Lead DevOps Engineer at Kuda Bank

Kuda is a full service, app-based digital bank. Our mission is to be the go-to bank not just for those living on the African continent, but also for the African diaspora wherever they might live, anywhere in the world. Kuda is free of ridiculous banking charges and great at helping customers budget, spend smartly and save more. We raised the largest seed round ever seen in Africa, and completed a Series A funding round in February 2021, led by some of the world's smartest venture capital investors. With offices in London (our HQ), Lagos and Cape Town, and further offices opening across Africa during 2021, Kuda is fast becoming recognised as the leading 'Neobank' for Africans.

To help us grow into the company that can bring meaningful change to the way people across Africa get access to great financial products and services in order to take control of their personal finances, we are actively looking for bright, talented, driven people who are excited by our mission. If this sounds like a great way to spend your valuable time, then please get in touch with us.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Lead DevOps Engineer

Location: Lagos
Job Type: Full Time
Department: Tech

The Role

• We are in search of a DevOps Engineer focused automation, deploying CI/CD tools and source control on AzureDevOp.

Other responsibilities include:

• Creating software deployment strategies that are essential for the successful deployment of any kind of software in the work environment.
• Collaboratively creating and updating the DevOps toolchain for continued relevance.
• Shared responsibility in the practice of continuous integration, continuous testing, continuous deployment and observability of deployed software solutions and the underlying infrastructures.
• Ownership of the practice of continuous delivery, configuration management, infrastructure as code and reliability engineering practice.
• Collaborate with stakeholders such as developers, software testers, DBAs, security specialists, product/project managers, etc on key initiatives.
• Enable developers’ efficiency and effectiveness through developer platforms, automation, etc.
• Coaching and mentoring other DevOps engineers.
• Keeping up to date with industry trends and best practices.

Requirements
Qualifications:

• Bachelor's or higher in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent experience
• 3+ years of industry experience
• Professional certifications are a plus

Experience:

• Have basic system administration and Linux skills. He/She should have practical knowledge of different build tools and CI/CD Platforms (Azure DevOps is a Plus)
• Have experience with at least one of GCP, AWS & Microsoft Azure (preferably Azure & AWS)
• Have experience with system automation, deployment, and implementation.
• Have experience with the DevOps practices such as CI/CD, continuous testing, observability, post-mortem, chaos engineering.
• Have experience with software development processes, tools and languages such as Python, .NET, Mobile Development, relational and NoSQL databases, scripting, and Git.
• Have experience with event-driven and distributed systems and the niche SaaS in the domain such as ElasticSearch, Redis, Kafka, etc
• Have experience with technologies such as Ansible, Terraform/Pulumi, Datadog, Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, etc
• Have experience with Kubernetes orchestration and management
• Have experience maintaining and support monitoring and alerting systems
• Have experience supporting and troubleshooting relational databases and distributed platform
• Have working knowledge of monitoring and event management tool Implementations
• Personal Attributes:
• Willing to embrace and enrich Kuda culture of empathy, teamwork and passion
• Have a strong desire for learning and growth.
• Have a sense of ownership and pride in your performance and its impact on the company’s success
• Are a critical thinker and possess problem-solving skills
• Are a team player
• Have good time-management skills
• Have great interpersonal and communication skills
• Can take the initiative and adapt to a fast-paced work environment

Benefits
Why join Kuda?
At Kuda, our people are the heart of our business, so we prioritize your welfare. We offer a wide range of competitive benefits in areas including but not limited to:

• Pension
• Competitive annual leave plus bank holidays
• Group life insurance
• Health insurance
• L&D training
• We are advocates of work-life balance and offer a 3 day per week remote working option

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.