DevOps Engineer

🕒 April 30

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Open Function

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11 - 50 employees

🏢 Enterprise

☁️ SaaS

🤝 Non-profit

Enterprise • SaaS • Non-profit

Open Function is the leading digital public good for workflow automation, offering a 100% open-source platform that is trusted by governments, NGOs, and social enterprises worldwide. It enables organizations to build powerful automated workflows to eliminate tedious tasks, automate data integration, and facilitate secure data exchange. By providing interoperability among disparate technologies, Open Function allows for scalability and improved efficiency in managing critical business processes. Known for simplifying integrations and providing a reliable digital infrastructure, Open Function supports data transformation, real-time data management, and compliance with international standards like GDPR and HIPAA.

📋 Description

• Build World-Class Deployment, Monitoring, and Instance-Maintenance Tooling • Develop and maintain devops tooling (ansible, terraform, custom CLI programs), deployment runbooks, configuration templates, and documentation that allow the teams and people responsible for deploying, monitoring, and maintaining instances of OpenFn to succeed. • Deliver On-Premise and Local Deployments • Lead and execute OpenFn deployments on government and ministry-managed infrastructure, including air-gapped, low-connectivity, and sovereign-hosting environments. • Configure and maintain containerized deployments using Docker, Docker Compose, and Docker Swarm, and support Kubernetes-based setups where applicable. • Work directly with government IT teams to navigate local infrastructure constraints, security requirements, and network configurations. • Troubleshoot infrastructure and runtime issues in the field, often with limited access to external resources. • Cloud Infrastructure • Maintain and optimize OpenFn deployments on GCP, AWS, and occasionally Azure, including compute, networking, storage, and managed services configuration. • Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines for services team deployments. • Monitor system performance, set up alerting, and respond to infrastructure incidents across cloud-hosted client environments. • Advise implementation teams on cloud architecture decisions and cost optimization. • Internal Standards and Enablement • Build and maintain internal DevOps standards, deployment guides, and infrastructure-as-code templates that the wider services team can use and build on. • Contribute to pre-sales and scoping conversations by advising on infrastructure feasibility, hosting options, and deployment effort for prospective clients. • Work closely with the Principal Solutions Architect and the CTO to ensure deployment strategy is aligned with solution architecture from the start of each engagement.

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in DevOps, infrastructure, or SRE roles, with a track record across both cloud and on-prem environments. • Strong hands-on experience with Docker and containerization; experience with Docker Compose in production is essential. • Solid experience with at least one major cloud provider, GCP & AWS strongly preferred, with working knowledge of Azure. • Experience deploying and maintaining applications on on-premise or sovereign-hosting infrastructure, ideally in government, healthcare, or similarly regulated environments. • Proficiency with CI/CD tools and pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar). • Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or Ansible. • Strong Linux systems administration skills, including networking, storage, and security hardening. • Excellent written and verbal English communication, including the ability to work directly with government IT counterparts who may have limited exposure to modern DevOps practices. • Ability to work from home or a shared office space with fast, stable internet, preferably in a country that is located in Africa/Europe time zones. • Strong advantage: Experience with Kubernetes in production environments. • Familiarity with system monitoring and observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, or similar). • Background working with NGO technology teams, government digital transformation programs, or digital public goods deployments in Africa or Asia. • Working proficiency in French or Spanish.

🏖️ Benefits

• Financial compensation is commensurate with experience. • Flexible working schedule. • Fully remote, with team meetups across Europe and Africa. • Exposure to hottest industry and technology trends and leading health and humanitarian interventions in the sector. • Opportunity for leadership and advancement. You will be a key contributor to our company’s strategy and direction. • The opportunity to shape our strategy and impact millions of lives through our open source software in a small, mission-driven organization.