DevOps Engineer at Alfred & Victoria Associates

Alfred & Victoria Associates is one of Nigeria’s leading ICT solution based company. Our company offers a wide range of services which are in high demand of today’s emerging market. AVA has three major arms which have been streamlined to meet our customer's needs.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: DevOps Engineer

Location: Lagos
Job Level: Senior
Department: Technology
Reports to: Chief Technology Officer
Supervision: Chief Technology Officer

Job Duties and Responsibilities

• You will be the custodian of all production systems powering various products and service offerings across Publishers, Ad Exchanges, Telcos and Financial Services. These products deliver the most relevant content and ads real-time.
• We run one of the largest AWS workloads in Africa with hundreds of servers. Our ambition as a business provides you an opportunity to strategically influence the evolution of a world-class production platform, processes, methodologies, technologies and so much more.
• You will be involved in decision making and in rolling out the changes with your team.
• Your ability to adapt to a fast-moving environment will be a key element to our success. Your technical background and autonomy will help you fit with in.
• We are still a young company where there is still a lot to build and drive.
• Implement and manage a CI/CD Pipeline.

Qualification/Competencies Required

• 2-4 years’ experience as a DevOps engineer.
• Knowledge of AWS services and extensive experience deploying dev, staging and production workloads.
• Hands on experience with container technologies like Docker / Kubernetes.
• Strong hands-on experience in Systems Engineering/DevOps is required.
• Experience in working on a Linux production platform, running Web Services (NginX, Apache, etc)
• Demonstrated a strong knowledge of Linux Systems or Windows.
• Fundamentals (CentOS, Windows 2008 R2, Windows 2012)
• Strong experience in scripting with one of the following languages: Python, Bash etc.
• Good understanding of networking concepts (load balancers, routers) as well as System Administration.
• Demonstrated experience troubleshooting problems, including impact assessment.
• Experience in working with local and remote teams to resolve large scale production issues and escalation to the right level.
• Skills in identifying recurring issues to design and implement automatic response.
• Strong experience with either automation frameworks Puppet, Chef, Ansible etc) and/or monitoring tools (Nagios, Centreon, Graphite, Kibana etc) or configuration management.
• Experience with performance monitoring/tuning.
• Experience working with large scale deployments in cloud or hybrid environments.
• Proficiency with incident management.

Salary
Very attractive.

Application Closing Date
15th July, 2019 (Time: 3:00pm)

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their tailored CV to: apply@alfred-victoria.com using the "Job title" as the subject of the email.

Note: Any application received after this time will be automatically rejected.