Senior DevOps Engineer

Reporting Line: Chief Technology Officer

Job Location: Victoria Island, Lagos + Partly Virtual

About the role: The incumbent is responsible for tech infrastsructure, maintainanace and configuration the company server hardware, operating systems, software and other network infrastructure internally and in conjunction with organizations providing support.

Responsibilities:

  • Responsible for the tech infrastructure, mostly based on AWS and Digital Ocean
  • Administer multiple AWS services including EC2, S3, RDS, VPC,PostgreSQL, Route 53 etc
  • Enable Developers and Operations to build and deploy applications to multiple environments quickly and rapidly with ease.
  • Perform end-to-end automation from Continuous Integration (CI) to Continuous Delivery (CD), on AWS and DigitalOcean Cloud Providers
  • Develop BASH scripts for various system administrative purposes
  • Drive improvements to our build and release scripts, tools, and processes.
  • Perform penetration testing, security auditing and best practice implementation across all teams.
  • Continuously improve the reliability, stability, and performance of the infrastructure
  • Collaborate with the team to define architecture, quality standards, and best practices.
  • Automate and streamline our operations and processes for scale.

The Ideal Person

The Ideal Candidate must have:

  • Experience building, operating, and scaling systems on AWS, Digital Ocean
  • Experience using container technology and orchestration tools such as Docker, ECS or Kubernetes
  • Experience with using and configuring CI/CD pipeline toolsets like CircleCI, GitLab, Jenkins
  • Experience with software development testing techniques, including integrating automated testing into a CI/CD pipeline
  • Experience using configuration management tools such as Ansible, Packer, and Terraform
  • Proficiency with Linux and scripting languages like BASH, Python
  • Solid understanding of the various phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
  • Previous experience in financial services is preferred but not necessary
  • Competent in Version Control with Git,Bitbucket or GitHub
  • Experience of working in alignment with common security frameworks/standards e.g. PCI-DSS, ISO27001

Salary: Salary band starts at N600,000 naira with perks and bonuses. Company is willing to increase any of the wage parameters for an exceptional candidate.

TechAdvance is a payment application development company with a strategic focus in developing and deploying niche payment companies to serve the needs of large public and private sector organisations in Nigeria.