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. Headquartered in Bungoma, Kenya, the organization works with farmers in rural villages throughout Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania and recently Malawi. Using a market-based approach, One Acre Fund facilitates activities and transactions at various levels of the farming value chain, including seed sourcing and market support. In 2013, farmers who worked with One Acre Fund realized a 180% return on their investment and significantly increased farm income on every planted acre.
About The Role
- 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 Specification:
- 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 Analysi:
- 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 Developmen:
- 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 Maintenanc:
- Build and maintain observability stacks (logging, monitoring, alerting).
- Collaborate with development teams to optimize software delivery workflows.
Product Suppor:
- Contribute to improving processes that drive product support
- Participate in on-call rotations and improve incident management processes.
People Managemen:
- 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.
Qualifications
Across all roles, these are the general qualifications we look for. For this role specifically, you will have:
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
Knowledge:
- Background in quality assurance and release management
- Knowledge of automation tools and CI/CD pipeline management
- Demonstrated knowledge in performance visibility tools
- Demonstrated experience in virtualization, storage & network management, IT security, and coding & scripting.
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.
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