DevOps Engineer at Babban Gona Farmer Services Nigeria Limited

Babban Gona Agricultural Franchise is a financially sustainable, high impact and highly scalable social enterprise, which is part-owned by the farmers it serves. Babban Gona is an innovative model designed to serve the bottom of the pyramid and transform agriculture into a job-creation engine. Through this agricultural franchise, Babban Gona offers a suite of services to smallholder farmers, helping them to overcome the challenges of fragmentation and low economies of scale.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: DevOps Engineer

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time
Industry: Technology

Key Responsibilities

• Implement automation pipeline for continuous integration and delivery of our web and mobile applications using Jenkins.
• Deploy and maintain applications and services deployed within our cloud environment.
• Implement and manage alerting systems (Prometheus, Grafana) to deliver health, vulnerability notifications within communication channels to technology stakeholders.
• Identify opportunities to improve/ automate manual processes resulting to time wastage.
• Support Quality Assurance unit to automate manual and regression testing using appium.
• Documenting application artifacts using nexus
• Building the bridge between Engineering (Dev & QA) and IT Operations.
• Collaborate with developers on software requirements, as well as interprete test stage data.
• Other responsibilities and tasks required to support organizational goals and objectives.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems or other related field. Master's degree in a related field preferred.
• Up to 5 years of experience in DevOps.
• Experience working with Kubernetes and containers
• Experience working in cloud environment - Google Cloud, AWS, Digital Ocean.
• Proficient using Git and other version control systems.
• Demonstrate proficiency with scripting languages (Python, Bash) Experience with creating, running, and troubleshooting native builds.
• Automate the delivery of software packages to Babban Gona application users.
• Advanced knowledge of programming languages such as Python and Java, and writing code and scripts.

Other Requirements

• Ability to install and configure software, gather test-stage data, and perform debugging.
• Ability to ensure smooth software deployment by writing script updates and running diagnostics.
• Proficiency in documenting processes and monitoring performance metrics.
• Advanced knowledge of best practices related to data encryption and cybersecurity.
• Ability to keep up with software development trends and innovation.
• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills.
• Utilize various open source technologies.
• Review and recommend solutions and tools to improve the software development process
• Proven ability to leverage technology to translate business requirements.

Start Up Environment:

• Thrives in a fast paced, start-up environment with dynamic business priorities.

Work Location:

• Babban Gona currently operates a decentralized model with 10 offices spread across Nigeria.
• This role would be remote.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Health Insurance
• Pension
• Performance Bonus
• Annual paid vacation
• Group Life Insurance.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.