DevOps Team Lead (FinTech / Cryptocurrency) at an American-Based Company - Black Pen Recruitment

Black Pen Recruitment - Our client is an American-based company that is expanding globally by being one of the first movers to bring cryptocurrency to Africa and the Middle East at large. Their mission is to make cryptocurrency/blockchain and other FinTech services more accessible, and affordable, than ever before. Our client’s vision strives to form a committed team of forward-thinkers who collectively create a supportive, welcoming and highly innovative environment for all.

They are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: DevOps Team Lead (FinTech / Cryptocurrency)

Location: Lagos
Job Type: Remote | Full-time
Industry: Financial Services

Responsibilities

• Establish trust with senior leaders and business by aligning your priorities with theirs, providing timely, accurate, and succinct status updates, and helping others when needed.
• Ensure application uptime and performance by implementing and using extensive metrics to identify issues before they impact our customers.
• Establish end-to-end monitoring and alerting on all critical aspects of the system to ensure SLAs are met as well as provide proactive notifications of possible issues for all systems.
• Participate in service capacity planning and demand forecasting, software performance analysis and system tuning.
• Identify underlying root causes and provide recommendations or solutions for long term permanent fixes to critical production issues. 
• Evaluate problems or opportunities, architect the right solutions, lead production implementations, and handle our critical services.

Requirements

• 2+ years of experience leading software developers or site reliability engineers building customer-facing software applications or site reliability tools.
• Experience with distributed, scalable microservice-based architectures. 
• In-depth knowledge of AWS architecture and services (Serverless, AWS Lambda, AWS API Gateway, DynamoDB, CloudFormation, MQTT, S3, Route 53, Github Actions, Cloudwatch). 
• In-depth understanding and working experience with CI/CD principles & practices.
• Solid grasp of performance monitoring methodologies and tools for AWS services.
• Extensive experience with Linux operating systems.
• Experience leading solutions and design discussions, communicating roadmaps, and mentoring others.
• Exposure to Agile / Scrum / Kanban development methodologies.
• Experience with large scale production environments and infrastructure.

Remuneration
Salary + Benefits.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.