Senior DevOps Engineer - Kasha

About Kasha

Kasha will disrupt the way that people in emerging markets get the health products they need by turning global health supply chains upside down. We are on our way to becoming Africa’s leading platform for last-mile access to health products and services used by enterprises, consumers, resellers, and health facilities. Kasha focuses on the lower-income mass market population, selling health and household goods and delivering those products to the last mile through our Kasha Agents and logistics networks. Customers can order using an omnichannel mobile platform that is built to be highly accessible around the country, reaching even typically offline customers via our digital channels. Kasha also works with manufacturers and global health organizations, operating as a service channel for visibility on distribution, performance data, consumer insights, and last-mile access. Kasha was founded in July 2016 in Rwanda, and operates in East, South, Central, and West Africa. You can learn more about us at Kasha Global Inc.

About the Role

Responsible for overseeing the development and operations processes to ensure seamless integration, continuous delivery, and efficient deployment pipelines. They lead the design and implementation of CI/CD workflows, infrastructure automation, and monitoring solutions, collaborating closely with development, QA, and IT teams to drive reliability, scalability, and performance in software delivery. This role also involves mentoring the team to establishing best practices in cloud infrastructure, security, and configuration management.This role can be based in Rwanda, Kenya, South Africa and/or Egypt. Responsibilities

• Work closely with the rest of the Engineering team to release New Versions of Software.
• Management of the Infrastructure (AWS, Nexcess, Google Cloud platform, and our 3rd party tools) - Perform Routine checks on CPU usage, Memory, Spikes, and keep tabs on other metrics as necessary.
• Documentation: Write specifications and documentation for the server-side features.
• Systems analysis: Analyze the technology we currently use and develop plans and processes for improvement, automation, and expansion.
• Maintenance and troubleshooting: Perform routine application maintenance to ensure the production environment runs smoothly.
• Develop and enforce maintenance requirements and procedures.
• Prioritize the most critical backups needed and address at least one in every month and resolve all failed backup alerts within the quarter.
• Ensure 100% of critical systems are backed up in a timely manner to limit data loss and mitigate against irreversible damage to our systems.
• Ensure our applications are scanned for vulnerabilities on a regular basis and keep the system security up to date.
• Investigate and Integrate code pipeline tools to scan our codebase for security issues.
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