• Application Deadline:
• Position: DevOps Solutions Engineer


• Job Type Full Time


• Qualification BA/BSc/HND


• Experience 2 years


• Location Lagos


• Job Field ICT / Computer 
  

Location: Yaba, Lagos, Nigeria

Department: People Operations

Sector: Financial Services / FinTech

Reports To: Lead Platform Architect

About the Role

• DevOps engineering activities at Paga fall within the Platform team which in turn falls within the Product Development group along the software engineering, product management and software support teams.


• As a DevOps Engineer at Paga, you will be responsible for creating and maintaining innovative and reliable continuous deployment and integration of Paga’s various applications and components.


• In addition, you will be responsible for configuring and maintaining some aspects of our platform where Paga’s applications are deployed.

Primary Responsibilities

• Design, implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines


• Manage application deployments on Kubernetes


• Manage application databases running on MSSQL and PostgreSQL


• Design and maintain application monitoring and metrics collections


• Build tools to reduce occurrences of errors and improve existing software engineering processes through automation


• Provide technical support by performing root cause analysis on QA and production infrastructures


• Design and document procedures for system troubleshooting and maintenance


• Strive to continuously improve existing processes used within the platform and software engineering teams.

Knowledge and Skill Requirements

• A Degree in a related discipline


• 2+ years continuous experience working on enterprise containerized application deployment automation and integration and 1+ years of experience in Java web application development


• While we use an increasingly diverse software and platform stack, the following technologies and skills are most heavily used and therefore important to have some experience in:


• Jenkins CI/CD solutions


• Kubernetes & Docker containerization frameworks, deployment & management


• Azure cloud services and management


• Java web application development and deployment using Tomcat


• Infrastructure as code practices


• Relational DB administration (SQL Server, PostgreSQL)


• Application monitoring solutions like Prometheus, Grafana and Kibana


• DevOps Automation using bash scripting and Terraform

To be an effective Cloud Solutions Engineer at Paga you must:

• Be able to create and maintain new and existing application deployment automation and integration within our cloud based platform


• Be able to diagnose and troubleshoot application deployment and runtime issues


• Be able to work closely with product engineering, testing and platform teams


• Be able to quickly grasp abstract deployment and integration requirements and translate them into appropriate cloud based CI/CD solutions


• Be meticulous about scripting and testing solutions to foster knowledge transfers, scalability and repeatability


• Be able to multitask well and be comfortable juggling multiple product development streams at once. Be comfortable with rapid change and be comfortable taking ownership to deliver results in a high-pressure product development environment


• Have a passion for quality and an ability and willingness to grow the ability of others in your team to meet those standards. Drive quality delivery across teams with which you work


• Communicate clearly and transparently.