Cloud Infrastructure Engineer at Unified Payments Services Limited

Unified Payment Services Limited is a group of companies with services including Banking, Payment Scheme, Financial Technology, Digital Commerce, Value Added Service, Payment Solutions, Software Solutions, etc. Unified Payments is a principal member or licensed acquirer of American Express, Mastercard, Visa and UnionPay; and has been instrumental in building the infrastructure that supports Nigeria’s modern payments ecosystem.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Objectives

• The Cloud Infrastructure Engineer designs, implements, and maintains the cloud-based infrastructure that supports an organization's computing needs.
• This role involves working with cloud platforms (like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud), deploying scalable and secure infrastructure, and ensuring high availability and performance.
• Ensure the integrity of the network and security infrastructure of the company.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Design and implement cloud architecture to meet business and technical requirements, ensuring scalability, security, and cost-effectiveness.
• Use orchestration tools like Kubernetes to automate containerized application deployment and management on the cloud.
• Implement cloud security best practices, such as identity and access management (IAM), encryption, firewalls, and monitoring for compliance with security policies.
• Provide technical support to development teams in deploying, managing, and scaling cloud-based applications.
• Collaborate with developers and IT teams to plan, deploy, and manage cloud resources such as virtual machines, networks, and storage.
• Develop and implement automation scripts using tools such as Terraform for efficient deployment and management of cloud resources.
• Conduct regular security assessments and vulnerability testing to identify and mitigate risks within the cloud infrastructure.
• Work closely with software developers and other stakeholders to integrate infrastructure with applications and service

Requirements

• Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or related fields
• Experience: Minimum of 5 years of experience as a system administrator, network engineer, Devops engineer, cloud engineer, or a similar role in a security operations environment.

General Experience:
Technical Skills:

• Expertise in setting up and managing EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances, S3 (Simple Storage Service) for data storage, VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) for networking, RDS (Relational Database Service), and other core services.
• Expertise in writing configuration files, managing state files, and using Terraform modules for reusability across environments.
• Experience in creating, deploying, and managing containerized applications. This includes writing Dockerfiles, working with container registries like Docker Hub, and managing container images.
• Proficiency in Python, Bash or Powershell for automating cloud infrastructure tasks.
• Knowledge of Jenkins for continuous integration/continuous delivery pipelines, enabling the automation of code deployments to cloud environments, is required.
• Proficiency with RDS (AWS), Azure SQL Database, Cloud SQL (GCP), and NoSQL databases like DynamoDB (AWS), CosmosDB (Azure), and Firestore (GCP) for managing cloud-based databases.
• Proficiency in orchestrating containerized applications using Kubernetes, including deploying, scaling, and managing clusters.

Application Closing Date
22nd May, 2026.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: mercy.joseph@up-ng.com using the Job Title as the subject of the mail.