DevOps Automation Engineer at Cavista

Cavista is a global technology company creating cloud-based software solutions for clients. With operations around the world, we globalize, standardize and localize our processes, while at the same time remaining sensitive to specific needs in different regions. Our mission is to empower organizations with the world’s best technology solutions.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: DevOps Automation Engineer

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Description

• Lead and mentor other engineers in the team for best practices while ensuring effective documentation of how the company's products and services are deployed, provisioned, configured, and supported. 
• Work closely with software engineering and customer-facing teams developing infrastructure and applications, with a focus on driving stability, reliability, scalability, operability, and automated fault recovery of services for company's products and services. 
• Develop innovative ways to smartly measure, monitor & report application and infrastructure health. 
• Evaluate best practices/methodologies for provisioning, configuration management, monitoring to improve organization-wide visibility into how distributed systems interact and perform in production. 
• Document your processes and share knowledge. 
• Troubleshoot issues along with developers, providing systems level and architecture insight to the current issue. 
• Apply DevOps and SRE principles and technologies to support and improve software and infrastructure security across development, testing, and production environments. 
• Assist with planning and implementing migrations to cloud-based infrastructure. 
• Ability to perform quick RCA of any complexity. 
• Wear many hats, while bringing the ability to learn and grasp a complete understanding of the software delivery and application support process. 

Qualifications

• Minimum of five (5) years experience in the fields of SRE, DevOps or production engineering. 
• Strong Windows and Linux Scripting, Scripting languages (Bash, PowerShell, Python). 
• Experience with system configuration software such as Salt, Puppet, Ansible (Salt preferred but not required). 
• Solid understanding of web protocols such as HTTP, TLS, HTTP/2. 
• Solid understanding of Nginx and HAProxy, or similar web proxies and load balancers. 
• Strong Monitoring and alerting experience (ELK, Grafana, Zabbix). 
• Experience with SRE and/or DevOps best practices. 
• Strong customer focus and confident in making critical decisions independently in a fast paced and demanding environment. 
• Experience with git in a multi-contributor/team GitOps environment. 
• Networking experience –trouble shooting networking configuration issues in general. 
• Experience with containerization and orchestration frameworks like Docker and Kubernetes is a plus. 
• Experience supporting applications and services on Linux, with experience supporting Dot Net and IIS application in Windows Server a plus. 
• Experience supporting microservice based SaaS applications is a plus. 

Benefits
We offer a competitive compensation package (DOE), benefits and growth opportunities for everyone who joins Cavista!

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Application Stages
Online Application:

• We want to know you better
• Share your basic details and upload your resume
• You will receive an email response with the next step
• Intro Video Interview
• You will receive a link from Mettl to complete a short video where you will answer questions to share your knowledge

Team Interview:

• We want you to learn about us
• Meet our team for your in-person interview(s). 
• Interview us as well

Programmers: Coding Assessment:

• Complete a coding assessment; share with us your method for problem-solving.