One Acre Fund is a nonprofit organization that supplies smallholder farmers in East Africa with asset-based financing and agriculture training services to reduce hunger and poverty.

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Senior DevOps Engineer

Job Type

Full Time

Qualification

BA/BSc/HND

Experience

5 years

Location

Nairobi

Job Field

ICT / Computer

The Senior DevOps Engineer is responsible for creating processes as well as designing, implementing, and maintaining the infrastructure and automation tools that enable the continuous delivery and deployment of software products.

Responsibilities

Solution Specifications

Design and implement deployment processes and tooling that enable product managers and development teams to proactively identify and address delivery bottlenecks, ensuring smooth and continuous releases.

Write clear and concise specifications and documentation for the operational requirements and continuous workflow processes

Communicate operational requirements and development forecasts to the relevant stakeholders

Solution Analysis

Devise and implement technology frameworks to inform and capture solution analysis parameters to accelerate the overall software development process

Evaluate existing technology and infrastructure to identify gaps and opportunities, and develop strategic plans and scalable processes to drive modernization, efficiency, and future growth.

Solution Development

Drive the adoption of best practices in security, performance optimization, and high availability to ensure robust, scalable, and resilient systems.

Enforce code and other peer review processes to ensure compliance with quality and overall technical standards

Solution Maintenance

Build and maintain observability stacks (logging, monitoring, alerting).

Collaborate with development teams to optimize software delivery workflows.

Product Support

Contribute to improving processes that drive product support

Participate in on-call rotations and improve incident management processes.

People Management

Manages, or could manage, a team of 1-6 engineers

Teamwork:

Lead design sessions for CI/CD pipeline management

Mentor software and DevOps engineers on best practices and standards

Career Growth and Development

We have a strong culture of constant learning and we invest in developing our people. You’ll have weekly check-ins with your manager, access to mentorship and training programs, and regular feedback on your performance. We hold career reviews every six months, and set aside time to discuss your aspirations and career goals. You’ll have the opportunity to shape a growing organization and build a rewarding long-term career.

Qualifications

Technical Skills:

5+ years in software development and 3 years of DevOps and or system administration

Kubernetes (EKS, GKE, self-hosted), Helm, Istio

Alerting and log aggregation via ELK Stack

GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, ArgoCD

Fluency in scripting languages like Bash, Python

• Design and implement deployment processes and tooling that enable product managers and development teams to proactively identify and address delivery bottlenecks, ensuring smooth and continuous releases.
• Write clear and concise specifications and documentation for the operational requirements and continuous workflow processes
• Communicate operational requirements and development forecasts to the relevant stakeholders
• Devise and implement technology frameworks to inform and capture solution analysis parameters to accelerate the overall software development process
• Evaluate existing technology and infrastructure to identify gaps and opportunities, and develop strategic plans and scalable processes to drive modernization, efficiency, and future growth.
• Drive the adoption of best practices in security, performance optimization, and high availability to ensure robust, scalable, and resilient systems.
• Enforce code and other peer review processes to ensure compliance with quality and overall technical standards
• Build and maintain observability stacks (logging, monitoring, alerting).
• Collaborate with development teams to optimize software delivery workflows.
• Contribute to improving processes that drive product support
• Participate in on-call rotations and improve incident management processes.
• Manages, or could manage, a team of 1-6 engineers
• Lead design sessions for CI/CD pipeline management
• Mentor software and DevOps engineers on best practices and standards

• Kubernetes (EKS, GKE, self-hosted), Helm, Istio
• Alerting and log aggregation via ELK Stack
• GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, ArgoCD
• Fluency in scripting languages like Bash, Python

• 5+ years in software development and 3 years of DevOps and or system administration
• BA/BSc/HND