Job Title: Integration & DevOps Engineer
Organisation: Palladium
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
About Organisation:
Palladium is a global leader in the design, development and delivery of Positive Impact – the intentional creation of enduring social and economic value. We work with foundations, investors, governments, corporations, communities and civil society to formulate strategies and implement solutions that generate lasting social, environmental and financial benefits.
Job Summary: The Integration & DevOps Engineer designs, builds, tests, deploys, and supports secure and maintainable integrations among priority MOH digital health systems. The position supports MOH-controlled development, staging, and production environments; CI/CD pipelines; standards-based data exchange; system monitoring; and operational handover to DHI and local technical teams.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Build and maintain integration pipelines, adapters, APIs, and workflow automations for approved priority use cases
- Map, transform, validate, and exchange data using MOH-approved FHIR profiles, identifiers, terminology mappings, and security controls
- Configure and support interoperability components, including OpenHIM, OpenFn or approved equivalent tools, API gateways, CI/CD pipelines, and monitoring tools
- Support event-streaming workflows using Kafka where approved, including schema management, topic governance, secure access, consumer monitoring, retention, and recovery testing
- Establish and maintain MOH-controlled repositories, automated testing, deployment procedures, release controls, rollback plans, and runbooks
- Troubleshoot interface failures, message queues, API performance, data-validation errors, and integration incidents
- Participate in technical design reviews, code reviews, user acceptance testing, change advisory processes, and post-release stabilization
- Pair with MOH engineers and Ugandan partners to transfer practical integration and DevOps capability
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, information systems, or related discipline
- At least 4 years of experience in systems integration, backend development, DevOps, or health information systems
- Practical experience with REST APIs, JSON, XML, Git, CI/CD, Linux, Docker, automated testing, and monitoring
- Experience with HL7 FHIR, OpenHIM, OpenFn, Kafka, API management, and digital health systems is strongly preferred
- Strong troubleshooting, documentation, collaboration, and communication skills
- Professional fluency in English
How to Apply:
All suitably qualified and Interested applicants should apply online at the link below.
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Level of Education: bachelor degree
Work Hours: 8
Experience in Months: 48