Job Openings at Strategic Outsourcing Limited

Duties & Responsibilities

• Design and implementation of continuous delivery solutions or architecture patterns.
• Certify compliance of infrastructure to requirements & specifications.
• Administration & support of web and databases servers
• Patching installation, backups, failover planning and disaster recovery.
• Log management
• Technical support for deployed solutions
• Domain renewals
• SSL configuration
• CDN and DNS administration
• Maintain CI/CD pipelines
• Testing and examining code written by others and analysing results
• Ensuring that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats
• Identifying technical problems and developing software updates and ‘fixes’
• Working with software developers and software engineers to ensure that development follows established processes and works as intended
• Working on ways to automate and improve development and release processes.

Skills / Education / Experience / Other Requirements

• First Degree or equivalent in any discipline
• 5+ years DevOps experience
• Azure DevOps
• Azure Cloud - App Service, VM, Docker, AKS, Application gateway, CDN, Front door
• Web servers - URL rewrite, domain mapping, SSL configuration, Reverse proxy
• Networking/VPN/Firewalls
• DNS, Load balancer
• Databases
• Bash/Shell scripting – process automation
• Excellent communication skills
• Good organisational skills
• Basic knowledge of HTML, CSS, Javascript, NodeJs, C#
• Awareness of DevOps and Agile principles.

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Duties & Responsibilities

• Gather user requirements and identify new features
• Writing efficient code
• Working closely with web designers and programmers to produce the functional web applications
• Constant communication with other colleagues in the business to develop and deploy their content and ensuring there is a clear establishment of what can be created within what timeframe
• Maintaining software (database) documentation – creating and maintaining data dictionaries for all the applications that we develop.
• Design stable, reliable and effective databases
• Optimize and maintain legacy systems
• Modify databases according to requests and perform tests
• Solve database usage issues and malfunctions
• Develop and maintain ETL routines
• Provide data management support to users
• Ensure all database programs meet company and performance requirements
• Research and suggest new database products, services and protocols
• Gather and refine specifications and requirements based on technical needs
• Stay plugged into emerging technologies/industry trends and apply them into operations and activities
• Ability to multitask with strict time constraints, budgets and business goals
• Supervise and develop less experienced members of the team.

Education / Knowledge, Skills, Attributes, Experience & Other Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Statistics or relevant field
• 5+ years’ experience in the use of stored procedures, views, triggers, and functions.
• Advanced certification as an MCDBA or MCSD for .NET is advantageous.
• Proficiency in data manipulation languages, including MS SQL Server (mandatory), Oracle Database, Hadoop, or PostgreSQL
• Experience in UI/UX design.
• Excellent knowledge of MS SQL Server and Azure SQL Database development (including scripting in T-SQL),
• Proven working experience as a MS SQL Server Developer
• In-depth understanding of data management (e.g. permissions, recovery, security and monitoring)
• An appreciation of Object-Oriented Programming, and web application development would be beneficial.
• A functional knowledge of business intelligence data mining and analysis tools (e.g. Power BI, Tableau) will be advantageous.
• Creative problem-solving skills
• Strong organizational skills to juggle multiple tasks within the constraints of timelines and budgets with business acumen
• Ability to work and thrive in a fast-paced environment, learn rapidly and master diverse web technologies and techniques.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with a strong attention to detail, a head for problem solving. and teamwork skills
• Great attention to detail
• Organizational skills
• An analytical mind.

Skill Set Required:

• T-SQL scripting experience (mandatory)
• Azure SQL Database development
• HTML/XHTML, CSS, JavaScript (preferrable)
• Experience with server-side frameworks such as Java, ASP, ASP.NET – C# (advantageous).

Salary
N2,000,000 - N3,500,000 / Annum.