• Application Deadline:
• Position: Senior DevOps Engineer



• Job Type Full Time , Hybrid



• Qualification BA/BSc/HND



• Experience 3 years



• Location Lagos




• Job Field ICT / Computer 
  
  

About the Role

• We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced DevOps Engineer to join our Cloud Operations squad. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in building high-performance, scalable, mission-critical, and secure systems in the cloud to scale our infrastructure further with efficient tools such as Kubernetes and Terraform. 


• You will drive the evolution of major parts of our growing platform,  serving millions of customers across multiple countries. 


• You will be joining our amazing and diverse team, learning and helping others to learn something new every day.

About Your Role

• Build and maintain scalable, cost-effective, and reliable systems with technologies such as Kubernetes in GCP cloud environment


• Improve our CI/CD process and increase the level of automation at Yassir in order to increase our efficiency


• Play a key role in handling incidents, and support engineering teams with their infrastructure needs


• Develop infrastructure as code as required


• Introduce processes, documentation, best practices, and tools that would help our engineering teams be more productive


• Automate deployment and scaling processes to minimize downtime.


• Continuously improve infrastructure and processes to increase efficiency and reduce costs.

Requirements

Technical Skills:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field.


• At least 3 years of experience in a similar role building and maintaining large-scale, distributed infrastructure environments  in the cloud 


• Strong experience with Linux administration and scripting languages (Bash, Python, TypeScript, etc)


• Proven Experience working with Containers and Container Orchestration technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes


• Proven Experience with configuration management tools such as Terraform, CDK for Terraform, Pulumi


• Proven Experience working with cloud infrastructure and services (GCP, AWS, Azure) with at least 1 year of experience building and maintaining services in GCP


• Previous experience with CI/CD processes


• Previous experience with Node.JS or Python


• Strong understanding of network protocols and security best practices.


• Familiar with relational and non-relational database models (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Redis)


• Experience with ElasticSearch, LogStash, and Kibana is a plus


• Experience with Prometheus and Grafana is a plus.

Other key skills and traits:

• Outstanding written & verbal communication skills


• Demonstrated ability to prioritize, self-start, contribute under pressure, and meet tight deadlines


• Highly organized, creative, and critical thinker


• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills


• Comfortable working in an entrepreneurial environment


• Organized and obsessive about details


• Hard-working, passionate, and looking to embrace the challenge.