Site Reliability Engineer at Nomba (Formerly Kudi)

Nomba is a leading payments company with a mission to revolutionise the way businesses manage their financial transactions and affairs. We provide innovative, secure, and user-friendly solutions that enable businesses to streamline their payment processes, optimise their financial operations, and grow their businesses with confidence.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Site Reliability Engineer

Location: Lekki, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Summary

  • As a Site Reliability Engineer at Nomba, you will play a crucial role in bridging the gap between software development and IT operations, with a strong focus on solving IT operations problems using software engineering.
  • You will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining the infrastructure, tools, and processes required to support our development and deployment pipelines.
  • You will react in real time to production incidents and work to contain and resolve them as quickly as possible.
  • Your expertise in automation, cloud technologies, and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) will ensure that our software is delivered efficiently, reliably, and at scale.

About the Role

  • Implement and maintain highly available, scalable, and secure production systems, emphasising automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles.
  • Collaborate with software development teams to influence the architecture and design of applications for better scalability, reliability, and performance.
  • Develop and maintain monitoring, alerting, and logging solutions to proactively detect and resolve system issues.
  • Respond to incidents and outages, conducting root cause analysis, and implementing preventative measures to minimize future occurrences.
  • Participate in on-call rotations and provide timely response to critical incidents.
  • Continuously improve system performance through performance tuning, capacity planning, and load testing.
  • Implement security best practices, ensuring that systems are compliant with industry standards and regulations.
  • Automate routine operational tasks using scripting and programming languages.
  • Work with cross-functional teams to define and document operational procedures and runbooks.
  • Contribute to the improvement of the CI/CD pipelines to ensure seamless deployments.
  • Keep abreast of industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in SRE and cloud infrastructure management.

About You

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
  • Proven experience as a Site Reliability Engineer, DevOps Engineer, or a similar role managing large-scale, highly available production systems.
  • Solid experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP), including proficiency in provisioning and managing resources.
  • Strong understanding of Linux/Unix systems and command-line utilities.
  • Proficiency in at least one programming or scripting language (e.g., Python, Ruby, Bash, PowerShell).
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.
  • Knowledge of containerization and orchestration technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
  • Familiarity with monitoring tools and concepts (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack).
  • Understanding of networking protocols, load balancing, and firewalls.
  • Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills, with a focus on root cause analysis.
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams.

Nice to Have:

  • Relevant certifications in SRE, DevOps, or cloud technologies.
  • Experience with databases and data management (e.g., SQL, NoSQL, caching systems).
  • Knowledge of configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible, Puppet, Chef).
  • Understanding of Agile methodologies and experience in Agile/Scrum environments.
  • Familiarity with security practices and compliance frameworks.

 

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online


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