We are looking for DevOps engineers who take ownership of the management of large-scale infrastructure while improving reliability and automation. DevOps Engineers actively manage the infrastructure software, maintain it & scale it and at the same time passionate about exploring new technologies!
What will you be doing?
● Demonstrable skills and experience in managing, troubleshooting, and tuning Linux
systems
● Demonstrable experience of working in a high volume, large deployment, and multi-
region environment
● Experience with industry-standard foundation technologies such as TCP/IP, HTTP,
HTTPS, DNS, and SMTP
● Experience with public cloud providers such as AWS (preferred) and GCP
● Excellent verbal and written communication skills
● Experience with monitoring and alerting systems
● Experience with Content Distribution Networks such as Akamai and CloudFront
Requirements
Who are we looking for?
● 5+ years experience in supporting hosted services in a high-volume customer-
facing environment
● Experience with DevOps tools, processes, culture, distributed systems and
supporting mission-critical systems
● Experience working on Continuous Integration and Delivery pipelines using tools
such as Jenkins and GitLab
● Strong knowledge of infrastructure provisioning tools such as Terraform, Ansible
and CloudFormation
● Ability to work effectively across multiple business and technical teams
● Strong sense of ownership, customer service, and integrity demonstrated through
clear communication
● Demonstrated ability to write programs and utilities using a high-level programming
languages like Go, Ruby, or Python
● Proven experience in running and managing infrastructure at scale using container
orchestration tool AWS EKS
It is a full-time job and the location is in Cairo, Egypt. The deadline is on the 28th of January, 2022.
If interested kindly apply here.
OLX Group Job Opening; DevOps Engineer
An Information Technology Company Job Opening: UI//UX Designer
About Company
An Information Technology company.
Job Description
Our client is looking to hire a very experienced intermediate UI/UX Designer.
Responsibilities
- plan and implement new designs
- Optimize existing user interface designs
- Test for intuition and experience
- Communicate with clients to understand their business goals and objectives
- Develop technical and business requirements and always strive to deliver intuitive and user-centered solutions
- Combine creativity with an awareness of the design elements
Create prototypes for new product ideas - Test new ideas before implementing
- Conduct an ongoing user research
Requirements
- 3-4 years of experience as a UI-UX Designer or similar role
UI design portfolio - Bachelor’s degree in relevant field
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
Ability to discuss and explain design options - Detail-oriented
- Critical thinker
- Problem solver and customer-centered
- Knowledge of Figma and Adobe range of products including Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat, and Dreamweaver.
- Should ideally be very good at graphics designing.
The job location is Lagos, Nigeria, and onsite. It is a three-month contract and working hours are full-time. The salary range is between N415,000-N440,000.
A Insurance Company Job Opening: Full Stack Developer
About Company
A one-stop, non-banking financial services platform for your health, life, motor, travel, health insurance, investment, and pensions needs.
Job Description
We are looking to hire an experienced full-stack developer with high-level proficiency in both backend and frontend development.
Responsibilities
- Work with development teams and product managers to ideate software solutions
- Design client-side and server-side architecture
- Build the front-end of applications through appealing visual design
- Develop and manage well-functioning databases and applications
- Write effective APIs
- Test software to ensure responsiveness and efficiency
- Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade software
- Create security and data protection settings
- Build features and applications with a mobile responsive design
- Write technical documentation
Work with data scientists and analysts to improve software
Requirements
- Proven experience as a Full Stack Developer or similar role
- Experience developing desktop and mobile applications
- Familiarity with common stacks
- Knowledge of multiple front-end languages and libraries (e.g. HTML/ CSS, JavaScript, XML, jQuery)
- Knowledge of multiple back-end languages (e.g. C#, .NET Core) and JavaScript frameworks (e.g. Angular, React, Node.js)
- Familiarity with databases (e.g. MySQL, MongoDB), web servers (e.g. Apache), and UI/UX design
- Excellent communication and teamwork skills
- Great attention to detail
- Organizational skills
- An analytical mind
- Degree in Computer Science, Statistics or relevant field
The job is a six months contract and the location is onsite, Lagos, Nigeria. It is a full-time job, and the salary is competitive.
Click here to apply.
Software Engineering: Graduate Opportunities, Kenya
Software Engineering graduate opportunity is now opened at Microsoft, Kenya. Interested? Then you should take advantage of this opportunity.
Every year, Microsoft welcomes thousands of university graduates and students from all over the world. You contribute your ambitions, talent, and potential, as well as your enthusiasm for the trip ahead.
We’re a company of learn-it-all rather than know-it-all, with a culture that promotes a growth mentality, a theme of inspiring greatness, and encourage teams and leaders to give it their all every day.
Role: Individual Contributor
Location: Kenya, Nairobi
Start Date: Autumn 2022
Duration: Full-Time Graduate Role
Responsibilities
- Uses sound and innovative engineering techniques to address complicated challenges.
- Quickly picks up new engineering techniques and applies them to his or her work.
- To improve his or her technical solutions, he or she solicits feedback and adopts internal or industry best practices.
- Demonstrates time management and software project completion skills in a collaborative team environment.
Qualifications
- A bachelor’s or master’s degree in engineering, computer science, or a similar discipline is being pursued or recently completed.
- A year or two of object-oriented programming experience (C, C#, C++, Java, Python) is required.
- Demonstrate a working knowledge of computer science concepts, such as data structures and algorithms.
Criteria
• Only individuals studying at universities in Kenya will be considered, with a focus on those planning to conclude studying (having final graduation) in 2022.
- Healthcare
- Investments and savings
- Educational resources
- Maternity and paternity leave
- Networking opportunities
- Product and service discounts
- Ample vacation time
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Metaverse 101 – Johannesburg
The Blockchain Smart Solutions is bringing a 2-hours webinar on the recent hype in the cryptocurrency space – Metaverse 101.
This workshop is an opportunity to learn and acquaint with the concept of Metaverse in the decentralized world. Participants will get to know the reasons behind the hype and how it can potentially shape the future.
Details of Event
Date: The date for the event varies. The event is going to hold twice in each month of 2022, participants can select a convenient date while registering.
Location: Johannesburg Marriott Hotel Melrose Arch 42 The High Street Johannesburg, GP 2076, South Africa.
Ticket fee: $399- $599
It is an online event and the zoom link will be shared after you register for the event.
What you are going to learn
- Understanding the basics of Metaverse in centralized and decentralized space.
- Getting to know Use Cases applied to different industries.
- Exploration of a few real-world projects.
- Steps on identifying your next investment opportunities.
Metaverse 101 Agenda
- The What, When, and How of Metaverse
- Metaverse in decentralized and centralized environments
- Crypto coins/tokens and Metaverse – is it a match made in heaven?
- Required Use cases such as Gaming, VR (Virtual Reality), AR (Augmented Reality)
- What is next in Metaverse space?
- Handy tips to help in identifying your next investment opportunities
- Questions and answers
Prerequisite: No prior knowledge of metaverse or blockchain is necessary.
Expected Participants: Anyone who has an interest in cryptocurrencies or appreciates technology evolution.
At the end of the course, you will have:
- Sound knowledge of various aspects of this growing technology.
- The ability to make informed decisions regards choosing your next investment opportunities.
- Certificate of attainment.
Kindly Note:
Any suggestion or advice shared at the workshop is not financial advice, in other words, you have to consider your circumstances before making an investment. As we know, trading digital currencies is a high-risk investment, and due consideration is required before making any investment decision.
To register, click here
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Making More Health Accelerator 2022
The Making More Health (MMH) Accelerator programme is an eleven-month structured programme designed to support social enterprise. Cohorts of social entrepreneurs in the healthcare industry are recognised and offered capacity building with technical as well as financial support. MMH Accelerator is organized by Ashoka and Boehringer Ingelheim; and is in its fourth year. Participants will test and pilot new business ideas or models and will pitch for scale-up.
MMH Accelerator focuses on the healthcare sector, rewarding healthcare providers and services as well as healthtech. The programme has adopted a “co-creation” approach which will connect employees of Boehringer Ingelheim and participants in order to promote continued collaboration on solutions for healthcare access.
How Does The Programme Work?
There are two phases:
1. The Pilot Phase: it runs for 12 months; it involves co-creation and pilot implementation of a high-impact project that will drive the growth and sustainability of participating enterprises. This phase comes with financial support of €50,000.
2. The Scale-up Phase: it runs for 12 months after the pilot phase. Enterprises that reach this phase will get additional financial support of €100,000 – €200,000. It involves hand-in-hand collaboration of the participating social entrepreneurs and Boehringer Ingelheim employees for scale-up projects.
Can I Apply?
You can apply if you have a proven social business that addresses obstacles to healthcare for humans and animals. Such obstacles could border on availability, affordability, access and awareness in healthcare.
Examples of solutions include: digital health solutions, micro-health insurance, last-mile vaccine delivery models, emergency transportation services, health data analytics, supply chain innovations, etc.
What Are The Eligibility Criteria?
- Legal Entity: Business or social enterprise
- Age: At least three years in operation
- Sector: Direct or indirect connection to human or animal health
- Country of Operation: Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda
- Revenue: At least $100k annual sales revenue
- Impact: Evidence of social impact
- Team: At least eight team members including founders
- Growth stage: Startups
When Is The Deadline?
January 31, 2022
To apply, go here.
Safaricom Expands Baze To Include Music Streaming
Safaricom PLC, regarded as the largest telecommunications company in Kenya, has announced its latest addition to it’s Baze platform. Baze now offers music streaming as part of its services. It primarily offered a wide range of entertaining videos at a subscription fee, only.
The streaming service provides a large collection of advertisement-free, “on-demand” music. Local and international music are both offered at affordable rates starting from KES 10 a day. Baze Music promises to support local Kenyan talent by featuring and promoting local music genres and artists. “Our goal is to provide Kenyans freedom, choice and control over the content they consume, and I am delighted that our customers have enjoyed a variety of content on Baze since the platform was launched in May 2021,” said Peter Ndegwa, Safaricom CEO.
Baze Music features three affordable subscription plans which are accessible through the online website or through dialing the subscription code *544*55#. A 7-day free trial plus 500mb daily is awarded to every new Baze Music customer. Customers will also be able to make their favorite songs their caller tune through the platform.
Safaricom’s launch of Baze Music is done as part fulfilment of the organization’s commitment to grow the creative and music industry in Kenya. The telecoms provider is said to have increased its Skiza revenue by 33% in August, 2021, thereby enabling about 20,000 artists and content creators to make increased earnings through the usage of their music on the platform.
Furthermore, Ndegwa added, “With such a unique digital platform, I call upon our artists to be part of this journey and utilize this opportunity to earn while showcasing and growing their musical talents.”
SystemSpecs Praises Fintech’s Financial Intermediary Role
SystemSpecs has prasied Nigerian fintechs for their efforts as financial transaction intermediaries employing cutting-edge technologies and consumer-oriented solutions.
Demola Igbalajobi, an Executive Director of SystemSpecs, stated the following remark during a recent Institute of Chattered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN), Information technology (IT) and consultancy webinar on Fintechs and Changes in Financial Intermediation.
A financial intermediary is a third party who acts as a go-between for two parties in a financial transaction.
They are designed to function as a link in complex financial transactions and charge a fee in exchange for taking on the risk.
Igbalajobi, who was represented by Mujib Ishola, SystemSpecs’ Head of Payments Technology and Infrastructure, noted that fintechs have emerged as a viable alternative to banks and other licensed money handlers in the financial intermediation process.
“Fintechs are gaining traction as a result of a variety of factors, including their agility and speed to market, lower risk aversion, a focus on service rather than regulation, and present inefficiencies in traditional bank operations,” he said.
He went on to say that the rapid growth of digital technology innovation has resulted in the rise of fintech platforms, which facilitate solutions in a variety of fields such as mobile money, insurtech, agrictech, cryptocurrency transactions, and many more.
“Fintech companies can be direct service providers to clients. He explained that they can “offer platforms as a service,” “create platforms for other financial companies,” or “act as a support platform for ancillary services such as data reference, data verification, and collection.”
Unlike traditional banks, which provide a variety of financial services from a single platform, fintechs are focusing on certain areas of customer demands, such as payment, lending, or verification.