DevOps Solutions Engineer at Pagatech Limited

Location: Yaba, Lagos, Nigeria
Department: People Operations
Sector: Financial Services / FinTech
Reports To: Lead Platform Architect

About the Role

• DevOps engineering activities at Paga fall within the Platform team which in turn falls within the Product Development group along the software engineering, product management and software support teams.
• As a DevOps Engineer at Paga, you will be responsible for creating and maintaining innovative and reliable continuous deployment and integration of Paga’s various applications and components.
• In addition, you will be responsible for configuring and maintaining some aspects of our platform where Paga’s applications are deployed.

Primary Responsibilities

• Design, implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines
• Manage application deployments on Kubernetes
• Manage application databases running on MSSQL and PostgreSQL
• Design and maintain application monitoring and metrics collections
• Build tools to reduce occurrences of errors and improve existing software engineering processes through automation
• Provide technical support by performing root cause analysis on QA and production infrastructures
• Design and document procedures for system troubleshooting and maintenance
• Strive to continuously improve existing processes used within the platform and software engineering teams.

Knowledge and Skill Requirements

• A Degree in a related discipline
• 2+ years continuous experience working on enterprise containerized application deployment automation and integration and 1+ years of experience in Java web application development
• While we use an increasingly diverse software and platform stack, the following technologies and skills are most heavily used and therefore important to have some experience in:
• Jenkins CI/CD solutions
• Kubernetes & Docker containerization frameworks, deployment & management
• Azure cloud services and management
• Java web application development and deployment using Tomcat
• Infrastructure as code practices
• Relational DB administration (SQL Server, PostgreSQL)
• Application monitoring solutions like Prometheus, Grafana and Kibana
• DevOps Automation using bash scripting and Terraform

To be an effective Cloud Solutions Engineer at Paga you must:

• Be able to create and maintain new and existing application deployment automation and integration within our cloud based platform
• Be able to diagnose and troubleshoot application deployment and runtime issues
• Be able to work closely with product engineering, testing and platform teams
• Be able to quickly grasp abstract deployment and integration requirements and translate them into appropriate cloud based CI/CD solutions
• Be meticulous about scripting and testing solutions to foster knowledge transfers, scalability and repeatability
• Be able to multitask well and be comfortable juggling multiple product development streams at once. Be comfortable with rapid change and be comfortable taking ownership to deliver results in a high-pressure product development environment
• Have a passion for quality and an ability and willingness to grow the ability of others in your team to meet those standards. Drive quality delivery across teams with which you work
• Communicate clearly and transparently.