Job type: Job Type Full Time , Remote

  • GIS / Remote Sensing Interns

    GIS / Remote Sensing Interns

    Minimum Qualifications:

    Bachelor degree in Geo information/GIS / Remote sensing or any other related field with relevant academic experience

    Interested candidates are encouraged to apply via email with subject line ‘‘Application for RS/GIS-Intern – GMES & Africa.
    Deadline: 20th March 2023.
    Send the application to jobs@rcmrd.org

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    jobs@rcmrd.org

  • Senior Software Engineer – Backend 

Senior Site Reliability Engineer – Observability 

Tech Lead – Payment Methods

    Senior Software Engineer – Backend Senior Site Reliability Engineer – Observability Tech Lead – Payment Methods

    JOB DESCRIPTION:  
     
    We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our product teams in scaling our payments products in Africa.  As a Senior Software Engineer, you work in a team that owns the design, development, and operations for mission-critical applications of the payments business. You are responsible for developing frontend applications using best practices.
     
    CORE RESPONSIBILITIES:
     

    Delivering complete features and maintaining existing ones.
    Design and implement scalable distributed systems using Kubernetes, Docker, and other tools in the Cloud Native landscape.
    Build configuration and deployment assets required to deploy and run the distributed applications.
    Work with the frontend and API engineers to define RESTful API Specifications.
    Creating self-contained, reusable, and testable microservices and components.
    Participating in Sprint Planning and tracking work items
    Work well with technical and non-technical people to deliver high-value results
    Ensure that all written code and architecture is high quality, scalable, and performant
    Take initiative in refactoring and keep things simple
    Take full ownership of a feature set, from the first discussion to going live.
    Using test-driven development to write well-tested code.
    Fixing bugs fast and taking your time to solve hard problems well.
    Prototyping new ideas to help with initial feature definition.
    Participating in architecture and code reviews.

     

    QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE:
     
    Must have experience:
     

    5+ years of industry experience building and operating large-scale, highly available distributed systems.
    5y+ Experience with Java/C# on large-scale projects.
    Strong knowledge of building cloud-native applications using Java, Spring, and Spring boot.
    Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, operating systems, and distributed systems fundamentals.
    Confidence with the unit and automated functional testing in Spring boot.
    Experience building multi-tenant distributed SAAS applications is a strong plus.
    Experience with CI/CD.
    Experience with performance analysis and optimization in Java is a strong plus
    Proven software architecture experience.
    Ability to understand and break down large features into complete solutions.
    Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work well with all levels of engineers and other disciplines.

    Qualifications:

    Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Software Engineering, Computer Science or related field

    Personal attributes: 

    Proficient, autonomous, and rigorous behavior.

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  • Production Management Assistant

    Production Management Assistant

    Job Introduction
    The BBC Studios Events team is an award-winning production unit specialising in producing and broadcasting large scale national and international events which are rich in ambition, emotion and creativity.
    Responsible for producing some of the biggest moments in in British and world history, such as the Diamond Jubilee Concert, the Royal Wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, the Invictus Games, and the New Year’s Eve Fireworks, as well as a range of high-profile documentaries, they provide the opportunity to work on a vast range of content, in a variety of genres, in some of the most exciting locations in the UK and around the world.
    We currently have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Production Management Assistant to work across the live events and broadcasts for the Platinum Jubilee of Her Majesty The Queen, with start date of 9th May until  5th June . The successful candidates will provide production support on what will be one of the largest and most watched Events of the year
    The PMA is a key point of contact and provides administrative support to the production team(s) in order to ensure the smooth and efficient running of productions.
    This role would require being able to travel into the office as well as remote working.
    Role Responsibility
    You’ll work with your editorial colleagues to deliver outstanding, distinctive content by supporting in the delivery of editorial ambitions within operational and financial constraints. Contributing to a professional pan-BBC production management community, you’ll support the drive for continuous improvements of workflows and contribute to and support a creative and collaborative culture.
    The Ideal Candidate

    You will have worked as a Production Management Assistant or in a directly comparable administrative role within TV broadcast and will have an interest in BBC Studios 
    Minimum experience of two recent television broadcast credits is essential.
    You will have experience of providing administrative support in a busy production environment along with the ability to work in pressurised and challenging situations.
    You’ll be able to manage relationships effectively whilst working with a variety of people, including VIPS and work collaboratively within a diverse team.
    You will demonstrate strong organisational skills, and will be able to manage conflicting demands to meet deadlines.
    You will be a good communicator, hold good attention to detail when working at pace, have experience of BBC systems, and a real can-do attitude

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    careershub.bbc.co.uk

  • Program Associate- Africa

    Program Associate- Africa

    DAY-TO-DAY TASKS will include:

    Work with other HQ staff and field teams to edit quarterly and annual narrative project reports, as well as annual work plans;
    Assist the Africa team with proposal development (research, writing, proofreading);
    Provide project field staff with support such as research and correspondence;
    Compile monthly e-newsletter on Africa programs;
    Develop and maintain up-to-date briefing and communications materials for Africa programs;
    Coordinate and edit impact stories to be posted on the Internews global website;
    Assist Regional Program Managers with recruitments especially for field office recruitments (Shortlisting, organizing calls, reference checks, question grids);
    Coordinate and organize Africa PMUs online platform management (HIVE & EGNYTE);
    Support various monitoring, evaluation and learning activities, as needed, including data collection, reviewing quarterly data reporting, and liaising with country/project teams on specific project M&E tasks;
    Other duties as assigned;
    Understanding of and demonstrated commitment to upholding Internews’ Core Values.

    QUALIFICATIONS WE’RE LOOKING FOR:
    Required

    5 years professional experience in international affairs (or related field), media experience, including experience living, working, or studying in Africa;
    Competence in story telling ability;
    Native English, professional proficiency in written and spoken French preferred;
    Excellent oral communication and presentation skills;
    Experience with MS Excel, Word and Power Point;
    Proven organization skills, with attention to detail;
    Proven ability to multi-task and prioritize with a shifting workload;
    Proven ability to operate effectively in a multicultural environment;
    Relevant university degree.

    Preferred
    Note: Candidates who do not have these preferred qualifications, but are interested and willing to learn, are encouraged to apply.

    Experience with proposal writing for government donors;
    Experience with financial management and familiarity with USAID rules and regulations;
    Experience with Adobe Creative Suite and other desktop publishing software a plus;
    Experience with event planning and/or arranging logistics for project implementation abroad;
    Experience preparing expense reports and budgets.

    Apply via :

    phf.tbe.taleo.net

  • Senior Systems Reliability Engineer

    Senior Systems Reliability Engineer

    About The Role:
    Site Reliability Engineers build and operate the platform on which Sendy’s applications run.  SREs have built up their knowledge working in different environments and come from a variety of technical backgrounds. The common denominator across all our reliability engineers  include a passion for scalability, operational excellence and automation..
    The Senior SRE will lead and develop a team of SREs that are responsible for the Sendy’s production platform and build the tools for all teams to understand and interact with it.
    What you will do:

    Mentor, grow, and empower the team by giving them the skills, confidence and motivation to make decisions
    Participate in deep technical design discussions within the team, and across partner teams, and ensure that we’re building high quality systems
    Partner with other Engineering Leads across Sendy to achieve reliability outcomes for their services
    Building software to help engineering and support teams
    Fixing support escalation issues
    Optimizing on-call rotations and processes
    Documenting “tribal” knowledge
    Conducting post-incident reviews

    What you should have:

    Linux systems administration experience
    Five years Site Reliability Engineering experience
    Intermediate level software development skills in Python, Go or SQL
    Strong skills in network services, including DNS, TLS/SSL and HTTP
    Network fundamentals DHCP, ARP, subnetting, routing, firewalls
    Experience with the Linux kernel and Linux software packaging
    Performance analysis and debugging with tools like perf, sar, strace, dtrace
    Configuration management systems such as Saltstack, Chef, Puppet or Ansible
    Load balancing and reverse proxies such as Nginx, Varnish, HAProxy, Apache
    SQL databases (Postgres or MySQL)
    Time series databases (OpenTSDB, Graphite, Prometheus, Grafana)
    Key/Value stores (Redis, KyotoTycoon, Cassandra, LevelDB)
    Internetworking and BGP.
    Experience leading and hiring a team that builds and runs tools and platforms
    Ability to work effectively with distinct personalities and across all levels in an organization. 
    Must be a self-starter and highly organized.
    Ability to discern and apply knowledge 
    Top level interpersonal and cross-cultural skills 
    Ability to work well with people at all levels in the organization.

    Why you should  work at Sendy:

    We are building a world-class design organization and you’ll get to work with and learn from the team with a wealth of expertise and experience.
    You get a lot of autonomy and flexibility to build a style of working that is optimal for you.
    Other office perks

    Flexibility to work remotely.
    Data Allowance.
    Office lunch, also available to remotely.
    Comprehensive health insurance – Inpatient / Outpatient / Dental / Optical.
    Flexible vacation.
    All risk Insurance.
    Opportunity for company stock options.

    Apply via :

    www.sendyit.com

  • Marketing Manager (FinTech/Cryptocurrency) 

Marketing Operations Manager (Fintech/Cryptocurrency)

    Marketing Manager (FinTech/Cryptocurrency) Marketing Operations Manager (Fintech/Cryptocurrency)

    About the job

    Are you an experienced Marketing Manager with insight into the world of Fintech? Someone who understands crypto and the blockchain space? Then this is for you!
    Our client, an American-based company is expanding globally by being one of the first movers to bring cryptocurrency to Africa and the Middle East at large. The mission is to make bitcoin/blockchain and other FinTech services more accessible, and affordable, than ever before. This dynamic company is looking to hire a Marketing Manager to join their team.
    Our client’s vision strives to form a committed team of forward-thinkers who collectively create a supportive, welcoming and highly innovative environment for all. Whilst driving business through technology.
    Top candidates are clear communicators who are highly self-motivated, eager to collaborate, exchange knowledge, apply new skills and pitch in for whatever the team needs to ship new services.

    Requirements

    Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing or Business or similar
    5+ years of experience as a marketing manager
    Experience ideally within FinTech, Crypto, start-up environment
    Experience building complex marketing programs and reporting on the results
    Exposure to digital and direct response marketing
    Strong project management skills
    Strong problem-solving ability, including metrics-driven thinking

    Responsibilities

    Execute marketing plans, campaigns and strategies in line with the agreed budget
    Developing and implementing short and long-term marketing strategies and advertising campaigns in order to create and increase brand awareness
    Determining the feasibility and profitability of a new market or existing campaigns
    Fostering and executing marketing and advertising campaigns
    Managing on-going marketing and advertising campaigns and plans, while ensuring that every initiative is aimed at increasing brand awareness
    Implement online marketing strategies
    Giving ideas, recommendations, and plans to contribute to the optimisation of marketing strategies
    Developing and executing the content marketing strategy for the business
    Supporting the new business team in the identification and generation of leads
    Assisting the team in the target delimitation for products, brands, or services
    Keeping up to date with industry activities and trends
    Researching, analysing and summarising market trends
    Studying competitors’ market behaviour and strategies
    Overseeing marketing material
    Building strategic relationships and partner with key industry players, agencies and vendors

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  • Independent Delivery Agent

    Independent Delivery Agent

    About the job
    Job description summary
    Currently, we are searching for the goal-oriented people willing to become partners with us conducting deliveries. We will be glad to start working together in case you already have your own business. Also we are glad to welcome the starting businessmen with vast experience in logistics and delivery.
    Job description
    Key responsibilities:

    Deliver goods to the customers
    Communicate with customers and team members
    Keep stock
    Give necessary updates
    Send reports
    Conduct inventory
    Organize the delivery process

    Requirements:

    Relevant experience of 1 year and more
    Bachelor degree
    Driver license
    Personal vehicle/ motorcycle
    Personal computer
    Proficiency in Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel
    Ability to work independently or with minimum direction
    Excellent written and oral skills
    Negotiation and conflict solving skills

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    www.linkedin.com

  • Site Reliability Engineer 

Software QA Engineer 

Android Senior Software Engineer 

Data Engineer 

iOS Senior Software Engineer

    Site Reliability Engineer Software QA Engineer Android Senior Software Engineer Data Engineer iOS Senior Software Engineer

    What you will bring to the team

    Wizeline fully embraces DevOps as a culture and methodology to get things done. As a Site Reliability Engineer at Wizeline, you will enable the quick release of quality products, thus leading to faster innovation cycles for our clients and higher impact on the users.
    You will be responsible for the non-functional attributes of the applications, such as scalability, performance, quality, and architecture. You will improve collaboration and organizational performance, ensure world-class reliability and security of operations, all whilst achieving seamless software delivery in record time. You will work on projects that provide new opportunities for skill development and gain exposure to multinational brands.

    Your day-to-day

    Accountable for the health, changes, and lifecycle of the Cloud (or Application) Infrastructure.
    Identify, Solve and Prevent performance issues of many levels, IP Stack, Application or operating system.
    Help the team automate the application lifecycle, build, test, stage and deploy.
    Work with the engineering team and make architectural decisions.
    Encourage the use of best practices among the company.
    Write or Implement tools to improve the delivery of applications.
    Are you a fit?

    Must Have

    Excellent communication skills with internal and external stakeholders.
    Self-driven and proactive.
    Ability to work independently, as well as within a team.
    Ability to quickly learn new tools and adapt to new technologies.
    Experience in Development
    Experience implementing a CI/CD pipeline (build, test, and deploy).
    Experience with engineering and architecture in AWS, GCP or Azure.
    Cyber Security awareness.

    Nice To Have

    System Administration Experience.
    Experience Scaling applications & Capacity Management.
    Knowledge of Networking.
    Mentorship skills
    Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect or Associate Cloud Engineer certification

    Some of the stack you may use here at Wizeline:

    Tools: Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, CircleCI, Ansible, New Relic, DataDog.
    Languages: NodeJS, Python, Golang, Bash.
    Services: Redis, Github, Cloud Functions, Datastore, EKS, ECR, Vault, App Engine, Cloud Storage, Prometheus, Cloud Run, Cloud Build, Cloud DNS, API Gateway.
    Frameworks: Serverless, Terraform
    Other Clouds: AWS, Azure.

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