SENIOR DEVOPS ENGINEER AT ONE ACRE FUND | ENGINEERING JOBS IN NIGER

About Company:

One Acre, founded in 2006, supplies smallholder farmers with the agricultural services they need to make their farms more productive. We provide quality farm supplies on credit, delivered within walking distance of farmers’ homes, and agricultural trainings to improve harvests. We measure our success by our ability to make farmers more prosperous: On average, farmers harvest 50 percent more food after working with One Acre Fund. We serve more than 800,000 farm families in Eastern and Southern Africa, with more than 7,500 full-time staff, and we aim to serve 1 million farm families by 2020.

Job Description:

• 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.

Key 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 Analyst:

• 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 Development:

• 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 Maintenance:

• Build and maintain observability stacks (logging, monitoring, alerting).
• Collaborate with development teams to optimize software delivery workflows.

Product Support:

• Contribute to improving processes that drive product support
• Participate in on-call rotations and improve incident management processes.

People Management:

• 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.

Requirements:

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.

Benefits:

• Health insurance, housing, and comprehensive benefits.

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.

Salary

Application Closing Date: 21st June, 2026

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