Site Reliability Engineer at Nomba (Formerly Kudi)

Nomba - Launched in 2017 as "Kudi.ai", a chatbot that responds to financial requests on social apps, Nomba spent its first five years  empowering independent businesses to act as neighborhood banks offering basic financial services such as cash withdrawal, transfer and bill payments to all Nigerians, especially those in underserved communities. We currently process more than $500m in payments monthly.

Today, with over 250 employees and more than 150,000 businesses on our platform, our vision is to enable economic prosperity by supercharging businesses to run efficiently and meet their goals. We are creating a distinct gateway into the digital economy for businesses of all sizes by providing them with access to everyday tools that simplify payments and drive their growth.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Site Reliability Engineer

Location: Lekki Phase 1, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

About the Position

• Ensure your team is immediately aware of production errors and prioritizes their repair.
• Provide architectural input to the teams’ development process from an operations and infrastructure POV, including but not limited to monitoring, alerting, persistence, tradeoffs given the state the available hardware, etc.
• Provision cluster resources, repositories, CI/CD pipelines, and credentials for your responsible team and systems to consume.
• Providing updates to the entire company during outages and downtime, scheduled maintenance and more in a professional, respectful, and timely manner.
• Strive to work at the highest standards possible along with the rest of your team.

About You

• Bachelors or higher in STEM course.
• 3 years working as a software engineer/site reliability engineer professionally.
• 3 years developing Python + Linux/Mac/Unix environments + git professionally.
• 3 years working with Linux/Unix user environments, e.g. bash, grep, awk, sed, etc.
• 2 years of experience working with cloud infrastructure, e.g GCP, AWS.
• 2 years working with CI/CD tools, e.g. Jenkins, CircleCI, TravisCI, Semaphore.
• 2 years working with SQL and NoSQL databases, e.g. PostgreSQL, Cassandra, MongoDB.
• 2 years working with code as infrastructure tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Saltstack, Chef, Puppet.
• Solid knowledge and experience in networking, e.g. HTTP, TCP, UDP, DNS, VPN ( IPSec, Wireguard), routing, firewalls, etc.
• Solid knowledge and experience in encryption and security, e.g. AES, ECC, PKCS, PKI, OpenSSL, JWT.
• Experience with Linux system administration, e.g. systemd, iptables, top, stat commands, kernel tuning, user management.
• Experience working with containers & container orchestration, e.g. Docker, Kubernetes.
• Experience with logging, monitoring, and incident management tools, e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, Cloud Logging, Opsgenie, Pagerduty.
• Experience working with Web Servers/Load Balancers, e.g. Nginx, Apache, HAProxy.
• Love for automation.
• Ability and willingness to pick up new technologies quickly and be productive.

Nice to Have

• Multilingual (programming) skills, in particular Python, Java, Javascript / Typescript, Golang.
• Experience with Bazel.
• Experience with identity and access management solutions eg. Keycloak.
• Experience implementing PCI DSS, ISO 27001, ISO 22301 policies/standards.  
• Experience with Google BigTable.
• Experience managing Github organizations and repositories.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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