Application Administrator (DevOps / SRE) at Qore - Appzone Limited

Appzone Limited is Africa's leading provider of Integrated Banking and Payment software platforms and incidentally creator of BankOne; the world's leading cloud infrastructure for Banking and Payment processing targeted at Small and Medium financial Institutions.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Application Administrator (DevOps / SRE)

Job Opening ID: 292
Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time 

Job Description

• Log management: Ensure critical logs are visualized, with efficient aggregation and proper archiving to blob storage.
• CI/CD & Pipeline Management: Ensure smooth automation, testing, and deployment cycles, and ensure the continuous improvement of system monitoring tools and processes.
• Application Support: Provide second-level application support and troubleshooting for users.
• Service Uptime: Ensure prompt incident detection, logging, and recovery, ensuring minimal service disruption.
• Automation: Automate repetitive tasks and manual processes, to enable efficiency of task completion.
• Disaster Recovery: Maintain and improve disaster recovery plans to ensure business continuity during unforeseen situations.
• Performance Monitoring: Monitor application performance and ensure optimal user experience.
• System Health: Create and manage health checks for services and systems and monitor and ensure the availability of third-party services is integrated into the system.
• Documentation: Ensure proper documentation of system configurations and changes.
• Collaboration & Cross-Functional Sync: Collaborate with other teams to improve crossfunctional processes and communication.
• Alerting & Visualization: Implement proactive alerting processes for critical infrastructure and system-related issues.
• Change Management: Implement a robust version control and change management process.
• Incident Management: Provide timely incident reports to the relevant stakeholders for decision-making purposes.
• Operational Excellence: Evaluate and integrate new tools or services that improve operational efficiency.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or other highly technical, scientific discipline with at least 2 years' experience as a Site Reliability Engineer, DevOps Engineer, and/or Application Administrator.
• Ability to program with one or more high level languages, such as Python, Java, C/C++, Ruby, and JavaScript.
• Experience with distributed storage technologies like NFS, HDFS, Ceph, S3 as well as dynamic resource management frameworks (Mesos, Kubernetes, Yarn).
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps) and version control systems.
• Experience with cloud computing technologies such as AWS, Azure and GCP, and experience with basic database management, Linux and Windows Server OS.
• Proficiency in scripting/automation (Python, Bash, or similar) and familiarity with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience with monitoring tools such as AWS CloudWatch, Grafana, ELK, New Relic and with 24/7 shift-based structures.
• A proactive approach to spotting problems, areas for improvement, and performance bottlenecks.
• An analytical/problem solving mindset, with good communication and collaboration skills, and experience in automation, system reliability, and continuous improvement.
• Good knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and modern infrastructure practices, with relevant certifications in any of the platforms.

Application Closing Date
31st May, 2026.