The Bulb is a platform for African creatives to turn tech ideas into business realities. We run accelerator programs, incubate entrepreneurs and provide training to help them launch, grow and sustain businesses.
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The DevOps Engineering track is one of the specialization options currently offered by The Bulb Africa Fellowship program. Fellows on this track acquire skills that facilitate communication between developers and IT operators, and ultimately help organizations and teams deliver software solutions faster in a stabilized operating environment.
Role & Responsibilities
The DevOps Trainer’s primary duty will be to guide and support the trainees as they acquire knowledge of DevOps concepts, processes and tools based on a hands-on approach. The successful candidate will also work closely with the Learning Lead to define learning outcomes as well as make key contributions to the program design.
Competencies Technical (mandatory)
At least 4 years hands-on experience providing DevOps support as well as employing agile development techniques in a production environment
Deep understanding of cloud computing concepts e.g., IaaS, PaaS, SaaS
Comfort with Linux Command Line/Terminal and Bash/Shell scripting
Good knowledge of, and hands-on experience with, at least one tool in each of these categories:
Continuous integration and deployment tools e.g., Jenkins, Circle CI, etc.
Cloud computing technologies and platforms e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP, Heroku, etc.
Containerization and orchestration technologies e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, etc. o Cloud configuration management tools e.g., Ansible, Chef, Salt, Puppet, etc.
Cloud infrastructure monitoring tools e.g., Nagios, Datadog, etc.
Cloud application monitoring tools e.g., New Relic, AppDynamics, etc.