DevOps Engineer at Seamfix

Location: Lekki, Lagos

Role Summary

• The DevOps Engineer will be responsible for the deployment, technical accuracy, and completeness of integrated system designs across our development, testing, staging, and production environments

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Setup new servers with operating system (windows or linux) and required software
• Installation and maintenance of DevOps tools like Gitlab, Jenkins, Ansible, Nexus, Nagios, Graylog
• Deployment of application and web servers to test, staging or production environment
• Ensure the sanity of test, staging and production environment
• Constantly seek new tools to make CI/CD process faster and more reliable
• Performance tuning of web and application servers
• Manage cloud infrastructure on AWS
• Automation of application deployment
• Setup and maintain application health dashboards
• Prepare server setup checklists and procedural documents
• Ensure fast load speed and size of websites and applications
• Ensure High availability and redundancy of all applications
• Plan and document disaster recovery processes for all the company’s critical applications
• Conduct bi-annual disaster simulation to ensure disaster recovery processes remain relevant and effective
• Train Junior and Associate DevOps Engineers
• Participate in recruitment process for DevOps Engineers
• Liaise with security engineers to ensure security of applications in production
• Liaise with developers to ensure applications are highly scalable and performing optimally

Educational Qualifications & Experience Required

• A First class or Second class upper Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics or a related field
• 5 to 7 years’ experience in DevOps or system administration
• Familiar with at least 1 scripting language
• Experience coding java
• Experience with cloud hosting, specifically AWS
• Hands on familiarity with docker or kubernetes
• Very familiar with at least 1 RDBMS
• Good knowledge of SQL
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Demonstrates excellent collaborative skills
• Experience using DevOps tools
• Basic understanding of networks.

Essential Competencies & Attributes:

• Excellence driven
• Strong ownership mind-set
• Strong leadership skills
• Impeccable integrity
• Critical thinking and problem solving capabilities
• Dynamic and active
• Possess a can-do mind-set.