DevOps Engineer with strong hands-on and design skills to join our IT team. This role will focus primarily on supporting and evolving our native iOS and Android pipelines and infrastructure. The DevOps engineer should be able to diagnose and resolve problems reliably, lead continuous improvement culture, and have the patience to communicate with a variety of interdisciplinary stakeholders.

Initiative, resourcefulness, and autonomy are key attributes for success. You will be comfortable diagnosing and resolving complex issues, fostering a culture of continuous improvement, and communicating effectively with a wide range of interdisciplinary stakeholders.

We're looking for someone who is proactive, able to quickly understand and integrate complex systems, juggle multiple priorities, and think creatively to design simple, robust solutions to challenging problems.

You know the software development lifecycle better than the back of your hand, and you're fully comfortable working in Agile environments.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ownership of the CI/CD pipeline ensuring a stable and performant platform/process.
• Effective communication with Operation's and Development teams.
• Continuously improve processes and documentation.
• Effective resolution of assigned tickets and tasks.
• Documentation and Knowledge sharing.
• Provide end to end solutions including its execution.
• Provide user support to engineering teams.
• Set up tools and required infrastructure.
• Encourage and build automated processes wherever possible.
• Incident management and root cause analysis.
• Follow the company processes, procedures, and methodologies.
• Collaborate to achieve common goals.
• Support and act in line with the company values.
• Keep up to date with compliance training offered by the company.
• Ensure that you adhere to the Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) obligations for your role.
• Identify and raise any non-compliance incidents promptly to your line manager.
• Challenge processes, policies and projects that will negatively impact compliance within the Group.
• Complete all mandatory compliance training assigned to you.
• Reach out to the Compliance Teams if unsure of any of your compliance obligations or the requirements are unclear.

Technical skills required:

• Design CI/CD pipelines to solve developer's requirements.
• Experience with Android and iOS native apps pipeline (Jenkins, Gitlab)
• Experience using Fastlane Automating iOS/Android build, code signing, testing, and deployment
• Experience with Gradle (Android) and Xcodebuild/xcodeproj/swift (iOS)
• Code signing and provisioning profiles (Apple Developer certificates, provisioning profiles, keychains)
• Keystore management (Android .keystore/.jks files)
• Versioning and app bundle management (.apk, .aab, .ipa)
• Testing tools like testFlight, XCTest, Appium or similar.
• Static code analysis tools like SonarQube, SwiftLint, Android Lint
• Experience managing macOS systems (Homebrew, Xcode CLI tools, and Android SDK/NDK, Jenkins agent, Gitlab runner, Tart)
• Running iOS simulators and Android emulators via CLI in CI
• Ability to write code to automate repeatable processes (Ansible, Python, Bash).
• Experience in using containers and orchestration to dockerize existing applications.
• Experience with docker clustering frameworks like Kubernetes, Docker Swarm.
• Experience using tools like Vault, Artifactory, ArgoCD.
• Understanding of Source Control Management systems like GIT and Bitbucket.
• Experience with provisioning tools to treat infrastructure as code, like Terraform.
• Experience with monitoring tools like Prometheus, Kibana, Grafana.
• Exposure to various infrastructure technologies such as Couchbase, Elasticsearch, Oracle, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, and Kafka.
• Exposure to Hyper-V, Openstack, VmWare, RHVE.
• Experience with Azure/GCP and AWS.
   

Working conditions:

• Occasional out of hour's conferencing with overseas colleagues.
• Occasional out of hours or weekend work.
• A workplace that supports & role models Diversity & Inclusion. This is a huge part of who we are and what Kindred stands for.
• Learning & Development to assist you to achieve your career goals.
• Fast-paced agile environment, with leading-edge technology and innovation.
• Work in a collaborative environment with highly talented and motivated colleagues that are passionate about knowledge sharing.

Functional Skills:

• • Ability to cope up with competing demands and remain focused on competing priorities.
  • Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to communicate with impact.
  • Excellent time management and organisational skills.
  • Can relate to employees at all levels of the organisation.
  • Ability to gain co-operation and commitment.
  • People focus.