Hybrid Senior Systems Engineer

at Talent Safari

• Job title: Senior Systems Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: No Education Requirement
• Tech skills: Ansible, DNS, Grafana, Kubernetes, Linux, Microservices, MySQL, Postgres, Prometheus, Python, Terraform
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Nairobi, Kenya

About the role

• Senior Systems Engineer owning compute, storage, and platform infrastructure for Share's automated ISP network. Building systems for AI-driven operations and real-time telemetry across markets.

Responsibilities

• 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