DevOps Manager
Tala, Kenya

About Tala
Tala is a global technology company building the world’s most accessible financial services. With more than $350 million raised from visionary investors, we are serving millions of customers around the world who have been overlooked by traditional financial institutions and our plan is to serve millions more, and have been named by theFortuneImpact 20 list,CNBC’s Disruptor 50, andForbes’Fintech 50 list for four years running. We are expanding across product offerings, countries and crypto and are looking for people who have an entrepreneurial spirit and are passionate about the mission.
By creating a unique platform that enables lending and other financial services around the globe, people in emerging markets are able to start and expand small businesses, manage day-to-day needs, and pursue their financial goals with confidence. Currently, more than 6 million people across Kenya, the Philippines, Mexico, and India have used Tala products. Due to our global team, we have a remote-first approach, and also have offices in Santa Monica, CA (HQ); Nairobi, Kenya; Mexico City, Mexico; Manila, the Philippines; and Bangalore, India.
Most Talazens join us because they connect with our mission of enabling financial agency for underbanked people around the world. If you are energized by the impact you can make at Tala, we’d love to hear from you!
The DevOps Manager (DM) is responsible for the health of our infrastructure. As an expert, DE delivers solutions that provide automated configuration and scaling of our architecture. As a CI/CD advocate DE proposes and implements tools that automate and streamline our development and deployment processes, enforce industry standards and best practices, increase effectiveness of Tala’s team members, and reduce risks of human errors.
The Manager DevOps must be passionate about improving operational efficiency and customer satisfaction through working collaboratively with groups across the enterprise (engineering, hosting, services, cyber security, etc.) to drive quality and speed of innovation. This role will be recommending actions, processes, and shifts that will result in KPI and operational improvements. This individual works under the direction of the DevOps Director.What You'll Do:

• Identifies, assesses, and solves complex technical problems, where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors, and applies various tool and automation solutions to drive frequent and quality solutions for an enterprise platform.
• Ability to collaborate and coordinate across multiple disciplines to deliver aligned solutions meeting multiple complex needs that ultimately delivers a world-class experience toTala customersWorks with developers and management to develop plans and implement delivery pipelines.
• Design, document, automate and support CI/CD pipelines promoting code across Ramp;D and operationally critical environments.
• Work with cybersecurity to ensure secure practices and policies are woven into every aspect of operations.
• Evaluate and evangelize forward-looking processes, tools and technologies that help deliver high-quality secure software faster and more efficiently.
• Building and maintaining the container platform (Kubernetes)
• You can expect to build greenfield projects, mitigate some amount of Legacy infrastructure, and participate in on-call rotation
• You will mentor, teach, and guide others as we strive to develop successful independent teams that tackle problems in an efficient and cost effective manner

What You'll Need:

• 5 years of experience in managing application development, software delivery lifecycle, and/or infrastructure development and administration
• Minimum of 5 years’ design and implementation of Continuous Delivery and/or DevOps solutions or architecture patterns.
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience with code repository management, code merge and quality checks, continuous integration, and automated deployment amp; management using tools like Jenkins, SVN, Git, Ansible, Artifactory, Service Now, Sonar, Selenium
• Minimum of 5 years of experience with approaches and tooling for automated build, delivery and release of software
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience with managing large teams including progress monitoring and reporting
• Minimum of 5 year of experience working in an Agile delivery environment
• Minimum of 3 years' experience in automation scripting using one or more of the following languages: Perl, Ruby, Bash, or Python

Our vision is to build a new financial ecosystem where everyone can participate on equal footing and access the tools they need to be financially healthy. We strongly believe that inclusion fosters innovation and we’re proud to have a diverse global team that represents a multi