Description
DHIS 2 is a web-based, open source data platform used by governments, international development agencies and NGOs in more than 90 countries worldwide. It is currently recognized as the world's most widely adopted e-health information platform. The system is used to improve access and use of information within health, education, sanitation, nutrition, disaster relief and other domains. The platform has become a global standard within international development and has a huge impact on the way health systems are being managed. Read more at dhis2.org.
The DHIS2 release team are looking for a DevOps engineer to support and expand ongoing automation processes, as well as assisting with test and release activities across the DHIS2 ecosystem. This is a junior to mid-level position.
Responsibilities
Core responsibilities will be maintaining and developing tools for process automation under the guidance of the QA and Release team.
The processes cover areas such as:
- Infrastructure management for the DHIS2 testing, training and development environments.
- Automated and "self-service" deployment of DHIS2 software to test infrastructure
- DHIS2 software release packaging
- Deployment of DHIS2 metadata packages to test infrastructure
- DHIS2 metadata release packaging
- Support for documentation generation
- Support for localisation in software, packages and documentation
Qualifications and skills
The ideal candidate will have a degree in computer science or equivalent and one or more years experience with DevOps-related automation technologies, in particular:
- Scripting
- Bash
- Python
- Web technologies
- HTML/CSS
- Javascript
- Nginx
- Tomcat
- Infrastructure Automation
- Ansible / AWX (Tower)
- Terraform
- Cloud Services
- AWS
- OpenStack
In addition, we are looking for someone with the following personal qualities:
- Excellent problem solver
- Fast learner who can adapt to different technical challenges
- Motivated to support the team
- Strong communication skills
Location
Remote or in Oslo, Norway.
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