Company Info
Asante Financial Services Group is a high impact digital financial services company primarily focused on Micro, Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (MSMEs) and consumers in Sub-Saharan Africa. Incorporated in March 2016 in Mauritius, initially as a subsidiary of Atlas Mara LLC, Asante Financial Services Group has grown exponentially operating in Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda and Nigeria.
Title: DevOps Engineer
Location: Lagos
Job Type: Full Time
Job Summary
- The DevOps Engineer will be involved in various stages of each product’s lifespan and should remain well informed of technological advancements to promote operational and technical efficiency and quality.
- Ultimately, a strong DevOps engineer who can demonstrate excellent leading and team collaboration skills.
Key Responsibilities
- Defining and improving the cloud architecture for performance, security and usability.
- Implementing, maintaining, monitoring and supporting the cloud and on-premises infrastructure.
- Collecting and reviewing business and operations requirements to enhance overall experience.
- Working with multiple vendors on scalable cloud infrastructure and security solutions.
- Collaborate with all teams to conceptualize, develop, and release software versions.
- Scheduling and Deploying releases, fixes, patches and updates, as required and planned.
- Securing our environments to prevent security breaches, attacks and other vulnerabilities.
- Documenting and maintaining the configuration management and environment settings.
- Suggesting alterations to release workflow in order to improve efficiency, quality and success.
- Bringing ideas for ops optimization based on gaps in the market and technological advancements.
- Providing and maintaining the service quality monitoring and systems management solutions.
- Designing procedures for system and network troubleshooting and maintenance.
- Investigating and resolving technical issues by deploying updates and fixes, provide Level2 support.
- Implementing automation tools and frameworks for automatic code deployment (CI/CD).
- Implementing of automated backup/ restore/ failover/ load balancing solutions over cloud.
Skills and Qualifications
- Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field.
- Solid understanding of DevOps principles and practices and Agile Scrum development disciplines.
- Prior experience as a DevOps engineer, Cloud/Infrastructure Manager
- Prior experience at all phases of the software product life cycle, from conception to release and also end of life of the software products
- Familiarity with Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure, products, their DevOps dashboard console, AWS CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, Sentry, SQL databases management.
- System administration and scripting for Linux infrastructure.
- Experience with Version Control, Release Management and Deployment (GitHub, CI/CD) tools.
- Knowledge of systems and platforms security features, implementing security disciplines.
- Good problem-solving, troubleshooting skills and attention to detail
- Experience using an array of automation tools and environment management tools.
- Proven familiarity with infrastructure security and code security, source protection methods.
- Demonstrated experience using scripting languages including Perl, Python, JavaScript and Java.
- Strong decision-making and collaborative capabilities, team leadership and collaboration.
- Business-oriented with the ability to receive and use constructive criticism.
Experience of the following technologies and concepts is a plus (Optional):
- Scripting Languages: Golang, Python, Java, JavaScript, Perl, Ruby
- Amazon Web Services: IAM, EC2, VPC, ELB, ALB, Autoscaling, Lambda
- Amazon Web Managed Products: EC2, ECS, ECR, SES, Elasticache, RDS, Redshift.
- Infrastructure-As-A-Code: Ansible, Azure, CFEngine, Chef, Cloudformation, Docker, Juju, NixOS, Puppet, (R)ex, SaltStack, Sensu, Terraform, Vagrant
- Configuration Management: Ansible, Chef, Cloudformation, Pipeline, Jenkins, SaltStack, Terraform.
- Version control and code storage platforms: GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket
- Containerising & 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, Subnetting, VPC, VPNs, Dymanic IP/DNS.
- Open Source Relational Database: Cassandra, CouchDB, MariaDB, MongoDB, MySQL, MS SQL, Neo4j, PostgreSQL, RDBMS, Redis, RethinkDB, SQLite, Timescale.
Our Offer
- Individual career development and growth plan.
- Wide range of technological and soft skills trainings and workshops.
- Friendly and cooperative team working environment.
- Competitive compensation depending on experience and skillset
- Company medical insurance.
- Company team building activities.
- Ergonomical office working place, convenient geographical location of the office
Deadline: Not Specified.
How to Apply: Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: [email protected] using “DevOps Engineer” as the subject of the mail.