Organizational Setting 

The key mission of the FAO Representation in Somalia, which is led by FAO Representative (FAOR), is to assist and support the national government to develop policies, strategies and programme aimed at accelerating the Implementation and achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in FAO’s global mandate and Strategic Objectives. More specifically, FAO’s response aims to address national needs and priorities in achieving food security, reducing hunger and malnutrition, developing agricultural, fishery and forestry sectors, and ensuring the sustainable use of environmental and natural resources and respond to recurrent emergencies. The current portfolio of activities of the FAO Representation in Somalia includes a wide scope of technical support interventions ranging from policy support through livestock and crop production, to natural resource management, Nutrition, value chain, food security analysis and water and land information management. FAO is also implementing several emergency, resilience-building, and development interventions, with the support of its five field offices and close to 400 staff in partnership with the Federal and State line ministries.

 
Reporting Lines 

Under the overall supervision of the FAO Representative in Somalia and the direct supervision of the Head of Information and system Management Unit.

Technical Focus 

The incumbent will be responsible for continuing the design and development of various server automation tasks relating to IM servers and systems, more particularly around FMT system. The DevOps engineer will ensure backups are regularly taken and periodically restoration of backups tested.

Tasks and responsibilities 

•    Perform configuration of FAO Somalia servers in consultation with various stakeholders and units.
•    Setup, monitor, support, integrate, and automate security and quality scans for infrastructure and service deployments.
•    Document the existing CI/CD methodology used by IM team.
•    Develop a plan to improve the CI/CD methodology used by IM team in consultation with various stakeholders.
•    Implement the planned improvement to CI/CD methodology.
•    Implement the planned improvement to individual server and server groups configurations.
•    Facilitate migration of servers and applications from Digital Ocean to AWS.
•    Development and maintenance of deployment Pipelines.
•    Configure and manage data sources e.g., RDBs and NoSQL and Implement solutions to improve observability and monitoring for tools/platforms and services.
•    Build/integrate with tools to reduce occurrences of errors and improve deployment cycle, deploy updates and fixes, and implement integrations requested by server and client teams.
•    Investigate and resolve technical issues affecting servers and application hosting.
•    Implement SSL certificates for FAOSO applications, ensure timely and successful renewal of the certificates.
•    Design procedures for system troubleshooting and maintenance.
•    Monitor and ensure prompt renewal or payment for subscriptions to server resources, for example cloud servers, applications and server components.
•    Perform any other duties as required.

CANDIDATES WILL BE ASSESSED AGAINST THE FOLLOWING 
 
 
Minimum Requirements  

•    University degree in software engineering, computer science, information technology or any other relevant field from a reputable institution.
•    At least four years of experience in building, designing and managing scalable applications, with a strong foundation in application development.
•    Working Knowledge (Level C) Of English.
•    National of Somalia.

FAO Core Competencies 

•    Results Focus
•    Teamwork
•    Communication
•    Building Effective Relationships
•    Knowledge Sharing and Continuous Improvement

Technical/Functional Skills  

•    Proven experience in DevOps or related roles.
•    Strong proficiency in scripting languages (Python, Bash, PowerShell).
•    Experience with configuration management tools (Ansible, Puppet, Chef).
•    Experience with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
•    Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), experience in AWS is an added advantage.
•    Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, CircleCI).
•    Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
•    Previous experience with software development, deployment and support
•    Strong teamwork and interpersonal skills.
•    Experience providing online support in areas where connectivity is limited.
•    Experience in training end users in the use of software.
•    Professional work experience in mobile VAS integrations and application development is an advantage.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION