eHealth DevOps Engineer at Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF)

Introduction

• Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international independent medical humanitarian organization that provides assistance to people affected by conflicts, epidemics, and natural or human-made disasters and excluded from healthcare. We provide this assistance without discrimination, irrespective of race, religion, creed or political affiliation.

Rationale/Objective for Position

• MSF OCB (Operational Centre of Brussels) ICT unit delivers ICT services to MSF field teams (approx. 6000 users) in about 40 countries around the world and to +/- 500 users in Headquarters. In a rapidly evolving digital landscape, the OCB ICT unit is a field-centric and people-inspired team and our vision is to “digitally empower MSF to improve our humanitarian and medical impact”. It aims to provide and support MSF with a “fit-for-purpose, reliable and secure digital ecosystem that is responsive to MSF operational and organisational needs”. It enables new and more effective ways of working; enhances transversal collaboration between functional departments, supports exploration and innovation.
• Integrated within the ICT DevOps team, as an eHealth devops engineer you will support your colleagues in the eHealth unit and the countries where we have deployed our principal applications, Bahmni and DHIS2, on Linux. The eHealth team is responsible for the functional and user-facing aspects of our health information systems and medical databases. You will work with the eHealth Project Managers and Technical Advisors on the requirements definition, development, configuration, test development, user acceptance testing, user training, deployment and long-term maintenance and services. The job is based in our regional office in Nairobi, Kenya. You will be involved in the whole software development lifecycle (SDLC) of new and existing eHealth projects.

Tasks & Responsibilities 
We expect you to collaborate closely with the other members of the team (program/project managers, integrators/developers) and even with senior users:

• Assist the eHealth team in defining the strategies and roadmap for eHealth applications.
• Provide technical advice to the eHealth team.
• Act as 3rd line technical support on the eHealth projects.
• Evolve our application environment towards best practices.
• Implement and support technical implementation of eHealth solutions.
• Support functional stakeholders in market intelligence and vendor selection.
• Supporting Mobile Implementation officers and/or the eHealth applications administrators.
• During field trips troubleshoot, provides functional and operational support and monitors eHealth applications.
• Proactively collaborate on eHealth related technologies with relevant actors across the MSF movement.

Qualifications
Education & Experience

• Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems Management, or related fields, or equivalent workforce experience.
• Experience of at least 5 years in devops or system administration.
• Experience with MSF or other NGO’s in similar contexts will be an advantage.
• Languages: good command of English; French is an asset.

Competencies

• You are autonomous, self-organized, pragmatic, flexible, and a team player.
• You can adapt to changing circumstances, contexts, tasks, responsibilities, and people.
• You are an active listener capable of challenging given situations with adequate methodology, and with a strong. ability to synthesize, and good at communicating.
• You are curious and a fast learner; you are open to share your ideas.
• You’re a good generalist.
• Familiarity with project management concepts and methodologies is an asset.
• Familiarity with documentation systems and collaboratives tools is an asset.

Technical Knowledge

• Must have knowledge of Bahmni, OpenMRS, and DHIS2.
• Must have knowledge of software development lifecycle.
• Should have knowledge of Linux, Docker, CI/CD principles, version control using Git.
• Should have knowledge of the Internet protocols such as TCP/IP, HTTP, and DNS.
• Experience of Python, Java, JavaScript, NodeJS, NixOS, or Kubernetes is a plus.
• Experience in database design, administration, reporting, and analysis of data needs is a plus.
• Experience with web & application servers (Apache, Tomcat, Nginx) is an asset.
• Experience with middleware technologies & patterns is an asset.
• Experience of Web Services: REST, SOAP is an asset.