• Application Deadline:
• Position: DevOps Automation Engineer


• Job Type Full Time


• Qualification BA/BSc/HND


• Experience 5 years


• Location Lagos


• Job Field ICT / Computer 
  

Job Description

• Lead and mentor other engineers in the team for best practices while ensuring effective documentation of how the company's products and services are deployed, provisioned, configured, and supported. 


• Work closely with software engineering and customer-facing teams developing infrastructure and applications, with a focus on driving stability, reliability, scalability, operability, and automated fault recovery of services for company's products and services. 


• Develop innovative ways to smartly measure, monitor & report application and infrastructure health. 


• Evaluate best practices/methodologies for provisioning, configuration management, monitoring to improve organization-wide visibility into how distributed systems interact and perform in production. 


• Document your processes and share knowledge. 


• Troubleshoot issues along with developers, providing systems level and architecture insight to the current issue. 


• Apply DevOps and SRE principles and technologies to support and improve software and infrastructure security across development, testing, and production environments. 


• Assist with planning and implementing migrations to cloud-based infrastructure. 


• Ability to perform quick RCA of any complexity. 


• Wear many hats, while bringing the ability to learn and grasp a complete understanding of the software delivery and application support process. 

Qualifications

• Minimum of five (5) years experience in the fields of SRE, DevOps or production engineering. 


• Strong Windows and Linux Scripting, Scripting languages (Bash, PowerShell, Python). 


• Experience with system configuration software such as Salt, Puppet, Ansible (Salt preferred but not required). 


• Solid understanding of web protocols such as HTTP, TLS, HTTP/2. 


• Solid understanding of Nginx and HAProxy, or similar web proxies and load balancers. 


• Strong Monitoring and alerting experience (ELK, Grafana, Zabbix). 


• Experience with SRE and/or DevOps best practices.[MB1]  


• Strong customer focus and confident in making critical decisions independently in a fast paced and demanding environment. 


• Experience with git in a multi-contributor/team GitOps environment. 


• Networking experience –trouble shooting networking configuration issues in general. 


• Experience with containerization and orchestration frameworks like Docker and Kubernetes is a plus. [MB2] 


• Experience supporting applications and services on Linux, with experience supporting Dot Net and IIS application in Windows Server a plus.[MB3]  


• Experience supporting microservice based SaaS applications is a plus. [MB4]