Job at eHealth Africa for a Senior Manager, IT Engineering and Operations (ITEO)

eHealth Africa designs and implements data-driven solutions and technologies to improve health systems for and with local communities. eHA’s technology works in low connectivity settings, and smartly uses data to drive decision-making by local governments and partner agencies to get optimum results. We partner with governments, communities, non-profits and other stakeholders to generate holistic solutions, because we believe that every community deserves access to the types of tools that can enable them to lead healthier lives. We are recruiting to fill the position below:   Job Title: Senior Manager, IT Engineering and Operations (ITEO) Location: Kano Job Description

• The Senior Manager, ITEO role is to ensure that the operation of the ICT and DevOps departments are effective in supporting the business objectives of the organization.
• Reporting to the Director of Global Health Informatics (GHI), this manager designs, staffs and directly supervises the day-to-day activities of the two departments.
• (S)he collaborates with eHA department heads to identify and document human resource requirements and to build cohesive and responsive teams.
• This manager is responsible for defining and implementing IT policies, procedures and best practices and for achieving certifications that further the organization’s goals.

• To perform this job successfully, (S)he  will perform the following responsibilities:
• Collaborates with stakeholders to identify and implement ICT & DevOps goals
• Identifies, communicates and mitigates IT-related risks
• Establishes and manages procurement processes and vendor relationships
• Manages ICT and DevOps staffing, including recruitment, supervision, scheduling, development, evaluation and disciplinary actions
• Supports and implements strategic initiatives (e.g. ISO 27001)

• Ensures the availability, security and performance of the ICT infrastructure at all eHA offices
• Networks, gateways & wireless access points
• Servers & printers
• Desktops & mobile devices (including phones)
• Operating systems and end-user application software
• Line-of-business applications (e.g. BambooHR, Sage X3, etc.):
  • Develops, tests and maintains a disaster recovery plan for all eHA offices
  • Develops, tests and maintains a patch management plan for all hardware and software
  • Establishes cost-effective ICT network, hardware and software product standards
  • Sets and communicates ICT policies and works with HR to ensure employee compliance
  • Manages an internal help desk in support of eHA employees and consultants
  • Implements a rotating coverage pool for incident response and off-hours support
  • Coordinates new employee orientation & refresher training (e.g. for security)
  • Establishes and maintains the ICT asset tracking system (including warranties)
  • Supports periodic ICT audits

• Ensures the availability, security and performance of the DevOps-managed infrastructure:
• Compute & storage (AWS and OpenStack)
• Authentication/authorization services & password repositories
• Software development-related applications (eg. JIRA, Confluence, Travis, GitHub, etc.):
  • Works with GHI’s principal architect and technical leads to design and implement a hardware / software reference architecture for field deployments
  • Coordinates sprint planning and execution in support of eHA programs
  • Defines processes for continuous integration testing and automated deployments
  • Manages an external help desk in support of eHA program customers and partners
  • Implements a rotating coverage pool for incident response and off-hours support
  • Establishes cost-effective DevOps product standards in collaboration with stakeholders
  • Develops and implements administrative procedures and technical solutions for safeguarding data sets with personally-identifiable / protected health information
  • Establishes and enforces policies for eHA’s public open source repositories

• A Master's Degree in Business, Information Systems or Computer Science plus ten (10) years of experience of which five (5) years have been in progressively responsible IT management positions, or:
• A Bachelor's Degree in Business, Information Systems or Computer Science plus fifteen (15) years of experience of which 8 (eight) years have been in progressively responsible IT management positions
• Solid grasp of ICT and DevOps concepts (including scrum) and functional areas (e.g. help desk, asset management, security and network/server operations)
• Demonstrated ability to lead, manage and mentor teams of up to fifteen (15) people
• Demonstrated project management experience including estimation, costing and reporting (PMI certification a plus).

• English and French are the spoken and written language.

• The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate but can become louder at times due to group discussions or activities. eHealth Africa is a tobacco-free environment.

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
• Performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear.
• The employee is occasionally required to stand and walk.
• The employee is frequently required to sit and use a computer and/or reach with hands and arms.