Vacant Job For Team Lead, DevOps at Andela, 13th September, 2018

⏲ Sep 13, 2018, 9:09 AM
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Andela is a network of technology leaders dedicated to advancing human potential. We help companies build high-performing distributed engineering teams by investing in Africa’s most talented software developers. Based in NYC, SF, Lagos, Nairobi, and Kampala, Andela is catalyzing the growth of tech ecosystems across the African continent while solving the global technical talent shortage. We are recruiting to fill the position below: Job Title: Team Lead, DevOps Locations: Lagos, Nigeria Nairobi, Kenya Kampala, Uganda About the Role In this role, you will primarily work as a Team Lead within the Talent Development department leading a team of apprenticing engineers to ensure that all Andela internal applications and underlying infrastructure are stable and state of the art. As the senior member of your team, you will take responsibility for the overall planning, execution and success of complex technical projects. You will work closely with the product management and other team leads to ensure we're building an infrastructure that meets and supports our product needs. You will take pride in managing production systems that are key to helping Andela grow and scale as an organization. You will be responsible for managing the delivery of your work as well as any engineer that work under you. Responsibilities (Include, but are not limited to)

Promote and nurture good team practices such as TDD, code reviews, and pair programming
Bring vision to the team in the form of new technology recommendations, ideas and approaches
Mentor entry-level DevOps engineers willing to become world-class
Leverage cognitive apprenticeship methods to support the learning of entry-level apprentices
Work closely with Product Managers and Team Leads to understand the infrastructure needs
Manage production systems and application deployments
Design, implement, and enhance monitoring, metrics, and log aggregation systems
Design, implement, and enhance deployment automation tools
Share responsibility for strategically scaling Andela’s internal systems

What Makes You a Great Fit for this Role

The ability to be located in Lagos, Nigeria or Nairobi, Kenya.
2-5 years building and shipping software products with a DevOps perspective
Experience leading a team of engineers in an agile environment (daily standups, sprint planning, retrospectives, etc)
TDD and pair programming experience
Programming and scripting experience (Bash, Python or Javascript is mandatory)
Experience in deploying and maintaining production environments in Google Cloud
Experience with configuration management tools (Ansible, Chef, Puppet)
Experience with monitoring tools (Prometheus, Graphana, New Relic)
Experience setting up Vagrant or Docker
Experience setting up and managing a continuous integration and delivery process (Jenkins, Concourse)
Highly collaborative with experience building rapport, confidence and trust among all team members.
A Bachelor's or advanced degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science or a related field.

You’re the kind of person who:

Has a clear passion and expertise in Software Development and DevOps
Is constantly learning and expanding your skillsets on and off the job.
Can mentor entry-level DevOps engineers willing to become world-class.
Is driven by purpose, passion, thirst for knowledge, and the pursuit of a better world.

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