Senior DevOps Engineer (Contract) 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 an Senior DevOps Engineer in Lagos. The Senior DevOps engineer will support new and existing client projects while contributing towards ongoing product innovation.

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, Cloudfornt 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