DevOps Engineer

About the Job

Internal/ External Vacancy Announcement

ORGANIZATIONAL OVERVIEW 

The National Election Board of Ethiopia (NEBE), re-established by proclamation No. 1133/2011, is the constitutionally mandated body to conduct elections, organize referendum and regulate political parties in Ethiopia. NEBE is working to boost its’ institutional strength with a special focus on the enhancement of human resource capacity. Accordingly, NEBE would like to invite applicants for DevOps Engineer Position who meet the following requirements.

Required number:         One

Reports to:                     ICT Project Manager        

Duty station:                  NEBE Headquarters, Addis Ababa

Duration:                        Six Months with the possibility of Extension

Salary:                             As per the organization’s salary scale

Job Summary

We are looking for a DevOps Engineer to automate, secure, and scale our infrastructure using cloud-native technologies. You’ll bridge development and operations by implementing CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and monitoring solutions to ensure high availability, performance, and security.

Duties and responsibilities

1. CI/CD & Automation
   • Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, ArgoCD).
   • Manage artifact repositories (Nexus, Artifactory) and container registries (Docker Hub, ECR, GCR).
2. Cloud & Infrastructure Management

Deploy and optimize cloud infrastructure (Teleserver, AWS/GCP/Azure) with services like:

• Compute: ECS, EKS/GKE/AKS, EC2, Lambda, Fargate
  • Networking: VPC, ALB/NLB, Cloudflare
  • Storage: S3, EBS, RDS, DynamoDB

Implement serverless architectures and edge computing (Cloudflare Workers, AWS Lambda@Edge).

Containerization & Orchestration

• Build and manage Docker containers and Kubernetes clusters (EKS, GKE, or self-managed).
• Optimize clusters with Helm charts, Kustomize, and Operators.
• Troubleshoot K8s networking (CNI), storage (CSI), and security (RBAC, OPA).

Monitoring, Logging & Observability

• Set up monitoring/alerting (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, New Relic).
• Centralize logs using ELK Stack, Loki, or OpenSearch.
• Implement distributed tracing (Jaeger, OpenTelemetry).

Security & Compliance

• Enforce security best practices (IAM, Secrets Management, KMS, CIS Benchmarks).
• Automate vulnerability scanning (Trivy, Clair) and patch management.
• Ensure compliance with SOC2, GDPR, HIPAA.

Performance Optimization

• Conduct load testing (Locust, k6) and cost optimization (AWS Cost Explorer, Spot Instances).
• Tune database performance (PostgreSQL, Redis, Cassandra).

About You

Education and Experience

BSc. CS, CE, SE and related fields with min 3 yrs of experience

Technical Skills

• Cloud Platforms: AWS/GCP/Azure (certifications preferred).
  • Containers & K8s: Docker, Nomad, Kubernetes (CKA/CKAD a plus).
  • CI/CD Tools: GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Jenkins.
  • Scripting: Bash, Python, or Go.
  • Monitoring: Prometheus, Grafana, Kibana, ELK.

Soft Skills

• Strong problem-solving and collaboration with Dev/QA teams.
  • Ability to document processes and mentor junior engineers.

Bonus Skills:

• GitOps (FluxCD, ArgoCD).
  • Service Mesh (Istio, Linkerd).
  • Multi-cloud/Edge deployments.

Requirement Skill Programming language (R, Python, Scala, Matlab)

How to Apply

INTERESTED APPLICANTS ARE INVITED TO SEND NON-RETURNABLE:

• Application letter that explains why you fit the post, an updated CV, and three work-related referees;
• Application letter & resume should be saved by the full name of the applicant.
• Only short-listed candidates will be contacted for further screening.
• Those who are interested can only apply through the attached link         https://nebe-election.org/apply, within 10 days from this announcement.

Female candidates are encouraged to apply!