We are Helium Health…
A full-service Healthtech company on a journey to digitize healthcare across Africa. We have been doing this since 2016, and our pioneering approach has helped to transform healthcare delivery systems across Sub-Saharan Africa and the GCC, creating an alternative vision for patients and providers, whilst facilitating hundreds of thousands of high-quality patient experiences every month.
We are very good at creating for the market we live in, because we fully understand from our own experiences. Our innovative and reliable products are engineered for the nuances of the African landscape, empowering frontline providers to deliver excellent healthcare to patients. Our products span Provider Digitization, Financial Solutions, and Public Health & Data Partnerships, including HeliumOS, HeliumDoc, HeliumCredit, HeliumWallet, and HeliumCares.
We are seeking a DevOps Engineer who will be responsible for designing, implementing and maintaining complex infrastructures in a high paced production environment. S/he must have experience in continuous integration, continuous deployment, application performance monitoring, and alerting systems.
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with product management, operations, quality and software engineers to deliver the right solution.
- Configure, and develop against remote infrastructure in AWS.
- Design and engineer the DevOps CI\CD tooling and platform roadmap and own the lifecycle of these platforms.
- Seamlessly integrate DevOps with infrastructure and automation orchestration platforms through established architectural patterns (e.g. APIs).
- Work with, and support the development team with application configuration of cloud-based infrastructure for deployment, monitoring and other automation
- Ensure all services are hardened and security best practices are followed during the automated CI\CD processes.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline
- 3 - 5 years professional experience in DevOps
- Containerisation and microservice build and deployment - Docker, Kubernetes
- Proficient with Python and Bash. Able to read, understand, and troubleshoot code in Elixir, PHP, JavaScript, or similar languages alongside developers.
- Experience building reusable Terraform code and modules. Experience migrating existing cloud resources into IaC management is a plus.
- Hands-on experience with Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki, including instrumenting services, building dashboards, and defining alerting rules for logs and metrics.
- Experience with AWS and Azure
- Optimisation of the application for maximum speed and scalability
- Experience working with Agile teams.
- Experience with Git, Jenkins, Docker, Ansible/Chef/Puppet or similar tools
- Pride in readable, well-designed/architected, well-tested software.
- Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and key-value stores ( Redis)
- Good oral and written communication skills
- Experience incorporating best security practices into the SDLC process.
Benefits
This role offers a competitive pay.
Helium Health is an equal opportunity employer, thus it is not biased in its employment to any race, colour, creed, religion, sex or physical disability.
