Job Offers at Sparkle Nigeria

About the Role:

• Sparkle is looking for a DevOps Engineer who understands the DevOps culture and practices; and can be a champion for this within the organization.
• The DevOps Engineer believes that building great software is more than just delivering working code, that other aspects such as reusability, testability, maintainability, security, and performance are just as important.
• The ideal candidate can think long-term incremental evolution, in sync with the industry practices and innovation.

What you will be doing:

• Management of internal infrastructure
• Promote infrastructure best practices like security, release management, monitoring
• Design infrastructure that is resilient, secure and highly available
• Facilitate the building and releasing of features by the Technology team
• Take part in building a secure and highly available platform
• Automate common operations on critical systems in a safe and reliable manner
• Build tools and processes that increase the productivity of the Technology team and ensure an efficient release pipeline
• Support and collaborate with other Developers building on top of the platform
• Share responsibility for strategically scaling Sparkle’s internal systems
• Bring vision to the team in the form of new technology recommendations, ideas and approaches

Do Apply If you have:

• At least 5 years of software development experience
• Solid foundation in Linux administration and troubleshooting
• Experience with system scripting languages like Bash, Python or Golang
• Experience with Docker and container orchestration tools like Azure Kubernetes, ECS, Docker Swarm
• Deeply familiar with concepts like DevOps and Continuous Delivery
• Experience with working with tools like Terraforms, Ansible, Chef, Puppet
• Experience with at least one major cloud provider
• Strong understanding of computer science principles
• Experience working in an agile environment (standups, sprint planning, retrospectives, etc)
• Solid written and verbal communication
• Experience with system automation
• Experience with distributed systems

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What you get to do everyday

• Competent in performing all programming and development assignments without close supervision
• Works with Design, UX, and Product Manager to ensure an optimal and consistent user experience.
• Defines and sets a project’s roadmap to include planning for integration of new technology, ownership of code libraries, and backlog of technical tasks
• Works independently on complex systems or infrastructure components that may be used by one or more applications or systems.
• Serve as an ambassador for development and a champion of quality standards while spreading a passion for current technology and new trends
• Drives application development focused around delivering business valuable features
• Participates as an active team member of daily standups and other agile-focused efforts, including joining sprint planning meetings and estimating work effort on tasks assigned to the entire team
• Supports the Technology team with developing a structured application/interface code, new program documentation, operations documentation and user guides in a casual, flexible environment
• Communicates with end users and internal customers to help direct development, debugging, and testing of application software for accuracy, integrity, interoperability, and completeness
• Performs integrated testing and customer acceptance testing of components that requires careful planning and execution to ensure timely, quality results.
• Employee is also responsible for performing other job duties as assigned by Sparkle management from time to time.

About You:

• Degree in Engineering, Computer Science or a related field from an accredited university
• Has at least 4 years of experience working as a Software Engineer
• Expert level understanding of Laravel & PHP
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Azure cloud hosting platform
• Proven ability to problem-solve and de-bug
• Has a vibrant personality and exceptional communication skills (English; verbal and written)
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Competency working/deploying projects with a source control tool; GIT preferred

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Interested applicant(s) should possess relevant qualification and experience

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Interested applicant(s) should possess relevant qualification and experience