DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer Reports to: Senior Manager, Software Engineering. Location: Nairobi - Kenya

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 Manager, Software Engineering. 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

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, IT, or a related field
• 5+ 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.

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.

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. Living Goods does not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, national origin, ancestry, religion, gender, sexual orientation or disability. Our current job openings are displayed on our website, where you can search for open positions and apply directly. Living Goods does not offer any positions without an interview and never asks candidates for money. If you are asked for money, we strongly recommend that you do not respond and do not send money or personal information.