DevOps Engineer - HabariPay at Guaranty Trust Holding Company (GTCO)

Guaranty Trust Holding Company (Formerly Guaranty Trust Bank Plc) is a multinational financial institution that provides individuals, businesses, private and public institutions across Africa and the United Kingdom with a broad range of market-leading financial products and services. Headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria and with subsidiaries in Cote D'Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Liberia, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Sierra Leone and the United Kingdom, the Bank currently employs over 12,000 professionals and has Total assets and Shareholders’ Funds of N4.057trillion and N661.1Billion respectively. 

We are recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: DevOps Engineer - HabariPay

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full Time

Details

• HabariPay is a young start-up on the path to building a pan-African payments unicorn with a high-impact founding team and backing from a multinational financial services company.
• At HabariPay, you will have access to best-in-class tools and resources to enable you solve truly complex problems, developing game changing payments solutions. We provide an enabling environment to deliver quality work by giving flexibility to design a lifestyle that works for you provided business and customer targets are met.
• We prioritize agility which translates into a culture of transparency, open and honest feedback and constant iteration. We are committed to ensuring a professional development that matches industry standards and personal goals.
• We are committed to helping you bridge your skills gap and invest in grooming our talents to be on par with colleagues, globally. We offer a clear career progression path that is comparable to best in class.

Job Summary

• As a DevOps engineer, you will support the maturity of the micro-services architecture for different solutions to achieve full or near-full automation and orchestration of tools.
• You will also support the development teams to improve Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) tooling and ensuring that they adhere to a strict release management cadence through automation.

Job Duties and Responsibilities

• Automating processes with open-source tools for CI/CD and testing.
• Analyzing, executing, and streamlining DevOps practices.
• Facilitating development processes and operations.
• Establishing a continuous build environment to accelerate software deployment and development processes.
• Instituting a DevOps culture within the solutions development team.
• Architecting overall, comprehensive, and efficient practices.
• Guiding developers and operations teams to resolve issues.
• Implementing and improving monitoring and alerts across the suite of products by automating performance monitoring, reporting any downtimes and carrying out root cause analysis.
• Designing and improving infrastructure and team collaboration.
• Designing a setup environment for users, making the experience better, more automated and intuitive.
• Keeping all code changes within a single system enabling modifications and testing.
• Optimizing product or update release cycles.
• Building a high-quality reusable code that can be used in future developments.
• Creating sustainable and functional web applications with clean codes.
• Learning about new technologies and staying up to date with current best practices.

Job Requirements and Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or any related courses. 
• 4+ years of experience as a DevOps specialist. 
• 2+ years of hands-on experience of programming in languages such as Node JS, .Net C# or similar object-oriented language.
• Experience with automating cloud native technologies, deploying applications, and provisioning infrastructure.
• Experience developing cloud native CI/CD workflows and tools, such as Jenkins, Bamboo, TeamCity, Code Deploy (AWS) and/or GitLab.
• Hands-on experience with microservices and distributed application architecture, such as containers, Kubernetes, and/or server less technology.
• Experience with the full software development lifecycle and delivery using Agile practices.

Application Closing Date
11th February, 2022.