DevOps Engineer

Savannah Informatics is a Kenyan e-Health software company founded by clinicians and finance specialists to deliver interoperable, connected solutions for healthcare facilities, organizations and regions. Our vision is to enable a better healthcare future for Kenya through pioneering use of information technology and knowledge creation

DevOps Engineer

Job Description

• We are looking for an experienced DevOps engineer to operate at the interface of development and operations within our company and their involvement in each stage of a product’s existence should promote efficiency and, ultimately, increased revenue.

• As a DevOps engineer, you will help us build functional systems that improve customer experience. The role is critical to the organization’s overall success, right from planning to support primary KPIs such as customer satisfaction and productivity. You will be integrating the project functions and resources across the product life cycle, right from planning, building, testing, and deployment to support.

• If you’re dedicated and ambitious, and have a solid background in software engineering (familiar with Ruby or Python) we’d like to hear from you!

Responsibilities

This individual will be responsible for:

• Understanding customer requirements and project KPIs.

• Implementing various development, testing, automation tools, and IT infrastructure.

• Planning the team structure, activities, and involvement in project management activities.

• Managing stakeholders and external interfaces.

• Setting up tools and required infrastructure.

• Defining and setting development, test, release, update, and support processes for DevOps operation.

• Have the technical skill to review, verify, and validate the software code developed in the project.

• Troubleshooting techniques and fixing the code bugs.

• Monitoring the processes during the entire lifecycle for its adherence and updating or creating new processes for improvement and minimizing the wastage.

• Encouraging and building automated processes wherever possible.

• Identifying and deploying cybersecurity measures by continuously performing vulnerability assessment and risk management.

• Incidence management and root cause analysis.

• Coordination and communication within the team and with customers.

• Selecting and deploying appropriate CI/CD tools.

• Strive for continuous improvement and build continuous integration, continuous development, and constant deployment pipeline (CI/CD Pipeline).

• Mentoring and guiding the team members.

• Monitoring and measuring customer experience and KPIs.

• Managing periodic reporting on the progress to the management and the customer.

Skills

The ideal candidate for this position will have the following:

Deep Knowledge of Linux Systems

• The candidate must have strong skills in Operating Systems (Linux/Ubuntu/Debian), understand their way around a UNIX shell and believe that where there is a shell, there is a way.

Good Computer Network Skills

• He/She/They understands how networks work, the OSI model and protocols including TCP/IP, UDP, ICMP, HTTP(s), DNS, DHCP, SMTP etc.

Virtualization and Containerization Technologies

• A deep understanding of Docker, LXD or Containerd runtimes.