Senior DevOps Engineer Job at Prospa Technology Limited

We are backed by Y Combinator, and some of the most well respected and prolific investors, builders and operators in the US, Africa and Europe like Immad Akund (CEO @ mercury.com), Microtraction and many others.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: Senior DevOps Engineer

Job Location: Lagos, Nigeria

Description

• We're looking for a winner who shares our vision. You'll be joining Prospa because you genuinely believe the mission to empower African Entrepreneurs is important and exciting.
• You demand the best from yourself and make your teammates better. You celebrate success but never settle, you execute at speed while maintaining quality. You are humble and courageous.
• You want to work with a community of people where you can learn fast, grow rapidly and be recognized for your work.
• At Prospa we don't believe in micro-management, everyone is committed to the success both personally and professionally. We give you the autonomy and ownership to solve problems and deliver.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and enhance cloud architecture for optimal performance, security, and usability.
• Implement, maintain, monitor, and support cloud infrastructure.
• Collect and review business and operations requirements to improve overall user experience.
• Collaborate with multiple vendors to create scalable cloud infrastructure and security solutions.
• Work with cross-functional teams to conceptualize, develop, and release software versions.
• Identify areas for operational optimization based on market gaps and technological advancements.
• Develop and maintain service quality monitoring and systems management solutions.
• Design procedures for system and network troubleshooting and maintenance.
• Investigate and resolve technical issues by deploying updates and fixes, and provide level 2 support.
• Schedule and deploy releases, fixes, patches, and updates as needed.
• Ensure that our environments are secure and protected against security breaches, attacks, and other vulnerabilities.
• Document and maintain configuration management and environment settings.
• Suggest alterations to release workflow to improve efficiency, quality, and success.
• Implement automation tools and frameworks for automatic code deployment (CI/CD).
• Implement automated backup/restore, failover, and load balancing solutions over the cloud.

Skills and Qualifications

• Solid understanding of DevOps principles, practices, and Agile Scrum development disciplines.
• Experience with all phases of the software product life cycle, from conception to release and end-of-life.
• Knowledge of systems and platforms security features and implementing security disciplines.
• Proven familiarity with infrastructure security and code security, source protection methods.
• Demonstrated experience using scripting languages such as Perl, Python, and JavaScript.
• Familiarity with Amazon AWS cloud infrastructure, products and its DevOps dashboard console, as well as AWS CloudWatch, Sentry, and SQL database management.
• Strong system administration and scripting skills for Linux infrastructure.
• Experience with version control, release management, and deployment tools such as GitHub/Bit bucket, CI/CD.
• Working experience of Terraform on Infrastructure As Code principle, Helm Charts for deployments.

Other Desirable Skills and Qualifications:

• Scripting Languages: Golang, Python, Java, JavaScript, Perl.
• Amazon Web Services: IAM, EC2, VPC, ELB, ALB, Autoscaling, Lambda.
• Amazon Web Managed Products: EC2, ECS, ECR, SES, Elasticache, RDS, Redshift.
• Infrastructure-As-Code: Terraform (Mandatory).
• Configuration Management: Ansible, Jenkins, Terraform.
• Version Control and Code Storage Platforms: GitHub, BitBucket.
• Containerizing & Clustering: Compose, Docker, Dockerfiles, ECS, Helm, Kubernetes, Nginx, Vagrant.
• CI/CD Implementation: AppVeyor, Circle CI, Drone, GitLab, Jenkins, Mule, Spinnaker, TravisCI.
• Networking Concepts: Firewalls, NAT, Port

Benefits
Here are Just Some Of Our Prospa Perks:

• Competitive Salary
• Medical cover
• Paid time off (leave days)
• Work tools
• We invest in our employees through career development & opportunities