DevOps Engineer
First seen by Alion on Nov 5, 2026.
About Us:
Blue Spark Business Technology Solution Plc, is a leading provider of comprehensive technology, telecom, and financial solutions in Ethiopia. With a focus on cutting-edge products and services, Blue Spark operates across various sectors, offering hardware distribution, telecom services distribution, networking solutions, financial products, and more. We are committed to innovation, customer satisfaction, and delivering world-class technology solutions in East Africa.
We offer complete systems integration in areas such as networking, remote communications, web application development, custom training and Internet solutions. We provide both products and service in this area, from pure consulting and design work, to complete installation and integration services. We also engaged in IT and Telecom product sales and distribution with more than 1,400 sales staff and 73 self-owned branch shops across the country.
Job Responsibilities:
Job Purpose/ Summary:
We are looking for a detail oriented and security minded DevOps engineer, with experience in production level deployment.
Job Duties and Responsibilities
- Communicate and work with developers to produce deployment-ready systems from the start.
- Keep good technical control of server and cloud environments.
- Set up and automate software integration and deployment.
- Configure and harden production systems against system-level vulnerabilities.
- Address both network-level and software-level setup.
- Define the release process.
- Manage secrets and access control.
- Apply pipeline hardening: CIS benchmarks, image scanning, and dependency scanning.
- Run database operations: backup, restore drills, and safe migrations.
- Build observability: metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and alerts.
- Coach developers and communicate well on incidents and blockers.
- Commit to continuous learning.
Requirements
Required Qualifications
Education
Minimum of a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a relevant field. Master's Degree preferred.
Experience
More than 4 years of work experience in development and production environments for enterprise applications.
Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities
- Proven skills in planning and task management.
- Deep Linux experience. Shell and one scripting language.
- Experience with CI/CD tools: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure Pipelines, or Jenkins.
- Experience with containers: Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm.
- Deep experience in at least one cloud, such as Azure.
- Experience with virtualization technologies and cloud environments, such as Azure and Amazon AWS.
- Experience with SQL and NoSQL database configuration and deployment.
- Experience with observability tools, such as Loki and Grafana.
- Experience with secrets management and access control.
- Experience with infrastructure as code: Terraform, Bicep, or Pulumi is a plus.
- Ability to work independently and within a team.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
How to apply
Interested applicants are invited to appear in person or send their application, CV and non
Returnable copies of their credentials to the following address within 15 days from the date of Announcement at Blue Spark Business Technology Plc head office which is located on Addis Ababa, Gerji Imperial Alfoz Plaza 4th Floor. or via E-mail: - [email protected]