Platform Engineer at Growth in Value Alliance (GVA) Partners Limited

Growth in Value Alliance (GV Alliance) Partners is a business advisory and market intelligence services firm. Our objectives are to assist organizations to achieve their growth aspirations by providing market intelligence, strategy blueprint, IT solution delivery expertise and business operation improvement capabilities.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Platform Engineer

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Contract

Job Description

• Design RedHat Enterprise Linux v7.x/8.x Operating System configurations in support of Platform as a Service (PaaS) infrastructures and OpenShift Platform.
• Design and implement automated deployment and configuration tools for RedHat Enterprise Linux in support of Platform as a Service (PaaS) and OpenShift Platform.
• Administer, optimize, and secure RedHat Enterprise Linux v7.x/8
• Design and develop an architecture of PaaS infrastructure based on Docker, Cri-O and Kubernetes.
• Design and develop an architecture of PaaS infrastructure in a hybrid Cloud environment.
• Create custom Docker and/or Linux containers.
• Manage Image repositories in support of Docker and/or Linux containers.
• Deploy a PaaS solution based on OpenShift software and industry best practices.
• Automate Docker application builds using industry standard tools such as Jenkins.
• Automate the creation of PaaS infrastructure using industry standard tools such as Ansible.
• Troubleshoot and resolve problems and issues within the PaaS infrastructure and OpenShift Platform.
• Have the ability to research problems, contact and escalate issues with vendor and other third party hardware and software providers.
• Provide technical support during a disaster recovery exercise or in the event of an actual disaster at either the Primary or Backup Data Centre.
• Work with the team and application sponsors to resolve issues that arise in the daily administration of the UNIX/Linux environment and OpenShift Platform.
• Troubleshoot and resolve problems for all applications.
• Support, implement and maintain new applications coming into the environment.
• Present status information on issues and problems to stakeholders.
• Document software changes and problem resolution steps.

Job Requirements

• Candidates should possess a Bachelor' Degree qualification.
• Minimum of 2 years work experience.

Application Closing Date
30th December, 2021.