Senior DevOps Engineer at the People Practice

The People Practice - Our client is a Digital Bank providing seamless solutions to Nigerians, is recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior DevOps Engineer

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Description

• Our client is looking to hire a Senior DevOps Engineer who will work to improve software development and release lifecycle efficiencies by modernizing our processes & workflows and building a robust Continuous Integration/Deployment pipeline.
• The Senior DevOps Engineer will provide guidance in organizing, securing, and automating existing product development workflows and must be proficient with agile development processes and best practices.

Responsibilities

• Understanding customer requirements and project KPIs
• Implementing various development, testing, automation tools, and IT infrastructure
• Planning the team structure, activities, and involvement in project management activities.
• Managing stakeholders and external interfaces
• Setting up tools and required infrastructure
• Defining and setting development, test, release, update, and support processes for DevOps operation
• Have the technical skill to review, verify, and validate the software code developed in the project.
• Troubleshooting techniques and fixing the code bugs
• Monitoring the processes during the entire lifecycle for its adherence and updating or creating new processes for improvement and minimizing the wastage
• Encouraging and building automated processes wherever possible
• Identifying and deploying cybersecurity measures by continuously performing vulnerability assessment and risk management
• Incidence management and root cause analysis
• Coordination and communication within the team and with customers
• Selecting and deploying appropriate CI/CD tools
• Strive for continuous improvement and build continuous integration, continuous development, and constant deployment pipeline (CI/CD Pipeline)
• Mentoring and guiding the team members
• Monitoring and measuring customer experience and KPIs
• Managing periodic reporting on the progress to the management and the customer.

Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject
• Minimum of 5 years experience in DevOps engineering, team management and collaboration
• Relevant experience in a strategic role in the banking/payments/fintech space preferrable.
• Proven experience in managing Linux based infrastructure
• Hands-on experience with databases including MySQL, Mongo & Elasticsearch
• Advanced knowledge of programming languages such as Python and Java, and writing code and scripts.
• Ability to install and configure software, gather test-stage data, and perform de-bugging.

Application Closing Date
20th April, 2023.