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Deimos

Senior Platform Engineer

Deimos

Intermediate Platform Engineer designing, building, and maintaining scalable platforms at Deimos, focusing on cloud infrastructure and internal developer tooling.

Posted 5/20/2026full-timeRemote • 🇰🇪 KenyaSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
AnsibleAWSCloudGrafanaJavaKafkaKubernetesMySQLPostgresPrometheusSQLiteTerraformUnix

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and resilient platforms.
  • Treat cloud infrastructure as a product and internal developers as customers.
  • Build self-service tooling, automated guardrails, and platform experience for engineers.
  • Automate infrastructure, optimise CI/CD pipelines, and ensure platform reliability and performance.
  • Drive Platform Engineering best practices, improve developer productivity, and foster operational excellence through infrastructure-as-code and modern tooling.
  • Kubernetes & Containerisation: Kubernetes, Istio, ArgoCD, Helm & CI/CD for containerised workloads.
  • Monitoring and Logging: Prometheus, Loki, Grafana & ELK to monitor resources.
  • Source Control & CI/CD: GitHub & GitHub Actions for version control and CI/CD.
  • Operating Systems: Ansible and AWS tooling to manage Unix environments.
  • Backend Development: Hands-on experience designing, developing, and deploying backend services in Java; scripting for ad-hoc problems.
  • Cloud Infrastructure: AWS/Cloud services and best practices.
  • Infrastructure as Code: AWS CDK & Terraform to manage infrastructure.
  • Architecture and Design Patterns: DDD, EDA, distributed computing architecture.
  • Computer Networking: Core networking concepts including VPCs, Subnets, NAT Gateways, etc.
  • Database Management: Relational databases (MySQL, SQLite, PostgreSQL), event pipelining using Kafka.
  • Internal Developer Platform: Build and maintain tooling that reduces cognitive load for product teams.

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering.
  • 4+ years of relevant work experience as a Developer building/running Java or C# applications.
  • 2+ years deploying, managing, and rightsizing Kubernetes clusters, resources, and underlying infrastructure.
  • 2+ years designing and operating public cloud environments.
  • Experience using GitOps/CI-CD workflows for infrastructure as code and Helm workload deployments.
  • A product mindset for internal tooling: ability to identify developer pain points and build platform solutions that address them at scale.
  • Advantageous: experience in Agile/Scrum methodologies and familiarity with the AWS Well-Architected Framework.

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Flexibility and the freedom to work remotely.
  • Work-life balance where you are not expected to work over weekends or after hours.
  • A forward thinking remote company that knows how important it is to stay connected as one team, by providing virtual social platforms for employee engagement.
  • A monthly work from home allowance which you can use to set yourself up to work comfortably from home.
  • A MacBook or Windows laptop for you to do your best work on.
  • Become part of a team of exceptionally clever and talented people who like to share their knowledge and learnings.
  • We support your career growth and love to celebrate your successes and advancement!

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Hard Skills & Tools
KubernetesJavaC#AWSTerraformAnsibleGitHubCI/CDHelmRelational databases
Soft Skills
product mindsetdeveloper productivityoperational excellenceproblem-solvingcommunication
Certifications
Bachelor's degree in Computer ScienceBachelor's degree in Engineering