The National Election Board of Ethiopia (NEBE), re-established by proclamation No. 1133/2011, is the constitutionally mandated body to conduct elections, organize referendum and regulate political parties in Ethiopia. NEBE is working to boost its’ institutional strength with a special focus on the enhancement of human resource capacity. Accordingly, NEBE would like to invite applicants for DevOps Engineer Position who meet the following requirements. 

Required number:         One

Reports to:                     ICT Project Manager        

Duty station:                  NEBE Headquarters, Addis Ababa

Duration:                        One year with the possibility of Extension

Salary:                             As per the organization's salary scale (Competitive)

We are looking for a DevOps Engineer to automate, secure, and scale our infrastructure using cloud-native technologies. You’ll bridge development and operations by implementing CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and monitoring solutions to ensure high availability, performance, and security.

Duties and Responsibilities

1. CI/CD & Automation

   • Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, ArgoCD).

   • Manage artifact repositories (Nexus, Artifactory) and container registries (Docker Hub, ECR, GCR).

2. Cloud & Infrastructure Management

Deploy and optimize cloud infrastructure (Teleserver, AWS/GCP/Azure) with services like:

• Compute: ECS, EKS/GKE/AKS, EC2, Lambda, Fargate

  • Networking: VPC, ALB/NLB, Cloudflare

  • Storage: S3, EBS, RDS, DynamoDB

Implement serverless architectures and edge computing (Cloudflare Workers, AWS Lambda@Edge).

Containerization & Orchestration

• Build and manage Docker containers and Kubernetes clusters (EKS, GKE, or self-managed).

• Optimize clusters with Helm charts, Kustomize, and Operators.

• Troubleshoot K8s networking (CNI), storage (CSI), and security (RBAC, OPA).

Monitoring, Logging & Observability

• Set up monitoring/alerting (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, New Relic).

• Centralize logs using ELK Stack, Loki, or OpenSearch.

• Implement distributed tracing (Jaeger, OpenTelemetry).

Security & Compliance

• Enforce security best practices (IAM, Secrets Management, KMS, CIS Benchmarks).

• Automate vulnerability scanning (Trivy, Clair) and patch management.

• Ensure compliance with SOC2, GDPR, HIPAA.

Performance Optimization

• Conduct load testing (Locust, k6) and cost optimization (AWS Cost Explorer, Spot Instances).

• Tune database performance (PostgreSQL, Redis, Cassandra).

Job Requirements

Education and Experience

BSc. CS, CE, SE and related fields with min 3 yrs of experience

Technical Skills

• Cloud Platforms: AWS/GCP/Azure (certifications preferred).

  • Containers & K8s: Docker, Nomad, Kubernetes (CKA/CKAD a plus).

  • CI/CD Tools: GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Jenkins.

  • Scripting: Bash, Python, or Go.

  • Monitoring: Prometheus, Grafana, Kibana, ELK.

Soft Skills

• Strong problem-solving and collaboration with Dev/QA teams.

  • Ability to document processes and mentor junior engineers.

Bonus Skills:

• GitOps (FluxCD, ArgoCD).

  • Service Mesh (Istio, Linkerd).

  • Multi-cloud/Edge deployments.

How To Apply

     INTERESTED APPLICANTS ARE INVITED TO SEND NON-RETURNABLE:

• Application letter that explains why you fit the post, an updated CV, and three work-related referees;

• Application letter & resume should be saved by the full name of the applicant.

• Only short-listed candidates will be contacted for further screening.

• Those who are interested can only apply through THIS LINK

Female candidates are encouraged to apply!