DevOps Engineer at Sparkle Nigeria

About the Role

• We are looking for a DevOps Engineer who understands the DevOps culture and practices; and can be a champion for this within the organization.
• The DevOps Engineer believes that building great software is more than just delivering working code, that other aspects such as reusability, testability, maintainability, security, and performance are just as important.
• The ideal candidate can think long-term incremental evolution, in sync with the industry practices and innovation.

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

Requirements

• You have at least 5 years of software development 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 system.