Senior DevOps Engineer at Venture Garden Nigeria (VGN)

Lovation: Ikeja, Lagos

Job Description

• The Senior Dev Ops Engineer will be tasked with the management and development of continuous integration and deployment solutions for production applications across various sites/software.

Responsibilities

• Spearhead the creation of new technology infrastructures and maintain configuration management and automation tools.
• Assist the development teams in the deployment and monitoring of applications based on technologies such as C#, Java, Python, Ruby, SQL Server, MySQL, Postgresql, Elasticsearch, Logstash, Filebeat, Kibana, and RabbitMQ.
• Coaching the engineering development department personnel in the workings of reusable tools and patterns, for example, reusable deployment code for Jenkins, Octopus, Ansible, and Docker.
• Keeping up with industry best practices and trends on behalf of the Automation/Dev Ops department and the larger engineering department

Qualifications
Essential Competencies:

• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or any other relevant field
• At least 5 years of working experience in a DevOps capacity, preferably as a DevOps Engineer
• Experience automating and managing large-scale infrastructure and have significant familiarity with
• Docker/Puppet/Chef/Ansible/Powershell DSC/Kubernetes. The candidate will have had vast experience in systems automation, orchestration, deployment, and implementation
• Experience with Jenkins, Windows Server, NGINX, Apache, Bash, Powershell, IIS, Linux, C#, Java, Python, Ruby, SQL Server, MySQL, Postgresql, Elasticsearch, Logstash, Filebeat, Kibana, and RabbitMQ.
• Ability to work closely with other engineers, product managers, and customer support

Skills:

• Must be highly analytical and effectively able to troubleshoot and prioritize needs, requirements and other issues.
• Excellent communications, teamwork, and conflict management skills.
• Attention to details, decisiveness, good judgment, strong organization skills, good written communication skills
• Excellent working knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, e-mail applications and using the internet;
• Speed and versatility
• Values others, and cultures
• Self-starter and Acts with integrity

Personal qualities:

• Ability to succeed in fast-paced environments at a high-growth company; comfortable with tight timelines; possessing a sense of urgency.
• Ability to find creative solutions to problems combined with a willingness to do what one must to ensure timelines & goals are met.
• Ability to maintain composure and communicate effectively under stress
• Ability to work with minimal supervision and take initiative in pursuing departmental functions
• Gets things done! Execution oriented
• Focused, diligent and task-oriented
• Must have exceptional follow-up skills and be able to maintain focus while multitasking

Additional Information
Working conditions:

• Flexibility is important.

Equal opportunity:

• The role is open to anyone who meets the above criteria regardless of race or nationality

Remuneration
Competitive based on experience