DevOps Engineer
Reports to: Senior DevOps Engineer.
Location: Nairobi – Kenya.
About Living Goods
Living Goods endeavours to improve access to essential healthcare services in underserved regions, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. We empower Community Health Workers (CHWs) with digital tools that enable them to deliver door-to-door care. CHWs use a mobile app to track pregnancies, diagnose and treat common infectious diseases like malaria and pneumonia, monitor disease outbreaks, and follow up with families. Real-time data also supports performance monitoring and impact assessment. By integrating tech-based solutions into community health systems, Living Goods fosters better health outcomes, demonstrating the power of digital health in transforming healthcare delivery in resource-constrained settings.We are seeking a seasoned DevOps Engineer to design, implement and maintain scalable and resilient infrastructure solutions to support our software development and deployment processes. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in DevOps and an understanding of its concepts and best practices.
Embedded within the Digital Health Team, this role will report to the Senior DevOps Engineer. The ideal candidate will bring expertise in designing, implementing and maintaining tools and processes for continuous integration, delivery, and deployment of our software solutions.
Roles and Responsibilities
- Design
and implement automation tools and frameworks for continuous integration,
delivery, and deployment.
- Collaborate
with development teams to understand requirements and implement solutions.
- Develop
and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate software delivery.
- Monitor
and manage infrastructure, ensuring optimal performance, security, and
scalability.
- Troubleshoot
and resolve issues related to application development, deployment, and
operations.
- Implement
and maintain version control systems, configuration management tools, and
other DevOps-related technologies.
- Continuously
improve processes and tools to enhance efficiency and productivity.
- Document
processes and workflows to support team knowledge sharing.
- Develop,
test, implement, maintain, and optimize automated software delivery in an
Infrastructure as Code (IAC) environment.
- Implement
integrations requested by software engineering teams.
- Contribute
to improving system reliability, availability and performance.
- Stay
up to date with industry trends and best practices in DevOps.
Skills and Competencies
- Experience
with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
- Good
knowledge in Docker and Kubernetes for container management and
orchestration.
- Hands
on experience with DevOps tools and technologies, such as Jenkins, Docker,
Kubernetes, terraform and Ansible, GitHub Actions and other CI/CD tools.
- Experience
in one or more programming languages, preferably Python and JavaScript
- Linux
system administration, monitoring, security best practices, networking,
and logging.
- Good
knowledge of shell scripting, Java or Python.
- Knowledge
of monitoring and logging tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack)
- Working
knowledge of databases both RDBS and NoSQL.
- Familiarity
with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
- Strong
analytical and problem-solving skills, with attention to detail.
- Excellent
communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work
effectively in a team environment.
- Ability
to prioritize tasks and manage time efficiently in a fast-paced
environment.
- Continuous
learning mindset to stay updated with evolving technologies and industry
best practices.
- Familiarity
with command-line tools on Linux or another UNIX-like operating system.
- Experience
with version control systems such as GIT.
- Familiarity
with open-source platforms and tools such as Digital Global Goods (CHT,
CommCare, OpenSRP, OpenMRS, OpenLMIS, DHIS2, etc.) would be advantageous.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s
degree in computer science, IT, or a related field.
- 3+
years of professional experience in a DevOps role, and experience in
working on a Linux based infrastructure.
- Relevant
certifications in cloud platforms will be an added advantage.
Compensation
A competitive salary and benefits package commensurate with experience including health insurance and bonus opportunity. The opportunity to be your best while making lives better for those in need.Living Goods is an equal opportunity employer and will
consider every qualified applicant for employment