• Application Deadline:
• Position: DevOps Engineer


• Job Type Full Time


• Qualification BA/BSc/HND


• Experience 3 years


• Location Lagos


• Job Field ICT / Computer 
  

Job Description

• To be successful in this role, you must be comfortable practicing test-driven development because it produces high-quality, reliable, and more maintainable code and ensure that all outputs remain safe for public consumption.

What you will do

• Specification and documentation of the new project features.


• Utilize various open-source technologies


• Use various tools to orchestrate solutions


• Build independent web-based tools, microservices, and solutions


• Write scripts and automation using Perl/Python/Groovy/Java/Bash


• Configure and manage data sources like MySQL, Mongo, Elasticsearch, Redis, Cassandra, Hadoop, etc

Requirements

• A degree in Computer science, Software engineering, or any related field from a reputable University.


• 3+ years of professional experience as a DevOps / System Engineer


• Fluent in Python and Python testing best practices


• Experience working in and advocating for agile environments


• Extensive experience working within AWS and with its managed products (EC2, ECS, ECR, R53, SES, ElastiCache, RDS, Redshift, etc)


• Strong experience working with automation tooling (Terraform, Ansible, etc)


• Strong experience with containers (Docker, Compose, ECS, Kubernetes)


• Strong experience with managed and self-hosted CI/CD tooling Jenkins and others like Travis, Drone, Mule, and Spinnaker)


• Strong understanding of DNS, TCPDUMP, CDNS, SSL, Git, Firewalls, and networking concepts (VPC, subnetting, VPNs, etc).


• Experience deploying microservice architecture, applications, and supporting services


• Experience working on high-traffic, international systems


• Familiar with software security best practices


• Understanding of monitoring tools (Pagerduty, CloudWatch, Datadog, Sentry, etc)


• Experience working within large-scale decoupled, service-oriented systems a plus


• Configuration Management experience with Ansible or similar (Chef, Puppet, Salt)


• Experience with Version Control Software (Git preferred)


• AWS Certifications: AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified Developer, AWS


• Certified SysOps Administrator, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer


• Setup and management of a Kubernetes cluster, including writing Dockerfiles and Helm


• Continuous Integration setup and administration


• Release Engineering: deployment pipelines; continuous deployment


• Open-source Monitoring experience (Sensu preferred)


• Database administration of Mysql, Postgresql, or similar


• Management of growing Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana stack


• Architecting highly available distributed systems