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Devops Engineer At Living Goods

Living Goods

NGO / Non-Profit Associations full time Nairobi Posted 1 day ago

At Living Goods we empower people to improve the health of their families, friends and communities. Living Goods supports networks of 'Avon-like’ health entrepreneurs who go door to door to teach families how to improve their health and wealth and sell life-changing products such as simple treatments for malaria and diarrhea, safe delivery kits, fortified foods, clean cook stoves, water filters, and solar lights. By combining the best practices from business and public health, we are dramatically lowering child mortality AND creating livelihoods for thousands of enterprising women. Living Goods supports a network of over 2,000 micro-entrepreneurs in Uganda and Kenya who teach families in their communities how to improve health and well-being while selling affordable, high-impact products like basic medicines, fortified foods, water filters, clean cook-stoves, and solar lights. As part of the Branch Team, you will play a key role in supporting Community Health Volunteers (CHVs) to deliver high quality health care to their communities and generate sales of critical products.  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.