Senior DevOps Engineer at Sparkle Nigeria

Job Title: Senior DevOps Engineer

About the Role

• We are looking for a DevOps Engineer who understands the DevOps culture and practices; and can be a champion for this within the organization.
• The DevOps Engineer believes that building great software is more than just delivering working code, that other aspects such as reusability, testability, maintainability, security, and performance are just as important.
• The ideal candidate can think long-term incremental evolution, in sync with the industry practices and innovation.

Responsibilities
What you will be doing:

• Management of internal infrastructure
• Promote infrastructure best practices like security, release management, monitoring
• Design infrastructure that is resilient, secure and highly available
• Facilitate the building and releasing of features by the Technology team
• Take part in building a secure and highly available platform
• Automate common operations on critical systems in a safe and reliable manner
• Build tools and processes that increase the productivity of the Technology team and ensure an efficient release pipeline
• Support and collaborate with other Developers building on top of the platform
• Share responsibility for strategically scaling Sparkle’s internal systems
• Bring vision to the team in the form of new technology recommendations, ideas and approaches

Requirements
Do Apply If you have:

• At least 5 years of software development experience
• Solid foundation in Linux administration and troubleshooting
• Experience with system scripting languages like Bash, Python or Golang
• Experience with Docker and container orchestration tools like Azure Kubernetes, ECS, Docker Swarm
• Deeply familiar with concepts like DevOps and Continuous Delivery
• Experience with working with tools like Terraforms, Ansible, Chef, Puppet
• Experience with at least one major cloud provider
• Strong understanding of computer science principles
• Experience working in an agile environment (standups, sprint planning, retrospectives, etc)
• Solid written and verbal communication
• Experience with system automation
• Experience with distributed systems

This role isn’t for you if:

• You’re not open to the pressures of building at a startup – For this role, we need someone who’s a self-starter and extremely passionate about innovating and building new products in a fast paced – high pressured environment.

Application Instructions:

The application deadline is Not Specified. Therefore, qualified and interested candidates can “CLICK HERE TO SUBMIT APPLICATION.” It is important to visit the official website (link found below) for detailed information on how to apply successfully for this vacancy.

Official Job Website: https://sparkle.ng/careers/