DevOps Engineer at Co-creation Hub

CcHUB is Nigeria’s first open living lab and pre-incubation space being designed to be a multi-functional, multi-purpose space where work to catalyze creative social tech ventures take place. The HUB is a place for technologists, social entrepreneurs, government, tech companies, impact investors and hackers in and around Lagos to co-create new solutions to the many social problems in Nigeria.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: DevOps Engineer

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Description

• The DevOps Engineer will be responsible for managing and  optimizing our current cloud architecture. He/She is an advocate for new and relevant technology as well as for DevOps principles, helping us to build and deploy state of the art services in a fast, secure and cost efficient manner. In this role, you will have the opportunity to work alongside and support our other members of the engineering team who work cross-functionally with product and design to share and learn best practices.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Ongoing monitoring of the organisation's digital architecture, checking for performance and compliance
• Planning the evolution of software and IT systems
• Working with development teams on the building of websites, applications, and software pieces
• Keeping up with the management of internal databases
• Working to resolve issues and problems with systems and software, and to put in place measures to ensure these issues do not reoccur
• Working with planning departments to get software and systems up and running in a timely manner, and ensuring long-term scalability for the business
• Developing digital infrastructure and working on automated code to improve efficiency and reduce risk
• Testing and maintaining digital infrastructure in the long term
• Building frameworks for software and application deployment
• Building platform environments to support auto-scaling for the business in the future
• Liaising closely with both development and operational teams
• Conducting analyses, and feeding this data back to relevant teams to support their efforts
• Staying on top of industry best practices and trends, as well as changes to compliance requirements

Qualifications

• University degree, preferably in IT or Computer Science
• 4+ years experience managing digital services
• Extensive experience of DevOps and leading a DevOps transformation would be a significant strength
• You would be defining and setting development, test, release, and support processes for DevOps operation.
• Proven leader in a team environment.
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.
• Experience working with AWS
• Experience developing CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with Docker
• Experience configuring Authentication services (e.g. Auth0, Microsoft Active Directory).
• Experience with Agile software development and Test-driven development.
• Bonus: experience with Microsoft Azure infrastructure.
• Bonus: experience with GraphQL.
• Know how to build automated processes wherever possible.

What We Offer

• Paid time off
• Healthcare coverage
• A highly collaborative team environment that will support your professional and personal growth
• Work alongside great talent.
• A culture of learning and innovation. 
• Opportunities for career growth and training.
• Interaction with industry leaders and forward-thinking people. 
• A chance to make a social difference.
• Overall fun company. 

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online