Senior Devops Engineer at uLesson Education Limited

uLesson is a venture-backed education technology business whose mission is to deliver high-quality, affordable, and accessible education to all Africans. Our app hosts thousands of educational video tutorials that combine quality lessons delivered by experts in education, with digital animations and illustrations to explain key concepts; thereby, providing students with a learning experience that is unprecedented in its richness, scope, interactivity, and effectiveness.

We currently provide students between the grades of 4 and 12 with access to high-quality, curriculum-relevant, animated video lessons. At the moment, our uLesson App has been downloaded over 2 miliion times and we’ve been featured by credible media houses like CNN, Venturebum, Techcrunch, Quartz and Business insider.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior Devops Engineer

Location: Abuja (FCT)

Job Description

• We are seeking a product-focused Senior DevOps Engineer to join our engineering team. As Senior DevOps Engineer, you will be defining and setting development, test, release, update, and support processes for DevOps operation.
• Overall, you will be joining a team of 20+ members, including Product Managers, Product Designers, Frontend, Backend, Web & Mobile Engineers as well as QA engineers. Our goal is to ship quickly and iteratively as we deliver continuous value to our customers.
• The team functions using agile methodologies and is very high on ownership and collaboration.

Key Responsibilities

• Defining and setting development, test, release, update, and support processes for DevOps operation
• Troubleshooting techniques and fixing code bugs related to deployments
• Monitoring the processes during the entire lifecycle for its adherence and updating or creating new processes for improvement and minimizing server resource wastage
• Encouraging and building automated processes wherever possible
• Identifying and deploying cybersecurity measures by continuously performing vulnerability assessment and risk management
• Incidence management and root cause analysis.
• Selecting and deploying appropriate CI/CD tools
• Strive for continuous improvement and build continuous integration, continuous development, and constant deployment pipeline (CI/CD Pipeline)

Qualifications and Skills

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer (Added advantage),
• Extensive experience as a DevOps engineer on AWS.
• Experience with infrastructure as code tools like terraform, packer and AWS cloud Formation.
• Experience managing code repositories and building pipelines using Github and Jenkins.
• Experience working with AWS services such API gateway, EKS, Database Migration service, RDS, SQS.
• Experience designing, implementing, and monitoring log collection with tools such as Data dog and Cloud Watch.
• Experience creating dashboards and configuring alerts with tools like CloudWatch, Jira, and Slack.
• Experience with DNS, Networking and High Availability solutions..
• Proven scripting experience with experience in multiple scripting languages: Python, PowerShell, Bash, PHP, JavaScript, etc.
• Must have experience with Linux operating systems, setup and manage databases (PostgreSQL and MySQL).
• Experience with configuration management tools such as chef, ansible and puppet.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Terraform Associate (Added advantage).

Compensation
NGN 900,000 - NGN 1,250,000 / Month.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.