• Application Deadline:
• Position: Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)



• Job Type Full Time



• Qualification BA/BSc/HND



• Experience 4 - 7 years



• Location Lagos




• Job Field ICT / Computer 
  
  

The Role

• The Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) is responsible for ensuring the availability, reliability, scalability, and performance of business-critical applications and infrastructure. The role combines software engineering and operations expertise to automate processes, improve platform stability, and enhance system observability.

What You Will Do

• Design, implement, and maintain highly available and scalable infrastructure.


• Monitor production systems and proactively identify performance bottlenecks.


• Manage incident response, root cause analysis (RCA), and problem management activities.


• Develop automation scripts and tools to improve operational efficiency.


• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines.


• Manage cloud infrastructure across AWS and hybrid environments.


• Configure and maintain observability platforms including monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions.


• Define and track SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.


• Support application deployments and release management processes.


• Collaborate with Engineering, Security, Data, and Product teams to improve system reliability.


• Perform capacity planning and disaster recovery testing.


• Ensure infrastructure and systems comply with security and regulatory requirements.

Requirements

What You Bring

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.

Experience

• 4–7 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Cloud Engineering, or Infrastructure Operations.


• Experience supporting mission-critical financial services or fintech platforms is an advantage.

Technical Skills

• Strong knowledge of AWS services (EC2, ECS/EKS, RDS, Lambda, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch).


• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation).


• Knowledge of containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).


• Experience with CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, Azure DevOps).


• Experience with monitoring tools such as Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, New Relic, or ELK Stack.


• Strong Linux administration skills.


• Experience with scripting languages (Python, Bash, PowerShell).


• Understanding of networking, DNS, load balancing, VPNs, and security controls.

Preferred Certifications

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect.


• AWS SysOps Administrator.


• Kubernetes Certifications (CKA/CKAD).


• HashiCorp Terraform Associate.


• Key Competencies


• Problem-solving and analytical thinking.


• Incident management and troubleshooting.


• Automation mindset.


• Strong communication and collaboration.


• Attention to detail.

This Role Is Ideal For You If

• You enjoy solving complex infrastructure and reliability challenges.


• You are passionate about automation and reducing operational overhead.


• You thrive in highly available, customer-facing environments where up-time matters.


• You enjoy working across Engineering, Security, Data, and Product teams to improve system performance.


• You are proactive and constantly seek opportunities to improve reliability, scalability, and efficiency.

You May Not Enjoy This Role If

• You prefer manual processes over automation.


• You are uncomfortable responding to production incidents and troubleshooting critical issues.


• You prefer working in isolated environments with limited collaboration.


• You are not interested in continuous learning and evolving cloud technologies.