DevOps Engineer at a FinTech Startup - Dunn and Braxton Limited

Dunn and Braxton Limited - Our client is a FinTech Startup providing innovative payment gateway solutions to service various businesses in Africa with its office in Lekki / Ajah Lagos, Nigeria.

They are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: DevOps Engineer

Location: Lekki, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Summary

• In this role, the DevOps Engineer will be responsible for using his/her technical skills to build amazingly exciting world-class products, seek to understand the business that your code supports and work to identify risks (in code, features, and design).
• This role will require constant communication with diverse internal and external stakeholders while embracing agile practices, constant yearning for new learnings on global FinTech trends and emerging technologies
• To be successful in this role, you must be comfortable practicing test-driven development because it produces high-quality, reliable, and more maintainable code. We deliver user value, solve problems, and ship code multiple times a day to improve our user experience.

Responsibilities

• Specification and documentation of the new project features
• Utilize various open-source technologies
• Use various tools to orchestrate solutions
• Build independent web-based tools, microservices, and solutions
• Write scripts and automation using Perl / Python / Groovy / Java / Bash
• Configure and manage data sources like MySQL, Mongo, Elasticsearch, Redis, Cassandra, Hadoop, etc.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree
• 3+ years of professional experience as a DevOps / System Engineer
• Fluent in Python and Python testing best practices
• Experience working in and advocating for agile environments
• Extensive experience working within AWS and with its managed products (EC2, ECS, ECR, R53, SES, ElastiCache, RDS, Redshift, etc)
• Strong experience working with automation tooling (Terraform, Ansible, etc)
• Strong experience with containers (Docker, Compose, ECS, Kubernetes)
• Strong experience with managed and self-hosted CI/CD tooling Jenkins and others like Travis, Drone, Mule, Spinnaker)
• Strong understanding of DNS, TCPDUMP, CDNS, SSL, Git, Firewalls and networking concepts (VPC, subnetting, VPNs, etc).
• Experience deploying microservice architecture, applications, and supporting services
• Experience working on high-traffic, international systems
• Familiar with software security best practices
• Understanding of monitoring tools (Pagerduty, CloudWatch, Datadog, Sentry, etc)
• Experience working within large-scale decoupled, service-oriented systems a plus
• Configuration Management experience with Ansible or similar (Chef, Puppet, Salt)
• Experience with Version Control Software (Git preferred)
• AWS Certifications: AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified Developer, AWS
• Certified SysOps Administrator, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
• Setup and management of a Kubernetes cluster, including writing Dockerfiles and Helm
• Continuous Integration setup and administration
• Release Engineering: deployment pipelines; continuous deployment
• Open-source Monitoring experience (Sensu preferred)
• Database administration of Mysql, Postgresql or similar
• Management of growing Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana stack
• Architecting highly available distributed systems.

Compensation
Competitive Base Pay+ Other Benefits.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.