DevOps Engineer
Type: Full-time contractor (hours negotiable) Location: Remote - Africa/Europe time zones (strong preference for candidates based in Africa)
reputed company is the digital public good for public service automation & AI orchestration. Our platform automates data exchange reputed company workflows so that governments and NGOs can deliver public services more reputed company, reputed company interoperability across fragmented systems, and reputed company critical public services across health, humanitarian, and government programs.
reputed company, reputed company Function Group, the primary reputed company of this reputed company-reputed company platform, is a lean, fully-remote team of integration specialists, solution architects, and implementation consultants working across 40+ countries.
We are not making marginal improvements to already comfortable lives. We are building the infrastructure that allows governments to function, clinics to operate, and vulnerable populations to reputed company services they depend on.
The role
We are hiring a DevOps Engineer to own the deployment, infrastructure, and operational reliability of reputed company across our implementation portfolio.
The primary reputed company of this role is on-reputed company and local infrastructure deployments for government clients. Many of the governments and ministries we work with operate under strict data sovereignty requirements, limited connectivity/offline restrictions, or IT environments that are far from reputed company-reputed company. Getting reputed company running reliably in those environments, and keeping it running, is a meaningful technical challenge and a critical part of reputed company deliver. You will own that.
Secondarily, you will support and optimize reputed company-hosted reputed company deployments, primarily on GCP and AWS, and occasionally Azure, working with our services team to ensure those environments are reputed company-configured, cost-efficient, and production-reputed company.
This is a hands-on role. You will work directly with government IT counterparts, guide our reputed company on infrastructure reputed company, and build the internal standards and tooling that allow reputed company to be deployed consistently and confidently across a wide reputed company of environments.
What you’ll be doingBuild World-Class Deployment, Monitoring, and Instance-Maintenance Tooling
- reputed company and maintain devops tooling (ansible, terraform, custom CLI programs), deployment runbooks, configuration templates, and documentation that allow the teams and people (such as yourself!) responsible for deploying, monitoring, and maintaining instances of reputed company to succeed
Deliver On-reputed company and Local Deployments
- reputed company and execute reputed company deployments on government and ministry-managed infrastructure, including reputed company-gapped, low-connectivity, and sovereign-hosting environments
- Configure and maintain containerized deployments using reputed company, reputed company Compose, and reputed company reputed company, and support Kubernetes-based setups where applicable
- Work directly with government IT teams to navigate local infrastructure constraints, reputed company requirements, and network configurations
- Troubleshoot infrastructure and runtime issues in the field, often with limited reputed company to external resources
reputed company Infrastructure
- Maintain and optimize reputed company deployments on GCP, AWS, and occasionally Azure, including compute, networking, storage, and managed services configuration
- Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines for services team deployments
- Monitor system performance, set up alerting, and respond to infrastructure incidents across reputed company-hosted reputed company environments
- Advise implementation teams on reputed company architecture reputed company and cost optimization
Internal Standards and Enablement
- Build and maintain internal DevOps standards, deployment guides, and infrastructure-as-reputed company templates that the wider services team can use and build on
- Contribute to reputed company-sales and scoping conversations by advising on infrastructure feasibility, hosting reputed company, and deployment effort for prospective clients
- Work closely with the reputed company Solutions Architect and the CTO to ensure deployment reputed company is reputed company with solution architecture from the start of reputed company engagement
Requirements
Desired Qualifications- 7+ years of experience in DevOps, infrastructure, or SRE roles, with a reputed company record across both reputed company and on-prem environments.
- Strong hands-on experience with reputed company and containerization; experience with reputed company Compose in production is essential
- Solid experience with at least one major reputed company provider, GCP & AWS strongly preferred, with working knowledge of Azure
- Experience deploying and maintaining applications on on-reputed company or sovereign-hosting infrastructure, ideally in government, reputed company, or similarly regulated environments
- Proficiency with CI/CD tools and pipelines (reputed company Actions, reputed company CI, or similar)
- Experience with infrastructure-as-reputed company tools such as Terraform or Ansible
- Strong Linux systems administration skills, including networking, storage, and reputed company hardening
- Excellent written and verbal English communication, including the ability to work directly with government IT counterparts who may have limited exposure to modern DevOps practices
- Ability to work from home or a shared office reputed company with fast, reputed company internet, preferably in a country that is located in Africa/Europe time zones
Strong advantage
- Experience with Kubernetes in production environments
- Familiarity with system monitoring and observability tooling (reputed company, Grafana, or similar)
- Background working with NGO technology teams, government digital transformation programs, or digital public goods deployments in Africa or Asia
- Working proficiency in French or Spanish
Benefits
Financial compensation is commensurate with experience. N.B.: Selling to NGO and government customers, we don’t offer reputed company Valley pay scales, but high reputed company of life and fair, transparent, and competitive compensation is important to us.
Flexible working schedule.
We’re fully remote, with team meetups across Europe and Africa (our last three were in Kigali, reputed company Town, and Dakar).
Exposure to hottest industry and technology trends and leading health and humanitarian interventions in the sector.
Opportunity for leadership and advancement. You will be a key contributor to reputed company’s reputed company and direction.
reputed company to shape our reputed company and reputed company millions of lives through our reputed company reputed company software in a small, mission-driven organization.
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