Senior DevOps Engineer

About One Acre Fund

Founded in 2006, One Acre Fund equips 5.5 million smallholder farmers to make their farms more productive. Across nine countries that together are home to two-thirds of Africa's farmers, we provide high-quality farm supplies, tree seedlings, accessible credit, modern agronomic training, and a wide range of other agricultural services. On average, this model enables any farmer to increase their income and assets on supported land by more than 35 percent, while permanently improving their resilience. This is all made possible by our team of 9,000+ full-time staff, drawn from diverse backgrounds and professions.

To learn more, please see our Why Work Here blog post.

About the Role

The Senior DevOps Engineer is responsible for creating processes as well as designing, implementing, and maintaining the infrastructure and automation tools that enable the continuous delivery and deployment of software products.

Responsibilities

Solution Specifications 

• Design and implement deployment processes and tooling that enable product managers and development teams to proactively identify and address delivery bottlenecks, ensuring smooth and continuous releases.
• Write clear and concise specifications and documentation for the operational requirements and continuous workflow processes 
• Communicate operational requirements and development forecasts to the relevant stakeholders  

Solution Analysis

• Devise and implement technology frameworks to inform and capture solution analysis parameters to accelerate the overall software development process 
• Evaluate existing technology and infrastructure to identify gaps and opportunities, and develop strategic plans and scalable processes to drive modernization, efficiency, and future growth.

Solution Development

• Drive the adoption of best practices in security, performance optimization, and high availability to ensure robust, scalable, and resilient systems.
• Enforce code and other peer review processes to ensure compliance  with quality and overall technical standards

Solution Maintenance

• Build and maintain observability stacks (logging, monitoring, alerting).
• Collaborate with development teams to optimize software delivery workflows.

Product Support

• Contribute to improving processes that drive product support
• Participate in on-call rotations and improve incident management processes.

People Management

• Manages, or could manage, a team of 1-6 engineers 
• Teamwork: 
• Lead design sessions for CI/CD pipeline management
• Mentor software and DevOps engineers on best practices and standards

Career Growth and Development

We have a strong culture of constant learning and we invest in developing our people. You’ll have weekly check-ins with your manager, access to mentorship and training programs, and regular feedback on your performance. We hold career reviews every six months, and set aside time to discuss your aspirations and career goals. You’ll have the opportunity to shape a growing organization and build a rewarding long-term career.

Qualifications

Across all roles, these are the general qualifications we look for. For this role specifically, you will have:

Technical Skills: 

•  5+ years in software development and 3 years of DevOps and or system administration 
• Kubernetes (EKS, GKE, self-hosted), Helm,  Istio
• Alerting and log aggregation via ELK Stack
• GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, ArgoCD
• Fluency in scripting languages like Bash, Python

Knowledge: 

• Background in quality assurance and release management 
• Knowledge of automation tools and CI/CD pipeline management 
• Demonstrated knowledge in performance visibility tools
• Demonstrated experience in virtualization, storage & network management, IT security, and coding & scripting

Preferred Start Date

As soon as possible

Job Location

Kigali, Rwanda or Nairobi, Kenya or JInja, Uganda and Minna, Nigeria

Benefits

Health insurance, housing, and comprehensive benefits

Eligibility

One Acre Fund can support a work permit for this role. However, nationals of (or those with an extensive professional background and work history in) our countries of operation are preferred.

Application Deadline

21 June 2026.Please note that we hire on a rolling basis which means that applications are reviewed and processed on a continuous basis until a hire is made.

One Acre Fund never asks candidates to pay any money or pay for tests at any stage of the interview process. Official One Acre Fund emails will always arrive from an @oneacrefund.org address. Please report any suspicious communication here (globalhotline@oneacrefund.org), but do not send applications or application materials to this email address.

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI), and anti-racism are deeply connected to our organization’s mission and purpose. One Acre Fund aspires to build a culture where all staff feel consistently valued, represented, and connected – so that our team can thrive as professionals, and achieve exceptional impact for the farmers we serve.

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.