DevOps Engineer at Dokuma Digital Consultancy – Harare, Zimbabwe

Design, run and optimise Dokuma's software products meet infrastructure, enterprise Kubernetes environments, databases and on-premises systems. Keep our applications and services secure, reliable, scalable and highly available, on premises and in the cloud.

Key Responsibilities:
* Enterprise Kubernetes: Run production Clusters end to end, including upgrades, scaling, networking, storage, RBAC and troubleshooting.
* Databases: Operate PostgreSQL and other databases, tune performance, manage replication, backups and recovery.
* On-premises infrastructure: Administer Linux servers, virtualisation, storage and networking, patch, harden and monitor.
* CI/CD and automation: Build deployment pipelines, container registries and infrastructure as Code, support safe rollbacks.
* Reliability and recovery: Respond to incidents and fix root causes, test backups and disaster recovery against RTO/RPO targets.

Qualifications & Experience:
* Degree or diploma in Computer Science, IT or Infrastructure Engineering.
* Mandatory: hands-on enterprise Kubernetes in production.
* Mandatory: on-premises infrastructure administration.
* Production database operations and performance troubleshooting.
* CI/CD, high availability and disaster recovery experience.

Desirable Experience:
* Red Hat OpenShift or Suse Rancher.
* On-premise or hybrid Kubernetes.
* PostgreSQL replication and tuning.
* Terraform or Ansible.
* Prometheus, Grafana and logging.
* Kubernetes or infrastructure certs.

Core Competencies:
* Technical: Troubleshooting and root-cause analysis; production incident management; automation; security-conscious engineering.
* Behavioural: Analytical thinking, attention to detail, documentation, collaboration, ownership, composure under pressure.