Senior DevOps Engineer at One Acre Fund

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.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior DevOps Engineer

Location: Minna, Niger
Employment Type: Full-time

About The Role

• 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.

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 Analysi:

• 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 Developmen:

• 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 Maintenanc:

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

Product Suppor:

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

People Managemen:

• 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.

Qualifications
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.

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.

Application Closing Date
21st June, 2026.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Note

• Please note that we hire on a rolling basis which means that applications are reviewed and processed on a continuous basis until a hire is made.
• One Acre Fund never asks candidates to pay any money or pay for tests at any stage of the interview process. Official One Acre Fund emails will always arrive from an @oneacrefund.orgaddress.
• Please report any suspicious communication here (globalhotline@oneacrefund.org),but do not send applications or application materials to this email address.
• Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI), and anti-racism are deeply connected to our organization’s mission and purpose.
• One Acre Fund aspires to build a culture where all staff feel consistently valued, represented, and connected – so that our team can thrive as professionals, and achieve exceptional impact for the farmers we serve.
• We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression.
• We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.