DevOps Engineer - Remote at Branch International

Branch delivers world-class financial services to the mobile generation. With offices in the United States, Nigeria, Kenya, and India, Branch is a for-profit socially conscious company that uses the power of data science to reduce the cost of delivering financial services in emerging markets. We believe that everyone, everywhere deserves fair financial access. The rapid spread of smartphones presents an opportunity for the world’s emerging middle class to access banking options and achieve financial flexibility.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: DevOps Engineer

Location: Lagos (Remote)
Employment Type: Full-time
Department: Engineering
Level: Mid Level

Job Overview

• As part of our DevOps team, you will design, architect, build, and automate the infrastructure that hosts a variety of applications ranging from financial products to our Machine Learning workloads for all our markets.
• You will be responsible for innovating and employing best practices when it comes to deployment, database management, security, and performance.
• As a subject matter expert, you will be expected to evangelize DevOps as a culture within the engineering organization.

Responsibilities

• Improve infra automation using modern tools. 
• Optimize spending and improve elasticity on our infrastructure.
• Be responsible for continuously evaluating and implementing evolving best practices.
• Keep our systems and services secure by ensuring adherence to security best practices. 
• Ensure availability with redundancies of all the critical components.
• Provide expert opinions for architecture and infrastructure decisions.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in DevOps preferred
• Extensive exposure to at least one major cloud platform like AWS, GCP, or Azure with commonly used services.
• Hands-on experience with deployment and orchestration technologies like Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, and Terraform.
• Understand networking concepts and protocols, and the ability to build VPCs and traffic flows.
• Ability to take care of monitoring, alerting, logs, user access, certificate and keys management, etc.
• Know your way through various flavors of Unix and commonly used command-line utilities.
• Proficiency with at least one mainstream scripting language like Bash or Python as well as commonly used server software like PostgreSQL, Redis, etc.
• Being able to wear a DBA hat and tune PostgreSQL performance at query and storage engine level is a plus.
• Strong ability to quickly learn new technologies and keep up with the latest in DevOps.
• You are highly entrepreneurial. You take the initiative to solve problems before they arise. You’ve started and/or contributed to projects you’re passionate about.
• You are a great collaborator. You know that startups are a team sport. You listen to others, speak your mind, and ask the right questions.

Benefits of Joining

• Mission-driven, fast-paced and entrepreneurial environment
• Competitive salary and equity package
• A collaborative and flat company culture
• Fully paid life and health insurance benefit with Axa Mansard (Platinum plan)
• 28 days of paid vacation days, 30 days sick leave, bereavement leave, and periodic mental health days
• Fully paid parental leave - 6 months maternity leave and 3 months paternity leave
• Pension benefit 
• Monthly WFH stipend alongside a one time home office set-up budget
• Annual professional development budget 
• Discretionary trips to our offices across the globe, with global travel medical insurance (when it’s safe to travel!)
• Weekly team meals and social events (virtual for now!)
• Flexible working hours
• Where we work: Remote first, with the option to work in-person occasionally

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.