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DevOps Engineer
About Complete Farmer
Complete Farmer is an end-to-end agricultural marketplace that connects African farmers to global markets through cutting-edge technology, innovative farming protocols, and data-driven insights. We are transforming agriculture into a profitable, scalable, and sustainable venture for all stakeholders—from farmers to buyers—while ensuring the highest standards of quality and efficiency. We believe in leveraging technology to solve Africa’s most pressing agricultural challenges and to create new opportunities for growth and impact.
Position Description
As a DevOps Engineer, you will design, implement, and maintain the cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and system monitoring tools that keep Complete Farmer’s technology platforms secure, scalable, and reliable. You will work closely with our engineering teams to automate workflows, optimize performance, and ensure high availability for our web, mobile, and data services.
What You’ll Do:
- Design, implement, and manage cloud infrastructure (primarily AWS/Azure/GCP) to support production, staging, and development environments
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for multiple applications, ensuring rapid and reliable deployment of code
- Automate provisioning, configuration, and scaling of infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation
- Monitor system health, application performance, and security compliance using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, New Relic, or Datadog
- Implement and manage containerization strategies using Docker and orchestration platforms like Kubernetes or ECS
- Collaborate with software engineers to optimize build processes and improve system reliability and release speed
- Set up logging, alerting, and on-call rotation to guarantee uptime and quick incident response
- Ensure robust backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity procedures
- Enforce best practices for cloud security, access control, and network configurations
- Conduct regular cost optimization reviews to ensure efficient cloud resource usage
- Support audits and maintain documentation for infrastructure, deployment processes, and policies
- Provide mentorship and guidance to developers on DevOps best practices and tooling
What You’ll Bring:
- 4+ years of hands-on DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering experience in high-availability production environments
- Proven expertise with at least one major cloud platform (AWS preferred) and infrastructure automation tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible)
- Strong skills in CI/CD technologies (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or similar)
- Proficiency in containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes, ECS, or similar)
- Experience with Linux administration, networking fundamentals, and shell scripting
- Familiarity with programming or scripting languages such as Python, Go, or Bash
- Solid understanding of security best practices, including secrets management and identity/access control
- Experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog, etc.)
- Strong troubleshooting skills and ability to diagnose complex system issues
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field. Equivalent professional experience will be considered
Who You Are:
- Analytical and proactive, with a knack for anticipating system challenges before they occur
- Detail-oriented and methodical, with a passion for reliability, automation, and elegant solutions
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced startup environment where priorities can shift quickly
- Collaborative and supportive, able to bridge the gap between development and operations
- Committed to security, scalability, and best practices in all aspects of infrastructure management
To join us
Be the backbone of Complete Farmer’s engineering operations and keep our platforms running flawlessly. If you’re ready to design resilient infrastructure, automate everything from deployments to monitoring, and ensure our global AgriTech ecosystem stays fast and secure, this is the role for you.
Apply now and help us secure the future of agriculture.
Let us know if you have any questions by emailing us at [email protected]