DevOps Engineer at Healthforce.io

THE ROLE

Healthforce is a lean, low ego, highly skilled team of multidisciplinary experts, including healthcare, product, engineering, analytics, organisational development and training. We are product-led, meaning we always start with what our customers need and work as a team to deliver from there. Our team uses modern tools and practices and customer-centric ways of working.

As a DevOps engineer, you will join an exciting new product team poised to transform healthcare delivery in South Africa and parts of Africa. You will work with a multidisciplinary team to provide ingenious solutions to business problems using the latest technologies. In addition, you will practice and champion best practices throughout the SDLC process and mentor other engineers.

WHAT WILL YOU BE DOING

Develop and maintain high-quality infrastructure. Build our Infrastructure and DevOps roadmap. Research and implement new/best DevOps practices and processes, including automation, CI/CD and service discovery.

Collaboration. Work closely with other engineers, product managers, business analysts, product designers and various other stakeholders across the organisation to understand the problem and provide insightful input on designing the best software solution. 

Mentor other engineers. Mentor other engineers, participate in code reviews and provide feedback to your peers.

Continuous improvement. Advocate for and introduce improvements to our development, testing, CI, automation, and architecture. This will improve the engineering team's coding best practices and processes. Maintain multiple, consistent environments. 

Support deployed applications and environments. We are always proactive in considering the experience of the customer. You will do the same by swiftly attending to and resolving issues experienced in production. 

Enforce security principles and practices as needed.

Importantly, you need to be socially minded and should want to apply your creativity and skills to reimagining the way out-of-hospital healthcare can be delivered to all South Africans when enabled by technology.

CULTURE

Healthforce’s culture is central to how we do things. We help people, we are aware, and our experience informs our pragmatic approach. That translates into specific behaviours we expect of each other internally and in how we serve our external stakeholders:

• the ability to connect, 
• the ability to plan
• the ability to keep people informed
• the ability to deliver
• the ability to learn and grow

KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE

• At least 4+ years of experience in DevOps and Infrastructure
• Expert-level understanding and hands-on experience on cloud platform and architecture like AWS
• Solid expertise and mindset on Cloud-based security solutions and architecture design and implementation.
• With knowledge and skills in Docker, Kubernetes, infrastructure design (networking, load balancing, CDN, middleware including but not limited to message queue - Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc.), automation (Ansible, Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.) and CI/CD Pipeline 
• Corresponding development experiences on micro-services-based frontend and backend applications are preferred.
• You have worked and understand agile software development methodologies.

EDUCATION

• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent working experience.
• Short courses to keep up to speed with modern development practices.