Decagon is recruiting to fill the following positions:

1.) Site Reliability Engineer
2.) DevOps Engineer

Decagon is Nigeria’s leading tech talent accelerator connecting the top 0.5% of software Engineers with global companies looking to scale their engineering teams.

Driven by a passion to make Nigeria a Top 10 software Engineering nation within a decade, we recruit and place only the brightest of software engineers.

Founded in 2018 with a global network of 400+ software Engineers and 120+ partner companies spread across Europe, the USA, and Africa, Decagon is committed to connecting exceptional software Engineers to global companies across our network.

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1.) Site Reliability Engineer

The Role

• Develop, deploy, and operate cloud-native infrastructure in support of SaaS platform
• Develop and improve instrumentation for understanding and troubleshooting the health and availability of services
• Bring a mindset of standards and best practices to help create observability solutions that the team would want to adopt
• Participate in an on-call rotation
• Drive a culture of automation, both within the team and throughout the organization, in order to scale efficiently and reliably
• Participate in technical discussions to aid system design, analysis, and troubleshooting
• Help engineering teams to develop, test, debug and release scalable, resilient and highly available cloud-native applications

Ideal Profile

• • 4+ years of experience with implementation, operations, and maintenance of cloud services
  • A drive to inspire adoption through enthusiasm
  • An understanding of the importance of a strong feedback loop with other teams and individuals across the organization
  • A deep understanding of cloud computing concepts and solutions, specifically with Google Cloud Platform

• A solid understanding of Identity and Access Management, as well as setting and auditing access policies
• Experience with cloud-native approaches to security concerns
• Hands-on experience with container and container orchestration technologies: Kubernetes, Docker, Podman, etc.
• Experience working with Infrastructure-as-Code tools
• Intimate understanding of one or more of these monitoring and observability tools: DataDog, Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger, Honeycomb
• Very strong problem solving & troubleshooting skills, including the ability to perform root cause analysis and preventative analysis

Nice To Have

• You have experience in building systems in a microservice environment, understanding the basic building blocks of resilient and scalable software
• Experience with web applications developed in Python or Ruby
• Knowledge of some or all of: web/network protocols, security, data persistence, and CI/CD pipelines
• An understanding of modern software development practices: TDD/BDD, hexagonal design, etc.
• An understanding of Linux primitives: process scheduling, signals, namespaces, authentication/authorization, etc.

What’s on Offer?

• Flexible working options
• Excellent career development opportunities
• Opportunity to make a positive impact

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2.) DevOps Engineer

The Role

• Work closely with the architect and developers to evaluate existing problems and arrive at process improvement solutions
• Identify bottlenecks in the coding development and implementation process
• Participate in the planning of the delivery time, the quality of the code and the improvement of the efficiency of the process
• Execute the plan by creating coding standards and automating processes for the organization
• Perform daily tasks such as setting up development and production environments, monitoring metrics and reporting incidents
• Develop and maintain knowledge of platform configuration management and troubleshooting
• Actively participate in the deployment of application devices in appropriate environments through compatible technologies and infrastructures
• Coordinate with developers and technical members of the organization to understand their main weaknesses in the coding and development process
• Working with the rest of the team to provide a coherent and holistic solution to the organization

Ideal Profile

• 3-4 years of excellent coding and scripting skills and experience in implementing large-scale cloud architectures using modern cloud-based container platforms is highly desirable
• Knowledge in the implementation of automatic infrastructure provisioning solutions is highly desirable (i.e. Puppet, Chef, Ansible)
• Linux OS, SQL, PL SQL, Scripting, Container knowledge
• Nice to have knowledge of cloud infrastructure and management tools for computing components, storage, networking, caching, etc.
• Network knowledge is nice to have
• Strong understanding of agile methodologies
• Experience as a DevOps or SRE Engineer in an agile multifunctional team is preferred
• Strong communication skills with ability to communicate complex technical concepts and align the organization in decisions
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to quickly process complex information and present it clearly and simply
• Use team collaboration to efficiently create innovative solutions
• Passionate about technology and excited about the impact of emerging/disruptive technologies
• You want to give free rein to the internal self-entrepreneur and work in an environment that encourages entrepreneurial minds
• Believes in the culture of transparency and trust
• Open to learning new ideas

What’s on Offer?

• Work within a company with a solid track record of success
• Join a well known brand within Retail Banking
• Excellent career development opportunities

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Abt Associates is recruiting to fill the following positions:

1.) Project Assistant / Entomology Database Manager – VectorLink
2.) Project Assistant / IRS Database Manager – VectorLink

The International Development Division focuses on improving the lives and economic well-being of people in lower and middle-income countries. We command technical expertise in health, agriculture, climate change, food security and governance—as well as in international evaluation. Our multi-layered health portfolio includes policy, health promotion and disease prevention, health finance, and health systems management. In partnership with government clients and local experts, our high-quality programs in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East are known for impact and innovation.

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1.) Project Assistant / Entomology Database Manager – VectorLink

Project Description

Abt Associates, a major American business and government research, technical assistance, and consulting company, manages the USAID-funded Vector Control Task Order 1. Task Order 1 will support the U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) and USAID to plan and implement an integrated vector control approach with the overall goal of reducing the burden of malaria. Abt has implemented indoor residual spraying (IRS) for PMI since 2011, delivering high-quality IRS programs and gathering the most comprehensive vector control entomological data in the world. Under this contract, Abt will expand entomological monitoring to guide programs focused on insecticide-treated mosquito nets and IRS and continue to assist PMI in reducing the burden of malaria through IRS and capacity building in 24 African countries where malaria is endemic. Abt also will continue to support PMI in IRS monitoring and evaluation, entomological surveillance, as well as environmental compliance.

Job Summary

Under supervision of the Lead Entomologist, the Entomology Database Manager is expected to support the PMI VectorLink Sierra Leone Project’s entomological data collection, entry, and management.

Key Roles and Responsibilities

• Enter all entomological data collected on paper based data collection forms into the PMI VectorLink Sierra Leone Project’s DHIS 2-based VectorLink Collect database
• Support proper and timely data recording and entry as well as provide feedback on data collections errors
• Perform regular data cleaning to ensure high quality data to inform vector control decision making
• Ensure the tracking of entomological samples sent to the laboratory for molecular analysis
• Ensure the integration of laboratory results into the DHIS 2-based VectorLink Collect database
• Assist the lead entomologist in the development of analytics and visualizations for reports and presentations
• Assist in the migration of data from existing legacy databases (excel and access based) to the DHIS 2-based VectorLink Collect database
• File all entomological data collected according to project filing protocols
• Support the implementation of entomological field activities
• Performe other project related duties assigned to him by his supervisor

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree  in Entomology, Biology, Biological Sciences, Biostatistics or other health related field
• Previous experience in data collection, entry, and management is an advantage
• Previous experience with DHIS 2 is preferred
• Good interpersonal, communication and analytical skills
• Proficiency in English
• Previous experience in IRS activities or vector control activities or general experience as field biologist working with research projects in health or natural resource disciplines is an added advantage

Minimum Qualifications

• ( 4+ ) years of experience OR the equivalent combination of education and experience.

Abt Associates is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer committed to fostering a diverse workforce.  Abt Associates provides market-competitive salaries and comprehensive employee benefits.

How to Apply

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2.) Project Assistant / IRS Database Manager – VectorLink

Project Description

Abt Associates, a major American business and government research, technical assistance, and consulting company, manages the USAID-funded Vector Control Task Order 1. Task Order 1 will support the U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) and USAID to plan and implement an integrated vector control approach with the overall goal of reducing the burden of malaria. Abt has implemented indoor residual spraying (IRS) for PMI since 2011, delivering high-quality IRS programs and gathering the most comprehensive vector control entomological data in the world. Under this contract, Abt will expand entomological monitoring to guide programs focused on insecticide-treated mosquito nets and IRS and continue to assist PMI in reducing the burden of malaria through IRS and capacity building in 24 African countries as well as Cambodia and Colombia where malaria is endemic. Abt also will continue to support PMI in IRS monitoring and evaluation, as well as environmental compliance.

Job Summary

Under the supervision of the Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) Manager, the Project Assistant / Database Manager supports the implementation of the M&E system of the VectorLink Project.

Key Roles and Responsibilities

• Participate in the collection, analysis, and reporting of baseline M&E data and ongoing M&E data collection, analysis and reporting according to the project M&E plan.
• Assist in the regular monitoring of project implementation against established targets and objectives. .

• Design, review and test M&E tools for reporting formats and data collection. These can include mobile-based tools, digitally-enumerated satellite images or atlases, and other innovations to data collection, data quality, data entry, and data reporting.
• Update and maintain the project database system, which is built on a DHIS2 platform.
• Ensure appropriate skills are developed and maintained with the national and district IRS staff through focused trainings for continued maintenance of the established M&E tracking systems. This includes training temporary field vector control (VC) staff on appropriate methods of data collection, entry, reporting, and quality.
• Assist with periodic internal Data Quality Assessments (DQAs) and prepare the project for possible external DQAs to ensure validity, integrity, precision, reliability and timeliness of all performance data, identifying gaps and suggesting corrective actions on time.
• The position requires frequent travel to VC implementing districts and field sites for routine monitoring, program supervision, and support and frequent communication with site and home office staff to report on VC campaign progress.

Preferred Qualifications

• Secondary School (minimum), or a Bachelors Degree (desirable) in Statistics, Community Health, Sociology, or other relevant field.
• 4 years of relevant experience in database management, monitoring & evaluation, or other relevant social science activities.
• Experience in MS Access, GIS applications, GPS measurement data collection, the DHIS2 platform, and/or Tableau desirable.
• Experience with mobile platforms (ODK, CommCare, KoboCollect, EpiInfo, Fulcrum, etc.), mobile data collection, and/or GIS satellite imagery are highly desirable.
• Experience and familiarity with PMI program monitoring and evaluation, and performance monitoring.
• Strong analytic and quantitative database management skills, budgeting and report writing.
• English language fluency.

Minimum Qualifications

• ( 4+ ) years of experience OR the equivalent combination of education and experience.

Abt Associates is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer committed to fostering a diverse workforce.  Abt Associates provides market-competitive salaries and comprehensive employee benefits.

How to Apply

Qualified and interested individuals should click on the button below to apply.