DevOps Intern ( NYSC) at eHealth4everyone

We are looking for a DevOps Intern that will assist in building functional systems that improve customers’ experience and collaborate with software developers, system operators, and other IT team members to manage code releases.

Responsibilities:

• Deploy product updates and fixes.
• Enforce best DevOps practices in every aspect of the software development process.
• Identify production issues and implement integrations that meet customer needs.
• Execute and automate operational processes fast, accurately, and securely.
• Build tools to reduce the occurrence of errors and improve customer experience.
• Research, develop and/or deploy software to integrate with internal back-end systems.
• Perform root cause analysis for production errors and maintain a log of determined causes and fixes.
• Investigate and resolve technical issues on staging and production environments.
• Develop scripts to automate database backup and restoration, application deployment, etc.
• Design procedures for system troubleshooting, root cause analysis and maintenance.
• Continuously analyze system performance in production, troubleshoot reported issues, and proactively identify areas in need of optimization.
• Developing and driving real-time monitoring solutions that provide visibility into site health and key performance indicators.

Qualifications and Skills:

• Degree in Computer Science / Computer Engineering or other related areas.
• Skill in Relational Database Administration, Capacity Management, Availability Management, Systems Design, and Integration, Systems Security.
• Expertise in Linux and Windows operating systems and shell scripting.
• Six months Technical experience working with cloud technologies.
• Working knowledge of MS Office is an added advantage.
• Working understanding of Load balancing technologies.
• Working understanding of IT service management.
• Working understanding of version control tools such as Git
• Demonstrable experience with CI/CD tools for pipeline creation and management to facilitate deployment and release management e.g. GitLab, Jenkins, CircleCI, etc
• Experience with Chef, Puppet, or Ansible, automating all aspects of system and server management.
• Solid background in the deployment of web applications based on Python,Vue.js and Node.js.
• Good understanding of distributed systems and container technologies like Docker/Kubernetes container infrastructure and orchestration.
• Experience with DNS, Networking, and High Availability solutions.
• Experience with webservers in a linux environment, i.e. Nginx, Apache2 and techniques for load balancing and SSL configuration
• Good understanding of monitoring tools such as Prometheus and Grafana for server monitoring and notifications
• Experience using an array of automation tools, for backups, restoration, deployment, monitoring, etc..
• Teamwork, problem-solving attitude, decision making, customer orientation.