DevOps Engineer

Cape Town, SOUTH AFRICA Engineering Full-Time

DevOps CI/CD CouchDB Elasticsearch Redis RabbitMQ Riak Kafka Linux

About the Position:

Our Global technology team helps to develop and improve our platform’s architecture design for expressing end-to-end system workflows, both at the functional level and the technical level. Our software provides mission-critical services and data to governments, health practitioners, and vulnerable populations. As such, reliability and confidence in our approach is key and a successful candidate will be able to bring direct experience monitoring and forecasting hardware utilization to ensure high availability.

Dimagi is looking for a DevOps Engineer to join our Global Technology team. This position can be based out of our office in Cape Town but is also open to remote employment within South Africa. The DevOps Engineer must be able to work during the Eastern US work hours (9 am - 5 pm) with occasional coverage of Pacific US work hours.

Dimagi’s technology is being utilized for the COVID-19 response, and we are looking for engineers to assist with this effort. We are looking for a DevOps Engineer to support us in our efforts to improve, maintain, and design our approach to the hardware and cloud services that back our core software in AWS. Our software is driven by a modern, horizontally scalable architecture, so experience with both optimizing vertical utilization of services and managing sharded and distributed systems is essential. This position is ideal for someone who enjoys small organizations, multi-tasking, and a highly flexible work environment. Our engineers share a passion for making things work in challenging situations and seeing the impact of our work first-hand.

Responsibilities of this role:

Infrastructure automation
Hardware requirements forecasting
Provisioning new systems / subsystems
Systems administration
Monitoring / alerting
Maintenance
Systems configuration
Profiling and tuning critical systems for maximum performance

Who You Must Be:

At least 2+ years of experience with infrastructure and engineering
Understanding of web application architectures
Experience maintaining production systems in AWS
Experience making infrastructure trade-off decisions at scale
Proficiency with Linux based DB systems
Familiarity with automation tools like Ansible, Chef or Puppet
Proficiency in scripting languages (Python preferred)
Fluency in written and spoken English
Authorized to work in the country of the office for which you are applying

Essential Systems Experience

Performance tuning Linux based DB systems (PostgreSQL, Oracle, or equivalent)
CI/CD

Bonus Points:

Familiarity with any of the following systems:

CouchDB
Elasticsearch
Redis
RabbitMQ
Riak
Kafka
Container orchestration

Dimagi

Dimagi was born from the belief that there’s a better way to provide services to those in need. Our mission is to create digital products that support global development efforts and help accelerate the end of extreme poverty. CommCare, our mobile data collection platform, is designed to improve data collection and the quality of frontline services in low-resource settings around the world. We work across various sectors with organizations of all sizes providing mobile solutions that put end-users first. Working with partners that include the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, USAID, CARE International, and the World Bank, Dimagi has successfully implemented CommCare and supported 2,000 projects across 80 countries. Dimagi is a certified Benefit Corporation and leading social enterprise, working since 2002 towards our commitment to making an impact.

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