Intermediate DevOps - Live & Work in Uganda
TLDR
Scale a Laravel-based mobile banking platform across multiple African markets, enhance deployment security, and optimize devops-to-production workflows while mentoring local developers.
Ensibuuko is building mobile banking software in Uganda and throughout Africa.
Frontier Foundry, Ed Levinson, and other Canadian investors have been supporting the company for over a year.
We've sent three people from Vancouver to live & work in Uganda since January 2017. As some of the team comes back to Canada, we're looking to send a new crew to help build the product and help build capacity around software development best practices with the local team.
For this role, we are looking at running servers in multiple countries, and configuring secure deployments and remote maintenance strategies. This may require travel to other countries in Africa for short periods.
What We're Looking For
You're a developer with intermediate sysadmin / devops skills
You would like to live and work in Kampala, Uganda for 3+ months. You've traveled or worked remotely before, or otherwise have had experience with other cultures.
You have experience with modern PHP frameworks and the LAMP stack.
You are comfortable with Linux system administration
You are comfortable working with real hardware and colos. You're willing to "figure it out" when it comes to figuring out janky networks across countries.
You can help improve deployment, security, and other devops-to-production flows
Bonus:
- you've shipped Laravel apps in the past
- have experience with banking / accounting apps
- have knowledge of security
- data networking and/or cell network experience
About the Product
New versions of the software are being built with a modern Laravel PHP stack, chosen in part because of familiarity with PHP and related technologies by the local ecosystem
There are engagements with credit cooperatives of sizes varying from 300 to 300,000 end users. Working with product leads, large client requirements need to be analyzed and prioritized
Several junior developers have been hired and trained. Continued training, mentoring, and hiring will need to be done to keep growing the team.
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