Website One Acre Fund
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.
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
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