Senior DevOps Engineer at Aku Fintech Services Limited

Aku is a digital bank licensed by the CBN to offer easy payment, simple banking for everyone. Send/receive money and pay bills via USSD, app, cards. We are on a mission to help africans get paid and grow.We leverage the power of tech to drive financial inclusion - one mobile device at a time.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior DevOps Engineer

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Summary

• The Senior DevOps Engineer will be responsible for building and scaling the foundations for production engineering, developer operations, and deployments.
• You will be responsible for keeping the ship sailing smoothly, and your creations will serve as the bedrock for products serving millions of users.
• The ideal candidate will be passionate about designing and developing tools for a fully automated, cloud-ready, highly resilient, and monitored environment.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and automate our production environments, including AWS infrastructure planning, scaling, monitoring, and security.
• Architect modern web, microservices, and cloud-native distributed systems based on containers, Kubernetes.
• Architect, design, and automate cloud-native CI/CD workflows and tools, using Jenkins, AWS CodePipeline, or similar tools.
• Work in cross-functional teams, delivering new features while maintaining existing systems.

Requirements

• Interested candidates should possess a Bachelor's Degree
• Minimum of 4 years experience in production applications and systems support. Strong experience with Cloud Native technologies (Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform).
• Experience in building pipelines and CI/CD workflows using tools like Jenkins,
• Experience with cloud platforms – AWS, GCP
• Solid knowledge of at least one scripting language
• Experience with infrastructure as code, containerization, virtualization, and configuration management
• Monitoring application and Platform performance
• Experience with collaboration in an international agile team
• Experience with Database Administration (MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis).
• Experience with end-to-end software development lifecycle and delivery using Agile practices.
• Strong background in cloud and application security.
• Experience in managing servers in Virtual Environment (AWS EC2, GCP VM), Remote management via SSH
• Install and configure software packages via RPM and source code
• Solid experience with Continuous Integration (CI) tools (Jenkins)
• Solid experience with Amazon Web Services (e.g.: ECRs, S3, Code Build)
• Working experience with containers Docker and Kubernetes.

Benefits

• MacBook Pro
• Flexible working hours
• Remote friendly
• Health Insurance
• Team building events
• Paid Leave Days.

Application Closing Date
5th July, 2022.