DevOps Engineer at Cornfield Group

From its modest start in Lagos, Nigeria, Cornfield Group has grown into one of the leading and best managed conglomerates in Nigeria particularly and West Africa at large. From the very beginning, Cornfield Group’s approach to business was essentially consumer oriented, delivering the highest quality products and services at the most pocket friendly pricing. Sensing the rising demand for quality products, Cornfield Group invested heavily in fixed infrastructure that supported maximum distribution of its products and services at the most cost effective terms to customers. Spanning more than one decade, we have broken grounds and challenged the status quo across the global business scene. Effective leadership coupled with high spirited and dedicated workforce is the framework upon which the growth and success of our organization are hinged.

We are recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: DevOps Engineer

Location: Lagos
Job Type :Full Time

Job Summary

• A DevOps Engineer is an expert who supports developers, implements best practices, and ensures smooth code deployment to production servers. They optimize software development processes, focusing on efficiency and reliability, with expertise in operating system design and database management systems software installation.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Implement integrations requested by customers.
• Provide Level 2 technical support.
• Build tools to reduce occurrences of errors and improve customer experience.
• Develop software to integrate with internal back-end systems.
• Perform root cause analysis for production errors.
• Investigate and resolve technical issues.
• Develop scripts to automate visualization.
• Design procedures for system troubleshooting and maintenance.
• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate the build, test, and deployment processes for applications and services.
• Promote the use of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles to maintain infrastructure changes in version-controlled scripts.
• Continuously optimize system performance and resource utilization, identifying and addressing bottlenecks to improve application speed and reliability.
• Create and maintain comprehensive documentation, including architecture diagrams, standard operating procedures, and system diagrams.
• Handles any other job assigned from time to time by the Management.

Education Qualification, Certification and Experience

• B.Sc in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline.
• Good knowledge of software languages.
• Work experience as a DevOps Engineer or similar software engineering role.
• Infrastructure scalability and performance optimization.
• Automation of operational tasks.
• Linux and Windows system administration.
• Microsoft Certified: Azure DevOps Engineer Expert.
• 3 - 5 years minimum proven experience in a related field

Core (Behavioural) Competencies:

• Excellent Communication
• Integrity and ethics
• Self-motivation
• Organizational Agility
• Time management
• Result-orientation
• Teamwork
• Customer service
• Continuous Learning Culture

Functional / Technical Competences:

• Software release management and deployment (Git, CI/CD)
• Agile and Scrum methodologies
• Presentation skills
• Conceptual and creative skills
• Working knowledge of databases and SQL
• Web analysis tools
• Analytical and quantitative thinking
• Problem-solving
• Decision-making
• Team spirit
• Accuracy and Accountability.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.