

About Sun King
Sun King is the world’s leading off-grid solar energy company, delivering energy access to 1.8 billion people without reliable grid connections through innovative product design, fintech solutions, and field operations.
Key highlights:
- Connected over 20 million homes to solar power across Africa and Asia, adding 200,000 homes monthly.
- Affordable ‘pay-as-you-go’ financing model; after 1-2 years, customers own their solar equipment.
- Saved customers over $4 billion to date.
- Collect 650,000 daily payments via 28,000 field agents using mobile money systems.
- Products range from home lighting to high-energy appliances, with expansion into clean cooking, electric mobility, and entertainment.
With 2,800 staff across 12 countries, our team includes experts in various fields, all passionate about serving off-grid communities.
Diversity Commitment:
44% of our workforce are women, reflecting our commitment to gender diversity.
About the role:
Sun King is looking for a self-driven Infrastructure engineer, who is comfortable working in a fast-paced startup environment and balancing the needs of multiple development teams and systems. You will work on improving our current IAC, observability stack, and incident response processes. You will work with the data science, analytics, and engineering teams to build optimized CI/CD pipelines, scalable AWS infrastructure, and Kubernetes deployments.
What you would be expected to do:
- Work with engineering, automation, and data teams to work on various infrastructure requirements.
- Designing modular and efficient GitOps CI/CD pipelines, agnostic to the underlying platform.
- Managing AWS services for multiple teams.
- Managing custom data store deployments like sharded MongoDB clusters, Elasticsearch clusters, and upcoming services.
- Deployment and management of Kubernetes resources.
- Deployment and management of custom metrics exporters, trace data, custom application metrics, and designing dashboards, querying metrics from multiple resources, as an end-to-end observability stack solution.
- Set up incident response services and design effective processes.
- Deployment and management of critical platform services like OPA and Keycloak for IAM.
- Advocate best practices for high availability and scalability when designing AWS infrastructure, observability dashboards, implementing IAC, deploying to Kubernetes, and designing GitOps CI/CD pipelines.
You might be a strong candidate if you have/are:
- Hands-on experience with Docker or any other container runtime environment and Linux with the ability to perform basic administrative tasks.
- Experience working with web servers (nginx, apache) and cloud providers (preferably AWS).
- Hands-on scripting and automation experience (Python, Bash), experience debugging and troubleshooting Linux environments and cloud-native deployments.
- Experience building CI/CD pipelines, with familiarity with monitoring & alerting systems (Grafana, Prometheus, and exporters).
- Knowledge of web architecture, distributed systems, and single points of failure.
- Familiarity with cloud-native deployments and concepts like high availability, scalability, and bottleneck.
- Good networking fundamentals — SSH, DNS, TCP/IP, HTTP, SSL, load balancing, reverse proxies, and firewalls.
Good to have:
- Experience with backend development and setting up databases and performance tuning using parameter groups.
- Working experience in Kubernetes cluster administration and Kubernetes deployments.
- Experience working alongside sec ops engineers.
- Basic knowledge of Envoy, service mesh (Istio), and SRE concepts like distributed tracing.
- Setup and usage of open telemetry, central logging, and monitoring systems.
What Sun King offers:
- Professional growth in a dynamic, rapidly expanding, high-social-impact industry.
- An open-minded, collaborative culture made up of enthusiastic colleagues who are driven by the challenge of innovation towards profound impact on people and the planet.
- A truly multicultural experience: you will have the chance to work with and learn from people from different geographies, nationalities, and backgrounds.
- Structured, tailored learning and development programs that help you become a better leader, manager, and professional through the Sun King Center for Leadership.

About Sun King
About
Sun King is a leading global provider of off-grid solar energy solutions, designed to serve the 1.8 billion people who lack reliable or affordable access to traditional electrical grids. With a mission to power brighter lives, the company focuses on underserved markets across Africa and Asia. Sun King's product range includes solar lanterns, solar home systems, and solar inverters, tailored to meet a variety of energy needs—from portable lighting to powering entire homes.
The company's innovative solutions, such as the recently launched PowerHub 3300 and expandable solar home systems, reflect their commitment to evolving customer demands. With operations in over 40 countries and millions of products sold, Sun King makes solar energy accessible through pay-as-you-go financing options. The company’s network of field agents plays a key role in selling, installing, and servicing products, driving local economic development. Rooted in sustainability, Sun King also implements a Sustainable Financing Framework and ensures customer satisfaction through extensive service centers and after-sales support.
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Sun King designs, distributes, installs, and finances solar energy solutions for the 1.8 billion people living without reliable access to electricity. The company offers a range of products from portable solar lamps to powerful home and business energy systems, aiming to improve lives across Africa and Asia through affordable, clean energy.
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