Data Analyst at Sparkle Nigeria

About the Role

• Sparkle is looking for a Data Analyst who has an eagle’s eyes for details and a deep understanding of the business.
• The data analyst will help extract and manipulate data from various data sources in order to develop data-driven solutions which would help address business problems.
• Also, the data analyst will play a key role in the decision-making process of the business.

What You'll be Doing Everyday

• Manage internal infrastructure
• Promote infrastructure best practices like security, release management, monitoring
• Design infrastructure that is resilient, secure and highly available
• Facilitate the building and releasing of features by the Technology team
• Take part in building a secure and highly available platform
• Automate common operations on critical systems in a safe and reliable manner
• Build tools and processes that increase the productivity of the Technology team and ensure an efficient release pipeline
• Support and collaborate with other Developers building on top of the platform
• Share responsibility for strategically scaling Sparkle’s internal systems
• Bring vision to the team in the form of new technology recommendations, ideas and approaches.

Do Apply if You Have

• You have at least 5 years of software development / DevOps experience
• You have a solid foundation in Linux administration and troubleshooting
• You have experience with system scripting languages like Bash, Python or Golang
• You have experience with Docker and container orchestration tools like Kubernetes, ECS, Docker Swarm
• You are deeply familiar with concepts like DevOps and Continuous Delivery
• You have experience with working with tools like Terraforms, Ansible, Chef, Puppet
• You have experience with at least one major cloud provider
• You have strong understanding of computer science principles
• You have experience working in an agile environment (standups, sprint planning, retrospectives, etc)
• You have excellent written and verbal communication skills
• You have experience with system automation
• You have experience with distributed systems.