Summary
Date Posted: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Biovision Africa Trust (BvAT) is a not-for-profit organization established in Kenya in 2009 by the Biovision Foundation for ecological development in Switzerland and supported by the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE) in Nairobi. The Trust’s goal is to alleviate poverty and improve the livelihoods of smallholder farmers in Kenya and other African countries through supporting dissemination of information and knowledge on appropriate technology to improve human, animal, plant, and environmental health. .

  Specific Tasks
Undertake a feasibility study to clarify possibilities and obstacles to Infonet IT developments and produce a comprehensive study report.
Conduct a feasibility study and come up with a comprehensive report with actionable recommendations on:
• The costs for updating the system (to Drupal 8).
• Possibilities and options for ensuring longevity of the platform.
• An assessment of obstacles to Infonet IT developments.
• An assessment of current environment and possibility of exchange with existing Apps in the sector.
• An assessment of costs for API and App development.
• An Infonet IT strategy informed by the study.
Help in the implementation of the recommendations from the feasibility study.
Provision of DevOps services that entail IT operations to support the deployment and running of the Infonet website.
• Regularly updating the Drupal 7 website to the latest minor or patch release versions.
• Monitor Drupal module version updates and apply them to the database system as well as the Drupal CMS.
• Applying security patches to all servers and their services that support the Infonet website.
• Perform regular backups of the Infonet website i.e. web files and database. The frequency should be on a weekly basis and can be increased on frequency of content change.
• Block any rogue Internet Protocol (IP) addresses from entities such as malicious bots that send email spam or cause a denial of service (DoS).

  Required Skills and Experience
• The task will be conducted by an IT company having the following main qualifications:
• Company/Team consisting of IT experts who have a university degree or deep background knowledge in Information Technology or a related field and have the following in their repertoire of technical skills for software development:
• Backend development: PHP, MySQL, Apache Solr
• DevOps (continuous integration & deployment, Linux server administration, knowledge on cloud services such as Rackspace and AWS, knowledge on site reliability engineering, performance monitoring)
• Software configuration management (version control using Git)
• Front-end development: HTML 5, CSS 3 and Javascript (ES6 / ECMAScript 2015 and above)
• Mobile application development: Android (Java or Kotlin)
• 5+ years’ experience in website development and maintenance.
• Experience in providing Service Level Agreements for Non-governmental Organizations.
• Experience with Drupal CMS.
• Experience in undertaking IT feasibility studies and developing IT strategy
• Good communication skills, both orally and in written.
• Experts to accompany local team in Nairobi to presentations and partner meetings
• Experience in managing large databases including image databases and database migrations.
• Experience in (Restful) API/Web services and mobile application development

Job Qualifications: Not Specified
Job Education Requirements: Not Specified
Job Experience Requirements: Not Specified

Work Hours: 8

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Job application procedure
Interested companies should submit the following:
• Detailed curriculum vitae of the IT expert(s) to be involved in the assignment, with relevant supporting documents (including detailed work experience, education/degrees, and details of similar assignments).
• Company portfolio, names and contacts of clients (phone numbers and email).
• A one-page write-up showing why your company is the most suitable for undertaking the consultancy and cost of consultancy.
• Estimated raw costs based on provided information above (detailed costs to be delivered in an RFP).
If you believe you are the right firm for the above consultancy and can clearly demonstrate your ability to meet the indicated qualifications, submit your application to info@biovisionafricatrust.org  with the subject heading: Consultancy for providing IT Services to the Infonet Database. Deadline for application is February 7, 2020; 5.00pm..

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