Talent Safari

Senior Systems Engineer

Talent Safari

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Nairobi • Kenya

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

AnsibleDNSGrafanaKubernetesLinuxMicroservicesMySQLPostgresPrometheusPythonTerraform

About the role

  • Design and deploy virtualization platforms (Proxmox, KVM) across distributed PoPs
  • Manage Kubernetes clusters for platform services and microservices deployments
  • Architect storage systems (Ceph, ZFS, TrueNAS) for network telemetry, logs, and operational data
  • Build and maintain AAA infrastructure (FreeRADIUS backed by Percona MySQL cluster) supporting thousands of concurrent subscribers
  • Implement core services: DNS, NTP, syslog, DHCP, IPAM
  • Deploy and optimize time-series databases (TimescaleDB, InfluxDB) for network metrics at scale
  • Design data pipelines that feed AI/ML models for network automation
  • Implement backup, replication, and disaster recovery strategies
  • Design unified data architectures that bridge physical infrastructure (fiber, devices, PoPs), logical network state (IP allocations, routing, VLANs), and operational telemetry into coherent, queryable systems
  • Build data pipelines that correlate network events with billing and SLA compensation workflows
  • Build the telemetry and observability stack that enables intelligent network management
  • Instrument systems to generate training data for predictive maintenance and anomaly detection
  • Work with the team to deploy AI models that automate fault detection, capacity planning, and traffic optimization
  • Create feedback loops between network events and automated remediation systems
  • Develop infrastructure-as-code (Ansible, Terraform) for repeatable deployments across markets
  • Implement comprehensive monitoring (Zabbix, Prometheus, Grafana, LibreNMS, Graylog)
  • Build alerting systems that reduce NOC workload through intelligent triage
  • Create tooling for automated provisioning of partner ISP infrastructure
  • Design internal tools as extensible platforms - monitoring, provisioning, and analytics systems you build will be productized and offered to partner ISPs on our backbone

Requirements

  • 5+ years in systems engineering or infrastructure roles
  • Strong Linux administration (we run Debian/Ubuntu)
  • Kubernetes administration—deploying, scaling, and troubleshooting clusters
  • Deep experience with PostgreSQL and/or MySQL—query optimization, replication, clustering, backup strategies
  • Virtualization and bare-metal provisioning at scale
  • Proficiency with network troubleshooting (tcpdump, Wireshark)
  • Infrastructure-as-code experience (Ansible, Terraform, or similar)
  • Scripting in Python or Bash
Benefits
  • A foundational role in building infrastructure for Africa's next-generation connectivity platform
  • Competitive salary
  • Equity in a mission-driven, investor-backed company
  • Private health and wellness benefits
  • High ownership and direct impact on how millions connect to the internet
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Hard Skills & Tools
Kubernetes administrationLinux administrationPostgreSQLMySQLVirtualizationInfrastructure-as-codeScriptingData pipelinesTime-series databasesNetwork troubleshooting