DevOps Engineer Full Time NEW

Project Background:

Palladium is implementing the USAID-funded Translating Data for Implementation (Data.FI) award. Data.FI is a $180 million project which serves as USAID’s primary mechanism for data, technology, and health information systems to support HIV activities across strategic PEPFAR countries.  Data.FI is part of a suite of large-scale global HIV programs that USAID has awarded and represents the next generation of HIV/AIDS programs. Data.FI plays a key role in USAID’s goals of helping partner countries on their Journey to Self-Reliance and transitioning local organizations to prime recipients of USG funding.

The overall goal of the Data.FI project is to improve global, regional, and national in-depth analyses of HIV epidemiologic and program data that can be directly applied to expedite the achievement of PEPFAR targets to attain and sustain control of the HIV epidemic.  The focus also includes directly supporting host country governments and implementing partners to further enhance existing health information system platforms to inform management responses to well-defined gaps in HIV/AIDS programming.  In order to ensure rapid access to high quality data, Data.FI works towards: accelerating data utilization to rapidly course correct and take to scale cost-effective and impactful activities, models and approaches required to attain and maintain HIV epidemic control; scaling and optimizing in-country health information system capabilities to collect, exchange, adapt, govern, and visualize information in order to track the attainment and maintenance of HIV epidemic control; and supporting the transition of prime funding and implementation to capable local partners.

Position Summary: 

The DevOps Engineer is responsible for maintaining a secure, scalable, and resilient infrastructure environment that supports national digital health platforms. This includes managing CI/CD pipelines, system monitoring, automated deployments, and disaster recovery. The role is vital to ensuring reliable operations across development, staging, and production environments for platforms like DHIS2, eCHIS, and OpenHIM.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Design, build, and manage automated CI/CD pipelines for secure, consistent software releases.
• Provision and manage virtual and physical environments, ensuring high availability, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery readiness.
• Set up monitoring and alerting systems (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana) to proactively manage performance, uptime, and security incidents.
• Implement infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform, Ansible) and containerization strategies using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Manage infrastructure on cloud and hybrid environments (AWS, Azure, local data centers) in line with donor and MoH security protocols.
• Enforce access control, data encryption, and cybersecurity compliance across infrastructure components.
• Provide technical support to developers for troubleshooting environment and deployment issues.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in IT, Systems Engineering, or a related field.
• At least 4 years of experience in DevOps or infrastructure engineering.
• Proficiency in CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI, etc.), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience managing cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, or similar).
• Familiarity with monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana), security protocols, and scripting (Bash, Python).

How To Apply

Apply Link: https://palladium.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/2/home/requisition/24149?c=palladium&sq=req24149

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