We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Senior DevOps Engineer
Location: Lagos (On-site)
Job type: Full-time
Job Description
Why we’re hiring:
- Kwik is SAAS based with all its components sitting in the Cloud (AWS, GCP, Digital Ocean …). We are looking for a “Senior DevOps Engineer” to take an active part in our daily Platform Management.
- The DevOps Engineer will focus on managing a Jenkins based CI/CD pipeline for applications and infrastructure, where the testing feedback loop is as tight as possible, and infrastructure is treated as immutable and disposable.
- The DevOps Engineer will be working closely with Dev and Ops Contractor with the goal of ensuring that every environmental change starts with a commit to Bitbucket.
- The ideal candidate will be passionate about helping design and develop tools for a fully automated, cloud ready, highly resilient, and monitored environment.
Responsibilities
What you'll do:
- Building and maintaining microservice based application platforms
- Ensuring a smooth operation production and development environments and resolving issues, including, implementing effective monitoring and incident response strategies
- Show analytical, yet innovative mindset and the desire to challenge conventional thinking
- Collaborate closely with colleagues in creating modern web, mobile or server and cloud applications
- Show structured and methodical approach for solving complex problems
- Apply Scrum and agile practices in your daily work
- Share know-how in formal and informal settings (e.g. training courses, coaching, mentoring)
Requirements
Who you are:
- You should have a technical related Degree and/or equivalent professional qualification and sufficient practical experience, communicative and open-minded personality and be fluent in English (both written and oral).
As for technical experience, we require knowledge in the following areas:
- Strong DevOps mindset, understanding of principles and practices
- Experience in building pipelines and CI/CD workflows using tools like Jenkins,
- Experience with cloud platforms – AWS, GCP
- Solid knowledge of at least one scripting language
- Experience with infrastructure as code, containerization, virtualization, and configuration management
- Monitoring application and Platform performance
- Experience with collaboration in an international agile team
- Knowledge of modern application development languages is an advantage
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
- Works well with other teams in other areas – Dev/Ops/IT
- Proficient with Linux systems (CentOS, Debian)
- Works well with other teams in other areas – Dev/Ops/IT
- Experience in managing servers in Virtual Environment (AWS EC2, GCP VM)
- Remote management via SSH
- Install and configure software packages via RPM and source code
- Solid experience with Continuous Integration (CI) tools (Jenkins)
- Solid experience with Amazon Web Services (e.g.: ECRs, S3, Code Build)
- Working experience with containers Docker and Kubernetes