DevOps Engineer / Linux Administrator Job at eHealth4everyone

eHealth4everyone is a digital health enterprise based in Nigeria (Africa) contributing to health service delivery using data science and information technology. At ehealth4everyone, our goal is saving lives and our approach is information and technology. We believe that if health is a right, proven digital health solutions and expertise such as ours should not be a privilege.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: DevOps Engineer / Linux Administrator
Job Location: Abuja (FCT)

Job Summary

• We are looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer/Linux Administrator to build functional systems that improve customer experience, and collaborate with software developers, system operators, and other IT team members to manage code releases.

Responsibilities

• Deploy product updates and fixes.
• Identify production issues and implement integrations that meet customer needs.
• Perform root cause analysis for production errors.
• Investigate and resolve technical issues.
• Deployment and maintenance of open source software for a variety of purposes which include but are not limited to asset management, wiki applications, etc.
• Design procedures for system troubleshooting and maintenance.
• Execute and automate operational processes fast, accurately, and securely.
• Build tools to reduce the occurrence of errors and improve customer experience.
• Develop software to integrate with internal back-end systems.
• Continuously analyze system performance in production, troubleshoot reported issues, and proactively identify areas in need of optimization.
• Developing and driving real-time monitoring solutions that provide visibility into site health and key performance indicators.

Qualifications and Skills

• Degree in Computer Science / Computer Engineering or other related areas.
• Must have at least 3 years of working experience as a DevOps Engineer.
• Demonstrable experience in Linux Administration.
• Knowledge of scripting and automation (Python, Bash, etc).
• Demonstrable experience with CI/CD tools for pipeline creation and management to facilitate deployment and release management e.g. GitLab, Jenkins, CircleCI, etc
• Skills in Relational Database Administration, Systems Security, and Design.
• Technical experience working with cloud technologies.
• Working understanding of Load-balancing technologies
• Working understanding of IT service management.
• Experience with Chef, Docker, Puppet, or Ansible, automating all aspects of the system and server.
• Solid background in the deployment of web applications based on Python,Vue.js and Node.js.
• Good understanding of distributed systems and container technologies like Docker/Kubernetes container infrastructure and orchestration.
• Experience with DNS, Networking, and High Availability solutions.
• Experience with web servers in a Linux environment, i.e. Nginx, Apache2, and techniques for load balancing and SSL configuration
• Good understanding of monitoring tools such as Prometheus and Grafana for server monitoring and notifications
• Teamwork, problem-solving attitude, decision-making, customer orientation.