Job advertisement for vacant positions in Rwanda Medical Supply Limited (RMS Ltd)

RMS Ltd is a State-owned company created by the Government of Rwanda with the mandate of managing the end-to-end health supply chain for Rwanda. RMS Ltd provides pharmaceuticals and health commodities towards 5 rights: the right patient, the right drug/dose, the right cost, the right route, and the right time. The vision of RMS Ltd is to ensure quality and timely availability of all health commodities to the public through a cost-efficient, sustainable and effective supply chain. Drugs will be available throughout the country through an economical and financially sustainable supply chain that can meet current and future need and manage increasing complexity RMS Ltd is looking for qualified, dedicated & experienced individuals to fill the following position:

DevOps Engineer (Re-Advertised): (1)

DevOps Engineer coordinates and facilitates the work with the help of software developers, system admins, and other IT staff members. They work with collaborated efforts to merge the jobs of developments, operations, testing, and deployment. He/ She is responsible for end to end duties and responsibilities of the DevOps pipeline and DevOps life cycle management.

Duties and responsibilities

• Planning: planning the entire DevOps life cycle management in the strategic project planning meetings. Provide guidance and expertise on costs, benefits, risks, impacts, and other system options. Provide the planning for the operational forecasts and development requirements for the timely and accurate planning of the DevOps pipeline.
• Development: Manage end to end code, build, test, and release activities of the software multiple times a day and on an hourly basis to produce versioned software release with high frequency.
•  Deployment – Provide automated deployment interface and design for the configuration management and deploy the new modules in the production environment from the release environment.
• Troubleshooting and maintenance – facilitate the early detection of errors, bugs, and issues and make the job of the operations and maintenance of the systems easier. Also do routine troubleshooting to provide accurate and requirements specific development of software in the production.
• Performance Management – do the job of all the IT staff, system admins, testers, and developers easy by providing the most suitable, practical, and best recommendations for enhancing the performance of the team as well as software applications with the help of gap analysis and by providing most accurate practical solutions.
• Implement DevOps culture by integrating the teams and functions of coding, build, test, release, deploy, operations, and monitoring.
• Any assigned duty by the supervisor.

Qualification and Skills

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Information and Communication Technology with 2 years of working experience in ICT field. Professional Certificates like A+, Security, Network+ CCNA, ITIL, VCP, MCSE, CCNP, MCITP. MCP, Linux etc.. would be added advantage with maximum of 28 Years old.

Knowledge and technical skills required:

• Knowledge of critical components of an Enterprise Resource Planning Software and System Interoperability requirements
• Knowledge of developing/deploying SaaS applications in Amazon Web Services. Microsoft Azure, or other public cloud environments. Knowledge of building container solutions such as Docker or Kubernetes.
• Knowledge and skills in developing web user interfaces in ReactJS but other advanced web tools and techniques such as AngularJS and jQuery are a plus
• Wide knowledge of operating systems administrations such as windows, Mac, and Linux, programming languages such as Java, Python, etc along with cloud deployments and networking protocols.
• Experience securing micro services and Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA).
• Knowledge of various DevOps tools and tool customizations
• Knowledge of scripting languages, system and server administration, and software deployments
• Experience with various database systems, network security, and cloud systems
• Excellent knowledge of development, testing, release engineering, and performance optimization, etc.
• Able to lead the team, collaborate, and communicate within the team and with stakeholders
• Highly analytical mind and great problem-solving skills
• Outstanding verbal and written communication as well as presentation skills.
• Ability to translate IT jargon to non IT people:

Job application procedure

Interested candidates should send their application documents (in one PDF document) including Curriculum Vitae, copy of ID, copies of education certificates, names of three referees as well as their emails and telephones.

All applications are to be addressed to the Chief Executive Officer of Rwanda Medical Supply Ltd through the following email address: [email protected]

Deadline for application: Friday,14th October, 2022 at 5:00 pm.

NB:

Only applications sent via the above e-mail shall be considered;

Only Candidates with the right qualifications and relevant experience shall be shortlisted and contacted;

Incomplete applications shall be rejected.