Global Devops Pipeline Manager at Jhpiego

Overview

• The Global Devops Pipeline Manager is responsible for designing, developing, installing, maintaining and supporting JEMS—an enterprise solution for Jhpiego -- with the Engineering team. They will collaborate on task assignments with the engineering team; and manage the junior engineers.  This position is specifically designed to interface with the Systems Analysts to translate business requirements into technical requirements and communicate those with the other engineers.  This position collaborates with the network team on performance improvements and with IT staff to prepare for deployments and support. This position leads and manages development activities, including planning, timelines, task assignments, quality assurance, and reporting. They may also conduct presentations and attend meetings with Jhpiego management.

Responsibilities

• Interfacing with systems analyst to oversee the planning of development projects.
• Ensuring that the engineering team is respresented in the planning and implementation of projects
• Design new and modify current JEMS modules; analyze requirements; construct workflow charts and diagrams; study system capabilities and write specifications, per Jhpiego requirements.
  • Provide technical support as may be required by the helpdesk team.
  • Setup of new JEMS server environments.
  • Conduct data migration from old to new systems, data cleaning, and reporting.
  • Conduct continuous development based on system analysis and specifications to keep JEMS and other systems performing optimally and current with changing requirements and technologies
• Interfacing JEMS with other Jhpiego systems
• Determining and assessing new or existing applications from the various countries and integrating them with JEMS or other systems within the Jhpiego solutions estate.
• Assess and advice on new system needs for any of the Jhpiego countries both independent of and complimenting JEMS global.
• Advice on new infrastructural needs to go with the new systems of to improve the current ones.
• Overseeing the deployment pipeline and ensuring best practices are followed.
• Maintaining a schedule of deployments and ensuring that each deployment is thoroughly tested and merged with the main deployment branch in a timely fashion ahead of the scheduled deployment.
• Manage junior developer(s) and ensure that their work meets the standards set for the system and that they are delivering projects on ttime.
   

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree
• 7-9 years’ experience in similar capacity
• Expert knowledge of:
  • Software development tools, design methods and techniques
  • Client/server application programming
  • Development of web-based applications in ASP.Net, PHP and Javascript
  • Data structures
  • Maintaining and debugging live software systems
  • Writing software documentation
  • System security
  • Microsft Azure
• Ability to solve problems quickly and completely
• Ability to learn new programming languages quickly
• Experience and ability to teach or instruct co-workers
• Be self-motivated, proactive and have a positive attitude to work requiring minimum supervision.
• Excellent organizational skills including the ability to handle a variety of assignments sometimes under pressure of deadlines.
• Be cooperative, hardworking, flexible & dependable.
• Ability to communicate effectively, instilling trust and confidence.
• Pleasant, warm and outgoing personality.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Be of high integrity and have a sense of confidentiality
• Be willing to take on extra responsibilities in order to achieve the goals/objectives set by the organization