SOFTWARE DEVELOPER (DevOps) wanted at The Botswana Institute for Technology Research and Innovation

 

Company: The Botswana Institute for Technology Research and Innovation

Reference # IST 2019/2

Contract Type Contract:  5 Years

Salary: Market Related

Location: Gaborone, South East, Botswana

 

Introduction

The Botswana Institute for Technology Research and Innovation (BITRI) is a science and technology research institute established by the Government of Botswana. It is a parastatal under the Ministry of Tertiary Education, Research, Science and Technology. BITRI was established to undertake research, identify and or develop appropriate technologies in line with national priorities and needs of Botswana.

Main Purpose of the Job:

In this position, you will help to design, configure and maintain various environments such as development, QA and production to support full project life cycle. You will help to deploy and operate both internal and client production systems. You will help to automate and streamline operations and processes that are already in place to create a more efficient and beneficial environment. You will be expected to work alongside various teams such as developers, testers and system administrators throughout the full project life cycle.

Some of the responsibilities will include:

• Design and implement build, deployment, and configuration management

•Build and test automation tools for infrastructure provisioning

•Handle code deployments in all environments

•Monitor metrics, suggest monitoring tools and develop ways to improve

•Provide technical guidance and educate team members and coworkers on development and operations

•Continually explore new ideas and ways to improve development delivery

•Build, maintain, and monitor configuration standards

•Manage CI and CD tools with team

•Design and document various processes as well as update existing ones

•Improve infrastructure development and application development

•Follow all best practices and procedures as established by company

•Manage and administer Linux servers/VMs

Requirements

Qualifications:

A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or any equivalent qualification acceptable to BITRI is required. Relevant professional certifications will be an added advantage during the selection process.

Experience:

•Experience of at least 2 years in a similar role (DevOps preferable)

•Exposure to multiple Linux-based operating systems including CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu, RedHat

•Experience within a DevOps environment will be an added advantage

•Support experience (software or infrastructure)

•Scripting experience with Puppet, Chef or Terraform

•Cloud experience will be of added advantage (Azure/AWS)

•Any exposure to development languages such as Java, PHP or Python is of added advantage

•Experience with container technology such as Docker

•Knowledge of Spring framework

Required Competencies

•Good communication skills, ability and interest to work across a range of different programmes, good organizational skills, attention to detail and ability to work independently.

•Ability to work under tight schedules and work beyond prescribed working-hours.

•Eagerness to learn, work and train colleagues with passion

•Good project management skills

Required Competencies

•Good communication skills, ability and interest to work across a range of different programmes, good organizational skills, attention to detail and ability to work independently.

•Ability to work under tight schedules and work beyond prescribed working-hours.

•Eagerness to learn, work and train colleagues with passion

•Good project management skills

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Job Closing Date 28/06/2019