Site Reliability Engineer at Renmoney

Renmoney - We are a passionate team determined to challenge the status quo and make financial inclusion count for the millions of under-banked individuals and small business owners in Nigeria. We provide loans, savings, and fixed deposit solutions to our customers. Our vision is to be the most convenient lending company, delivering outstanding service experiences.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Site Reliability Engineer

Location: Ikoyi, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time
Department: Engineering

The Position

• We are seeking a Site Reliability Engineer who will maintain services once live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency, and overall system health with a focus on business activities and continuously evaluating cost and waste

Responsibilities

• Ensuring availability of UAT and production applications and foster capacity planning for production infrastructures. Monitoring of existing systems/applications using monitoring tools
• Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services from inception and design, through deployment, operations
• Troubleshooting problems that span systems, databases, storage, network, and codes while suggesting/implementing security measures for the protection of systems, networks, and information
• Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity
• Minimize and mitigate the risk of reliability-related failures pertaining to systems availability, performance, and correctness.
• Ensuring investigation into warnings and alerts from monitoring systems, Incident response, diagnosis, and follow-up on system outages
• Documentation of process and procedure manuals.

Academic Qualification(s)

• B.Sc. / HND Degree in Computer Science or Information technology-related course
• ITIL Foundation will be an added advantage.

Requirements:

• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in a similar role
• Working knowledge of databases and SQL
• Comfortable with Open-Source configuration management and orchestration tools (chef, Puppet, Ansible, Terraform, etc.)
• Knowledge of Docker, Docker swamp, Fargate, and Kubernetes
• Experience with caching systems such as Kafka and Redis
• Working experience with building monitoring tools and setting measurement metrics
• Proficiency with shell and a programming language used in an SRE/Operations engineering context (Python, Go, Ruby, etc.) will be an added advantage
• Experience with operating in a high availability environment
• Excellent communication skills with a high level of emotional intelligence
• Experience in working with remote teams
• Server Administration skills (Redhat, Windows, CentOs, Ubuntu)

Preferred:

• Hands-on experience working with AWS Fargate.
• Experience with Cloud infrastructure services like AWS, Azure, and GCS

We are the place for you, if:

• You are excited about technology and the future, and you are looking for a place to learn and grow.
• You care a lot about detail and pride yourself in impeccable execution.
• You can collect and analyze lots of data and feed in just the right amount of intuition to make sound decisions.
• You are ready to work extremely hard, at a fast pace, to achieve audacious goals.
• You love to speak up, ask questions, and are comfortable challenging anyone or any idea.

This job is perfect for you if you:

• Are creative and an out-of-the-box thinker
• Have excellent execution skills and are passionate about achieving excellence
• Enjoy analytical thinking and have problem-solving capabilities
• Enjoy collaborating with others, building relationships
• Have a high level of emotional intelligence
• Have excellent communication and delivery skill.

You will not enjoy this job if you:

• Work best in structured, hierarchical settings
• Require clear, pre-set deliverables and constant direction
• Are not used to working in/with a large team.

What is in it for you

• You will receive competitive compensation and work with amazing people.
• You will work in a beautiful environment with a flat structure and solve complex real-world challenges.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.