Backend Programmer / DevOps Engineer at Palladium Group

Palladium is a global leader in the design, development and delivery of Positive Impact - the intentional creation of enduring social and economic value. We work with foundations, investors, governments, corporations, communities and civil society to formulate strategies and implement solutions that generate lasting social, environmental and financial benefits.

We are recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: Backend Programmer / DevOps Engineer

Requisition ID: req12547
Location: Abuja

Project Overview and Role

• Data.FI is a five-year global project funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to support the HIV and COVID-19 response.
• Data.FI partners with programs to accelerate and sustain access to high-quality data to expedite HIV and COVID-19 epidemic control and maintenance. By improving global, regional, national, and community/local in-depth analyses of HIV and COVID-19 epidemiologic and programmatic data, Data.FI expedites program achievements to improve client services and attain and sustain control of the epidemics.
• Data.FI supports host country governments to enhance existing health information systems (HIS), informing management responses to gaps in programming and sustaining impact by supporting local partner transition.

Purpose of Position

• Palladium is seeking to employ a skilled Programmer/DevOps Engineer with high levels of experience in back-end programming and DevOps, who will work closely with the health informatics system (HIS) software solution developers to develop of server-side logic, maintenance, and definition of the central database, while ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end.
• (S)he will also be responsible for the integration of the front-end elements. As a DevOps engineer, (s)he will support the maturity of the microservices architecture for different solutions to achieve full or near-full automation and orchestration of tools.
• (S)he will also support the development teams to improve Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment(CI/CD) tooling and ensuring that they adhere to a strict release management cadence through automation.
• (S)he will additionally support the Quality Assurance team to deploy open-source tools for test case development and execution and develop tools for continuous monitoring of system health and security of all our technological products.
• The Programmer/DevOps Engineer will report to the Health Informatics Lead. This is a full-time position with a  contract for 1 year, renewable subject to availability of funding.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• Developing and Managing APIs resources for LAMISPlus, NOMIS and related system
• Focus on coding and debugging.
• Defining and communicating technical and design requirements.
• Building a high-quality reusable code that can be used in future developments.
• Creating sustainable and functional web applications with clean codes.
• Learning about new technologies and staying up to date with current best practices.
• Conducting UI tests and optimizing performance.
• Automating processes with open-source tools for CI/CD and testing.
• Analysing, executing, and streamlining DevOps practices.
• Facilitating development processes and operations.
• Establishing a continuous build environment to accelerate software deployment and development processes.
• Instituting a DevOps culture within the HIS solutions development team
• Architecting overall, comprehensive, and efficient practices.
• Guiding developers and operations teams to resolve issues.
• Implementing and improving monitoring and alerts across the suite of HIS products by automating performance monitoring, reporting any downtimes and carrying out root cause analysis.
• Designing and improving infrastructure and team collaboration.
• Designing a setup environment for users, making the experience better, more automated and intuitive.
• Keeping all code changes within a single system enabling modifications and testing.
• Optimizing product or update release cycles.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or relevant field.
• At least five (5) years of professional experience directly supporting the development, operations, maintenance and/or security of mission critical systems.  
• Extensive DevOps experience including case handling and resolution, platform security, programming and scripting (Bash, Perl, Python, Java), server management (Linux, Windows, UNIX), and database scripting (SQL, NoSQL and distributed databases).
• Excellent knowledge of software development and software testing methodologies along with configuration management practices in Unix and Linux-based environments.
• Sound knowledge of cloud-based environments.
• Ability to create APIs (REST and SOAP) services is desirable.
• Hands on experience in working with Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• Experience in handling automated deployment CI/CD tools.
• Ability to review deployment and delivery pipelines i.e., implement initiatives to minimize chances of failure, identify bottlenecks and troubleshoot issues.
• Experience in engaging closely with solutions architects and operations teams to deliver highly available and scalable services with minimal/zero downtime.
• Demonstrable experience with Application, Infrastructure Delivery Automation, Orchestration, Configuration Management and Testing tools.
• Excellent knowledge of Micro Service Architecture, RESTfull web service, Spring web socket, JAXB, JSONB, Gradle, Maven, Junit.   
• Experience with databases (MySQL, H2, PostgreSQL) and their integration into web, mobile applications.
• Excellent knowledge of SQL and hands on experience with ORM frameworks such as Hibernate/JPA.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.