Engineering | Nairobi, Kenya
COMPANY OVERVIEW
Bridge International Academies is transforming education by attacking one of the emerging world’s biggest problems: inadequate access to and quality of education for the children of families living on less than $2/day. As of May 2014, Bridge is operating over 300 academies in Kenya with almost 100,000 pupils, and has aggressive global expansion planned for 2014 and beyond.
Bridge International Academies offers a tremendous opportunity to grow with one of the world’s most exciting, ambitious, and socially conscious companies, with roles available across a number of competencies and geographies. We look forward to getting to know you!
ROLE OVERVIEW
We are looking for a full time Development Operations (DevOps) Engineer to join our technology team that powers and improves efficiency to enhance our competitive advantage.
RESPONSIBILITIES
The key responsibilities will include:
- Serve as primary interface between the Engineering and Corporate IT organizations
- Define, implement, and maintain the development and production environment architecture, including servers, databases, and tools
- Work with the Quality Assurance/Release Engineering team to implement and maintain our product testing environment
- Implement Continuous Integration systems
- Solution design and development
- Implementation and debugging
- Maintain high levels of system security, integrity, and uptime
- Participate in the building of tools and processes to support and improve the infrastructure
EXPERIENCE AND EXPERTISE
- You have a BA/BS in Computer Science or related technical field
- You have at least 6 years of IT experience in a software development environment
- You are comfortable recommending and advocating for enterprise architectural best practices for high-availability, scalability and reliability implementations
- You have strong familiarity with cloud-based infrastructure environments, particularly Amazon EC2/EBS
- You have familiarity with SOA architectures and relational database systems
- You are familiar with development and testing environments and management tools such as Hudson/Jenkins, Jira, ActiveDirectory, .NET, Git, Puppet/Chef, Nagios, and related components
- You are comfortable with being on-call for a globally distributed development and production environment
- You function well in a fast-paced, informal environment where constant change is the norm and the bar for quality is set high
- You are in expert in four or more of the following technologies, and interested in learning the rest:
- C#/.NET development
- Android/Java development
- MS SQL Server
- SharePoint
- SQL, and SQL Reporting Services
- Web services
- Application clustering and load balancing
- Systems security
- Cloud architectures/implementations
Examples of our Software Needs
The following are examples some of the software projects that are currently under development or consideration:
- Automated Student Payment Information System – manages billing, automatically updates database with data from banks and mobile payment systems, provides tools for operator to correct and assign payments, and uses SMS interface to send coded updates to Schools, and receive interactive SMS queries and remote error correction.
- Customized integrated financial system – taking customizable financial package and integrating with payment information system, reporting tools, and developing additional tools for automated budget tracking, and SMS-based payment requests and school payroll.
- Data Management and Dashboard/Reporting Tools for HQ staff to support schools – we are developing tools that collect key performance data and provide dashboards/reports to allow support teams to monitor progress of our schools.
- Android Mobile Phone App - We have ported many of our paper-based processes at our schools to a mobile phone app on the Android platform to streamline school operations.
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