Gokada is a technology company focused on changing the face of transportation in Nigeria starting with an on-demand motorcycle taxi service in order to solve some of the country’s most challenging problems in logistics and transportation. We aim to help millions of passengers across the country rethink how they move by providing a safe and affordable e...
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In this role, you will be accountable for engineering solutions, deployment & security strategies.
You will be working with cloud-native technologies such as Kubernetes, containerization, Helm, Git Ops, and Cloud infrastructure.
You are expected to use standard reference architecture to arrive at pipelines for cloud infrastructure, continuous integrations and continuous delivery/deployment.
Job Dimension
As the DevOps Engineer, you would report directly to the Head of, Engineering and you are expected to use standard reference architecture to arrive at pipelines for cloud infrastructure, continuous integrations and continuous delivery/deployment.
Responsibilities
Developing reusable Infrastructure code and testing frameworks for Infrastructure
Developing tools and frameworks to allow engineers to provision infrastructure and manage access controls
Design and develop solutions for cloud security, secrets management and key rotations
Design a centralized logging and metrics platform that can handle the s scale
Taking on new infrastructure requirements and developing infrastructure as code.
Working with Applications teams to help them onboard container platform
Scaling the platform to handle millions of requests concurrently
Drive solutions to reduce Mean Time To Recovery(MTTR), enable High Availability and Disaster Recovery
At least 2 to 5 years of in-depth and hands-on professional experience in the DevOps/Infrastructure Engineering domain.
Designing and implementing highly efficient solutions on Pubic Cloud (Amazon Web Services) for security, resilience, performance, networking, availability, Blue-green deployments in the context of business applications.
Security Hardening of cloud infrastructure application/web server against known/unknown vulnerabilities. Understands compliance and security.
Deliver best in class operations tooling & practices, including CI/CD. Must have an in-depth understanding of SDLC.
Writing infrastructure as code for public or private clouds and implement modern cloud Integration architecture using Configuration and Infra Management (Chef/Puppet/Ansible and Terraform), CI tools (Any), Scripting language: Python, Shell, Go (proficient in anyone), Container services like Docker, Kubernetes, EKS/GKE etc.
Designing and implementing end to end monitoring solutions in the cloud.
Strong experience with AWS services like Kinesis, Lambda, EC2, Fargate, RDS, DocumentDB/Mon
AWS certificate is desirable
Microservice architecture
Autoconfiguration
Version management
Dependency Management
Deploy & Release
Monitoring management.
Hands-on working experience in monitoring B2B or B2C websites (eCommerce, real estate, etc.) and make recommendations to stabilize or improve the applications.
Collaborate with other stakeholders in the engineering & product management team to identify and resolve issues
Demonstrated expertise in Agile software development methodology.
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