Database Administrator at One Acre Fund

One Acre, founded in 2006, supplies smallholder farmers with the agricultural services they need to make their farms more productive. We provide quality farm supplies on credit, delivered within walking distance of farmers’ homes, and agricultural trainings to improve harvests. We measure our success by our ability to make farmers more prosperous: On average, farmers harvest 50 percent more food after working with One Acre Fund. We serve more than 800,000 farm families in Eastern and Southern Africa, with more than 7,500 full-time staff, and we aim to serve 1 million farm families by 2020.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Database Administrator

Location: Kigali, Rwanda
Duration: Full Time

Job Description

• Our passionate development team manages a range of web and mobile solutions to support our field operations, from registering millions of farmers and their orders, optimizing delivery truckloads and routes, tracking deliveries, collecting mobile payments, to analyzing loan repayments, and so on.
• Our technologies include C#, NodeJS, CouchBase, React, Docker, Power BI, Elasticsearch and MS SQL, and our tooling landscape includes GitHub, JIRA, and Azure DevOps.

Specific Responsibilities
Specific responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Operate and manage our internal databases, holding millions of farmer records and processing tens of thousands of mobile money transactions a day, and support heavy BI analysis jobs.
• Work in a highly distributed environment with numerous replication systems including with offline or low-connectivity systems.
• Manage and automate our database deployments.
• Support developers to analyze, troubleshoot, tune their database usage.
• You’ll report to our Senior DBA.

Career Growth and Development:

• We have a strong culture of constant learning and we invest in developing our people
• YouТll have weekly check-ins with your manager, access to mentorship and training programs, and regular feedback on your performance
• We hold career reviews every six months, and set aside time to discuss your aspirations and career goals
• YouТll have the opportunity to shape a growing organization and build a rewarding long-term career.

Qualifications
Specific qualifications include, but are not limited to:

• 3+ years of experience in IT
• DBA experience in MS SQL Server is required
• Experience with SQL Server Merge Replication is a major plus
• Scripting skills required in one major language (Powershell, bash, Python)
• Experience with one No-SQL database (MongoDB, CouchBase) is a plus
• BI skills (Hadoop, Spark, Power BI) are a plus
• Awareness of database DevOps tools (RedGate, DBUp, Flyway) is appreciated
• Curious mind and a willingness to help feed the world
• Willingness to commit to the position for at least two years
• Language: English.

Preferred Start Date

• Due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, start dates can vary significantly by role. We are adapting rapidly to Covid-19 and most of our team is now working remotely. Given the changing environment, we will appreciate your flexibility in confirming a start date.

Sponsor International Candidates:

• Yes, Rwandans are strongly encouraged to apply.

Compensation

• Commensurate with experience.

Benefits:

• Health insurance, paid time off.

Application Closing Date
28th June, 2020.