DevOps Engineer @ FreshTalent

Job description

We are the leading data and tech driven food distribution company in Tanzania aiming at boosting access to digital commerce for 10,000+ retailers and businesses in Africa. We are a fast-growing Series B startup with 300+ team members committed to sustainability and food innovation. We are lean in execution, results driven and prioritize speed to market. We embrace a lean approach, prioritizing results and maintaining a strong focus on speed and efficiency to deliver go-to-market solutions.

What We Are Looking For

About The Team:

We are establishing an onsite engineering team in Dar-es-Salaam and Nairobi. Key projects include: Farmer management system (FMS), distribution management system (DMS), and ERP. We follow an agile, scrum-based process.

About The Role

We are seeking a skilled DevOps Engineer to join our team and help streamline our software development lifecycle, automate infrastructure, and ensure seamless deployment processes. The ideal candidate will have expertise in CI/CD pipelines, cloud platforms, containerization, and monitoring tools to optimize software delivery and system reliability. Key responsibilities include managing solutions to handle large platform level, multi geographical deployments, maintaining a very high level of data Security and availability. Expect your time breakdown to be rough: 50% on regular deployment activities, 30% on ensuring consistent & optimal performance, and remaining 20% in self improvement and learning.

What Does The Job Involve

• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated deployments.
• Manage cloud-based infrastructure (AWS) and ensure scalability, security, and reliability.
• Utilize containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) for efficient application deployment.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration using tools like Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation.
• Hands-on experience in scripting languages such as shell.
• Monitor system performance (Cloudwatch), troubleshoot issues, and implement proactive solutions.
• Collaborate with development, operations, and security teams to optimize workflows and security practices.
• Implement logging, monitoring, and alerting solutions using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, or Datadog.
• Ensure security best practices for cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and code deployments.
• Optimize cost and resource utilization across cloud environments.
• Work with developers to institute systems, policies, and workflows which allow for a rollback of deployments.
• Triage release of applications to the production environment on a daily basis.
• Worked on different DevOps of different tech stack (java based, node, python)
  

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• Strong experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform or Ansible.
• Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and container orchestration.
• Expertise in CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or CircleCI.
• Knowledge of scripting and automation (Bash, Python, or Go).
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools (Prometheus, ELK Stack, Grafana).
• Understanding of networking, security, and Linux system administration.
• Familiarity with version control systems (Git).
• Supporting database systems like MySQL, MongoDB
• System administration tasks in Linux or Unix and familiarity with standard IT security practices (such as encryption, certificates, key management)
• Able to understand the security tools and best practices: CIS Benchmarking, OS hardening, vulnerability scanning, system auditing
• Our stack includes;
• Node, Django, React, Flutter, ERPNext (Frappe)
• Firebase, Mapbox
• AWS
• Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket
• Comfortable with monolith and distributed system architectures
  

Our hiring process

We aim to go through the initial interview to offer stage in 3-4 weeks:

• 1st interview: Screening call with the People and Culture Manager
• 2nd interview: Technical interview
• 3rd interview: Culture interview & presentation with the senior management panel
• Offer stage
  

Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits such as;
• Health & life insurance
• Paid time off – 28 days a year
  

Skills: devops,cloud platforms,aws,scripting languages,monitoring tools,kubernetes,ansible,docker,database systems,azure,ci/cd pipelines,ci/cd,infrastructure as code (iac),networking,linux system administration,devops tools,iac,terraform,containerization

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