DevOps Engineer at eRecruiter Nigeria

Our Client is a highly advanced technology platform created to drive and power the new digital payments revolution in Africa. They have an opening for a DevOps Engineer. The DevOps engineer will support new and existing client projects while contributing towards ongoing product innovation. He/she will report to the Lead, Infrastructure Services

Responsibilities

• Assist with support and development of infrastructure and security tools.
• Build and manage automated testing and validation for both software and system configuration.
• Build and manage automation pipelines for operational workflows.
• Build and manage automation inside configuration management tools.
• Assist with delivering highly secure and efficient solutions within comprehensive compliance regulations (including ISO27100, HIPAA, PCI DSS, etc.)
• Assist in integrating diverse technologies in multiple environments to provide monitoring, alerting, and reporting of performance and costs.
• Manage work in an agile operations framework, balancing sprint-based work with daily operational needs.
• Assist in troubleshooting and resolving system outages or performance impact, and communicate findings for ongoing improvement
• Work directly with the development team to test system integrity
• Test implemented designs
• Consult with peers for feedback during testing stages
• Handle code deployments in all environments
• Monitor metrics and develop ways to improve
• Provide technical guidance and educate team members and co-workers on development and operations
• Brainstorm for new ideas and ways to improvement development delivery
• Build, maintain, and monitor configuration standards
• Maintain day-to-day management and administration of projects
• Document and design various processes; update existing processes
• Improve infrastructure development and application development
• Follow all best practices and procedures as established by company

Requirements

• Minimum of bachelor’s degree/ HND in Computer/System/ Electrical/ Electronic Engineering/ Applied physics/ Computer Science or a related discipline
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Relevant certification such as ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library)
• Extensive experience as a DevOps engineer on AWS
• Experience managing code repositories, build orchestrations, using Github, Jenkins
• Experience working with AWS services such API gateway, EKS, Cloudfront Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka, AWS WAF, Database Migration service
• Experience designing, implementing, and monitoring log collection with tools such as Guard duty and CloudWatch
• Experience creating dashboards and configuring alerts with tools like CloudWatch, JIRA, and Slack
• Experience with tools like Zabbix, Prometheus, an ELK stack
• Experience with infrastructure as code tools like terraform, packer and AWS cloud Formation
• Proven scripting experience with experience in multiple scripting languages: Python, PowerShell, Bash, PHP, java script, etc
• Experience with building deployment pipelines using jenkins
• Must have experience with Linux infrastructures, database SQL(PostgreSQL and MySQL)
• Experience with configuration management tools such chef, ansible, puppet