Senior DeVops Engineer in a Leading Technology-powered Company

Ascentech Services Limited – Our client, a leading Technology-powered company operating in the Digital Payments space of the Technology industry, is currently looking to hire a qualified candidate to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior DeVops Engineer

Location: Lagos

Job Summary

• The DevOps Engineer will support new and existing client projects while contributing towards ongoing product innovation

Duties / Responsibilities

• Assist with support and development of infrastructure and security tools.
• Build and manage automated testing and validation for both software and system configuration
• Build and manage automation pipelines for operational workflows.
• Build and manage automation inside configuration management tools.
• Assist with delivering highly secure and efficient solutions within comprehensive compliance regulations including ISO27100, HIPAA, PCI DSS, etc.)
• Assist in integrating diverse technologies in multiple environments to provide monitoring, alerting, and reporting of performance and costs.
• Manage work in an agile operations framework, balancing sprint-based work with daily operational needs.
• Assist in troubleshooting and resolving system outages or performance impact, and communicate findings for ongoing improvement
• Work directly with the development team to test system integrity
• Test implemented designs
• Consult with peers for feedback during testing stages
• Handle code deployments in all environments
• Monitor metrics and develop ways to improve
• Provide technical guidance and educate team members and co-workers on development and operations
• Brainstorm for new ideas and ways to improvement development delivery
• Build, maintain, and monitor configuration standards
• Maintain day-to-day management and administration of projects
• Document and design various processes; update existing processes
• Improve infrastructure development and application development
• Follow all best practices and procedures as established by company

Job Essentials – Education / Experience / General Requirements

• HND / B.Sc. in Information Technology / Computer Science / Systems Engineering / Electrical & Electronics Engineering / Applied Physics or a related discipline
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Relevant certification such as ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library),
• A minimum of Extensive experience as a DevOps Engineer on AWS
• Experience managing code repositories, build orchestrations, using Github, Jenkins
• Experience working with AWS services such API gateway, EKS, Cloudfornt Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka, AWS WAF, Database Migration service
• Experience designing, implementing, and monitoring log collection with tools such as Guard duty and CloudWatch
• Experience creating dashboards and configuring alerts with tools like CloudWatch, JIRA, and Slack
• Experience with tools like Zabbix, Prometheus, an ELK stack
• Experience with infrastructure as code tools like terraform, packer and AWS cloud formation
• Proven scripting experience with experience in multiple scripting languages: Python, PowerShell, Bash, PHP, Javascript, etc
• Experience with building deployment pipelines using Jenkins
• Must have experience with Linux infrastructures, database SQL (PostgreSQL and MySQL),
• Experience with configuration management tools such chef, ansible, puppet

Deadline: 31st July, 2020.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: cv@ascentech.com.ng stating the Position applied for in the mail subject line.

Note: Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.