Recruitment at NewGlobe

NewGlobe supports visionary governments to transform public education systems, the cornerstone of a prosperous, equitable, and peaceful society. With a comprehensive system transformation platform and data-driven educational services, NewGlobe delivers rapid and dramatic improvements in learning outcomes at state and nationwide scale. Through building impactful partnerships and programmes, NewGlobe ensures that all children have access to an education that will develop their full potential and create a foundation for growth and prosperity.

NewGlobe leverages more than a decade of educational experience and proven impact in integrated school management, teacher professional development, instructional design innovation, technological system support, child-centered classroom practice, and parent engagement –  all grounded in learning science – to ensure each teacher is empowered to engage children in transformational learning, and all children have the opportunity to develop to their full potential. Every day, NewGlobe supports governments to solve what were once seen as intractable problems, and by doing so, ensures this generation will be able to grow up to lead more fulfilled lives, while simultaneously building economic prosperity for themselves, their communities, and the globe.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Cloud & Systems Operations Lead

Location: Nigeria
Job Type: Full Time

About the Role

• We’re looking for a Cloud and Systems Operations Lead to play a pivotal role in our global technology operations team.
• You’ll own the infrastructure platforms and services that keep our organization secure, resilient, and scalable across multiple countries.
• This is a hands-on role where you’ll set technical direction for cloud operations, systems management, and UEM, while ensuring flawless day-to-day service delivery.
• A core mission is to replace fragmented, site-by-site infrastructure security solutions (like isolated firewalls or local consoles) with unified, centrally managed platforms that deliver consistency, efficiency, and governance.
• But this isn’t just about keeping the lights on, it’s about building for scale and speed.
• You’ll lay the rails so Level 2 support and application teams can run the trains without friction. You’ll modernize infrastructure, embed observability and automation, and create resilient foundations that empower product and software teams to move faster, safer, and with confidence.
• We also have an ambition to align more closely with the CIS-18 governance framework, continuously strengthening our infrastructure standards and the tools that enable our teams to work effectively.
• At the heart of this role is one simple driver: making things run better today than they did yesterday.

What You Will Do

• Lead global cloud and systems operations, setting direction and defining best practices.
• Design, deploy, and manage infrastructure in AWS (EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, ELB, Route 53, CloudWatch, EBS) and contribute to broader multi-cloud strategy discussions with software teams and our solutions architect.
• Administer and optimize Linux (Ubuntu) and Windows Server (2012–2022) environments, including patching, security hardening, and lifecycle upgrades.
• Ensure on-premise infrastructure, including networks, firewalls, VPNs, switches, and connectivity, is resilient, standardised, and centrally governed.
• Improve our identity and access posture and policies at the infrastructure layer in alignment with CIS-18 security governance ambitions.
• Drive automation through Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible) and scripting (Bash, PowerShell, AWS CLI).
• Advance observability and monitoring (CloudWatch, Zabbix, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog) to surface issues before they impact operations.
• Develop and execute backup and disaster recovery strategies aligned with business continuity expectations.
• Monitor and enforce system and network security standards for our firewalls, access controls and vulnerability management.
• Collaborate with developers to support CI/CD pipelines and production stability.
• Partner with L2 and Enterprise Applications support to align infrastructure with application administration.
• Maintain documentation to support operational excellence, standard operating procedures, standards and our knowledgebase.
• Relentlessly optimise infrastructure costs without compromising reliability or performance.

What You Should Have

• 7+ years leading enterprise-scale cloud and infrastructure operations (compute, storage, networking, security).
• Deep experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, or GCP); strong AWS knowledge preferred (EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, ELB, Route 53, CloudWatch, EBS).
• Proven expertise with Linux (Ubuntu) and Windows Server (2012–2022) administration.
• Expertise in infrastructure identity and access management (Active Directory, Group Policy, AWS IAM).
• Hands-on experience with Unified Endpoint Management (UEM) solutions for laptops, smartphones, and tablets.
• Proficiency with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible), scripting (Bash, PowerShell, AWS CLI).
• Experience with observability/monitoring tools (CloudWatch, Zabbix, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog).
• Proven disaster recovery and operational resilience experience.
• Solid understanding of security operations (firewalls, segmentation, access controls, vulnerability remediation).
• Strong collaboration skills with developers, DevOps and enterprise applications teams.
• Track record in infrastructure cost management and optimization.
• A proactive, confident approach, comfortable setting direction, defining best practices, and representing infrastructure operations to senior stakeholders.
• A proactive mindset that thrives in ambiguity, prioritises ruthlessly and executes with discipline.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Managing Director

Location: Nigeria

About the Role

• The Managing Director is responsible for providing overall leadership management and general technical direction of the entire program, ensuring an integrated vision among different components, functions and stakeholders, and a focus on achieving the results defined in the contract.
• You will be responsible for leading and overseeing the development, delivery and day-to-day management of a high quality, innovative, cost effective and sustainable education program resulting in immediate and lasting change for children and building the capacity of the duty bearers.
• This is a highly hands-on job, involving intense program management, broad technical knowledge covering financial management, supply chain, government relations and school operations management.
• For this role, we need someone who has the experience of managing highly complex and large programs with a lean team coupled with a deep passion for programme mission. Leadership, humility and self-awareness are a must to be successful.
• This is an incredibly fast-paced and absorbing role that will ask a lot of you but it will also be personally rewarding in that you will see the impact of your efforts first hand.

Responsibilities
What You Will Do:

• Act as the senior General Manager for the program, overseeing budgets, strategic and operational delivery and stakeholder management.
• Lead and manage the program team – providing the vision, day-to-day coordination, resource management, and supervision required to accomplish project objectives and to deliver superior quality products.
• Be the primary liaison with the designated Ministry of Education, State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) and elected political champions and his or her representatives, responding to client needs within the limits of the arrangement.
• Ensure quality control and the overall responsiveness of technical assistance provided, including necessary adjustments to operations to fit the requirements of the programme.
• Identify issues and risks related to program implementation in a timely manner, and suggest appropriate program adjustments.
• Ensure the technical and methodological soundness of activities and, in collaboration with the Collaborate with colleagues to solve problems and build a learning environment within the program team and other function heads of the organization.
• Responsible for on or under-budget delivery of all aspects of the programme.

Requirements
What You Should Have:

• Bachelor’s Degree essential, MBA (or Master’s) would be preferred.
• At least 10 years of progressively responsible experience working in project management and design in developing countries, preferably including experience in the state or country to which you will be assigned.
• At least 5 years of management experience, including direct supervision of professional and support staff and assembling teams working in multi-faceted roles including field based roles.
• A proven track record of excelling in the leadership of operational teams, as well as in design-thinking, process and system design and application, managing complex and inter-related functions, as this will be critical overseeing a large scale school system transformation.
• Prior experience within a fast-paced, high-growth, metric-driven operational organization will be an advantage.
• Strong management skills, leadership qualities, professional reputation, ability to build or access key contacts within the Ministry of Education or equivalent local and state regulatory bodies.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively with government representatives, for-profit private sector entities, local community organizations, donors, consortium members and other stakeholders, at national and sub-national levels.
• Respect and sensitivity towards cultural, gender, ethnicity and religious diversity.
• Maturity and confidence in dealing with high ranking officials of government institutions, international institutions and non-government institutions.
• Demonstrated excellent communications and writing abilities and superior interpersonal and cross-cultural communication skills.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience in building the Ministry of Education (or other relevant Government entity) and devolved structures capacity in developing and realizing education strategic plans to provide quality Education services is a plus.
• Passion for our vision of democratizing the right for all children to succeed.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidate should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Senior Business Intelligence Engineer

Location: Nigeria

Technology Group

• Technology plays a critical role enabling us to provide transformative education at massive scale in highly resource constrained environments.
• This is one of the key elements that gives us the ability to deliver radically impactful programmes, creating brighter futures for a generation of children across the world each day.
• Technology spans several key functions, including product management, business intelligence, software development and IT operations.Working with us, passionate technologists have a chance to directly change the world.

About the Role

• We have reached an inflection point where we need to take our data game to the next level. Instead of just providing data to our various departments, we need to start bringing to bear more sophisticated techniques to unlock the potential of our significant data sets.
• While we collect hundreds of thousands of data points every day from each of our programmes – from the time each teacher spends on each page of every lesson to every pupil’s answer to every question of every assessment – we are yet to fully realise the potential energy of these data sets.
• On a technical level, this shift means moving beyond traditional approaches to data engineering, replacing ETL batch processing and data warehousing with event-driven real-time data pipelines and a distributed data mesh; on an organisational level, it means reimagining business intelligence as a skill set embedded in our cross-functional delivery teams, not as a separate team with separate priorities and timelines. And it also means transforming the ways that we expose the data to our users, providing richer, more actionable interfaces.
• The Senior Engineer will help to lead the charge on this transformation, bringing experience to bear, both on the systems themselves, as well as mentoring and developing other team members.
• This role reports to the Business Intelligence Lead, but will routinely be embedded in cross-functional delivery teams, working collaboratively to deliver our next generation data products.

What You Will Do

• Build next generation event-driven data processing pipelines that cleanse, enrich, and aggregate a range of different data sets as part of a globally distributed and cross-functional software development organisation
• Deploy these data pipelines in line with continuous delivery practices and principles
• Improve the scalability, stability, accuracy, and efficiency of our existing data platform – it’s not all just green field!
• Develop and mentor other members of the business intelligence department
• Monitor our data platforms in order to identify and resolve issues and ensure high-availability of data insights
• Communicate with stakeholders to develop requirements, implement solutions, and collaborate on rollouts.

What You Should Have

• 5+ years of enterprise work experience in business intelligence, data engineering, and advanced analytics
• 2+ years of commercial, enterprise experience building data pipelines using Apache Spark and Python (future platform). Familiarity using these tools to consume data from RabbitMQ or Kafka is a plus.
• Experience with one or more types of NoSQL databases and data lakes
• Comfort with version control and continuous delivery
• Familiarity with relational databases, ETL, and reporting tools. Preference for Microsoft technologies (we currently use Microsoft SQL Server 2016/2019, SSIS, and SSRS)
• Fluency with warehouse design and dimension modelling (star schemas, snowflakes, etc)
• Experience or interest in results-driven, lean/agile environments
• Basic DBA skills
• Ability to prioritize and execute tasks in a fast-paced environment.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Quality Assurance Engineer, Software Development

Location: Nigeria

About the Role

• We are looking for a full time Quality Assurance Engineer to join our new Lagos, cross-functional software development teams, which will build the software that powers and improves our platform of educational tools.
• The Lagos team will have a special focus on the parts of the system that are more customer facing, experimental, or strategically important.
• The key to the QA role on our teams is  being a divergent thinker with a curious mind – a collaborator with developers in building great software, not an adversary, nor an order taker.
• If you’re looking to be a gatekeeper, NewGlobe will not be right for you. If you’re looking to get a perfect set of requirements handed to you, NewGlobe will not be right for you. O
• n the other hand, if you’re all about being an enabler of teams, curiosity and innovation, and more than anything, about automation and repeatability, then NewGlobe might just be your next gig.
• You will report to one of our software development team leads.

What You Will Do

• Collaborate with team members and business stakeholders to define acceptance criteria for software development projects, including participation in the design and estimation of new software to ensure that testing is not an afterthought
• Create and execute testing plans that include an appropriate combination of manual and automated testing, carefully reporting issues using structured tools and standards
• Advocate for a culture of automation and repeatability – and then get your hands dirty to make it a reality
• Follow testing practices to ensure the functional correctness, usability, scalability, and security of NewGlobe software
• Help resolve “works on my machine” automated testing issues by pairing with our software developers to run down environmental, network, or other complicating factors
• Deliver and manage automated testing tools for the constantly evolving needs of our various software platforms, including a range of web and mobile applications running across a variety of devices
• Integrate automated testing tools into build pipelines to promote a culture of continuous delivery
• Participate in the design, rollout, and use of monitoring tools in order to identify and resolve issues and ensure continuous integration of data into warehouses
• Devise approaches for validating and monitoring off-the-shelf and third-party software
• Participate in the design and use of application monitoring tools to reduce mean time to response and to maximise uptime
• Provide third-line technical support to in-house users.

What You Should Have

• Bachelor’s Degree with excellent academic performance
• 4+ years overall commercial software experience at the enterprise level
• Experience with different testing tools and patterns, such as contract testing for APIs and  end-to-end testing for apps. Proficiency with other types of testing, such as load testing, penetration and security testing, or usability testing a major plus
• Comfort with both Windows and Linux/Ubuntu
• A desire to learn new tech stacks and frameworks – if you’ve only got experience in a particular platform and you think that makes it the right answer, NewGlobe is not right for you
• Nice to haves:
• DevOps experience at the enterprise level
• Hands-on experience across with a continuous delivery platforms (e.g. Jenkins, Go.CD, CircleCI, TFS)
• Hands-on experience with Code as Infrastructure tools (Puppet, Chef, Ansible, etc.)
• Experience in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure)
• Experience in containerisation (Docker) and containerisation infrastructure (Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, etc.)
• A proactive mindset and comfort working without constant supervision
• Flexibility to respond to the changing needs of the business
• Ability to prioritise and carry out multiple tasks
• Fast learner, energetic, and enthusiastic.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidate should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Android Engineer

Location: Nigeria
Job Type: Full Time

About The Role

• We are looking for an experienced full time Android engineer to join our new cross-functional software development team, which will build the software that powers and improves our ability to deliver massive learning gains – at scale.
• The team will have a special focus on the learning management platform and the rest of the tech running in our academies (which is all Android based).
• This person will join an elite, interdisciplinary team that will be building the technology that will take Bridge to the next level. It’s a great opportunity to grow and learn, while working on developing software with a mission that few, if any, can compete with.
• We believe in innovation, fast feedback, and high impact.
• We have an existing portfolio of native Android applications that undergird our ability to support self-sufficient academy management, engage the local community, and deliver high-quality education to our pupils.
• However, we need someone that can drive the next generation of these platforms, ensuring high availability even in challenging conditions and generally driving innovation in the mobile space.
• It’s all about rolling up one’s sleeves to introduce best practices, deliver key functionality, and pave the way for exciting future possibilities, like adaptive curriculums and automated grading of tests (to name just a few).

What You Will Do

• Gather requirements, build, test, and ship new Android functionality for our academy tech platform
• Collaborate with the server-side developers to design the APIs for specifically for the Android application (not just consuming APIs that were already developed for a web app)
• Engage on all dimensions of the app, from UI and UX, to business logic, to storage and networking
• Introduce architectural patterns to improve scalability, stability, and maintainability.

What You Should Have

• Bachelor’s Degree in related fields with superior academic performance
• At least 3 years of professional Android development experience.
• Senior Android Engineer, especially published apps on Google Play
• Full lifecycle experience, from conceptualisation to deployment to feedback from production
• Experience with writing library projects that get reused across multiple android apps
• Knowledge of Gradle and DI helpful
• Experience architecting whole Android applications, not just adding features or porting existing apps
• Belief in the importance of automated unit, integration, and functional tests for Android apps
• Exposure to continuous integration and continuous delivery practices, especially in an environment of weekly (or even more frequent) releases to production
• Love for collaboration and working with driven stakeholders, including presenting work with confidence when interacting with business owners and users
• Openness and eagerness for learning new paradigms and practices
• Passion for NewGlobe’s vision of democratising the right for all children to succeed.

What We Offer

• The opportunity to make a difference for children every day at a proven, internationally recognized, mission-driven company.
• Flexible hybrid working arrangement.
• Take the lead and help us grow our engineering team
• The opportunity to work on challenging and innovative projects.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online