DevOps Software Engineer at Andela Nigeria

Andela is a network of technology leaders dedicated to advancing human potential. We help companies build high-performing distributed engineering teams by investing in Africa’s most talented software developers. Based in NYC, SF, Lagos, Nairobi, Rwanda and Kampala, Andela is catalyzing the growth of tech ecosystems across the African continent while solving the global technical talent shortage.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: DevOps Software Engineer

Locations: Accra – Ghana, Cairo – Egypt, Kampala – Uganda, Kigali – Rwanda, Lagos – Nigeria, Nairobi – Kenya

Where You’ll Work

Andela is a network of technology leaders dedicated to advancing human potential. We help companies build high-performing distributed engineering teams by investing in Africa’s most talented software engineers.
Based in NYC, SF, Kigali, Cairo, Lagos, Nairobi, Accra and Kampala, Andela is catalyzing the growth of tech ecosystems across the African continent while solving the global technical talent shortage.

What You’ll Do

Andela Software Engineers epitomize ownership. They take personal responsibility for Andela’s ability to continue to deliver value to our partners.

Specifically, you’ll:

Use your DevOps knowledge to delight our partners around the world;
Be responsible for the coding standards, conduct and deliverables of your fast-paced, distributed, teams, by proactively communicating and prioritizing effectively;
Act as a role model even in the most difficult and challenging situations, using constructive feedback, mentorship, and universal respect.
Andela Engineers are masters of consistent execution. They reliably deliver technical and professional value to our teams and our partners.

Responsibilities Include:

Performing duties to design, building, and maintaining systems, environments, and pipelines
Performing system orchestration through management tools, such as Cloudformation, Terraform, and Ansible
Designing, building, and deploying using third-party testing and CI/CD tools, such as Jenkins, Travis, or CircleCI
Contributing to developing and maintaining best practices for infrastructure as code, specifically with configuration management and environment orchestration
Utilizing appropriate third-party tools to monitor, test, deploy, and scale environments
Partnering with cross-functional team members to estimate, support, troubleshoot, plan, deliver, and maintain highly performant systems
Supporting business functions by understanding key metrics and impact to know how to prioritize and support objectives
Assisting in troubleshooting and resolving bugs as well as performance issues across all environments
Developing dashboards and reports to support engineers, product, and business partners to successfully deliver on and support their initiatives

Requirements

What makes you a great fit for this role:

3+ years of professional experience as a DevOps Engineer or Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
2+ years of writing software, preferably in Python
Excellent ability to problem-solve, debug, and understand pertinent performance metrics
Experience in designing, building, and working with Continuous Integration and Delivery (CI/CD) Pipelines
Proven expertise with at least one cloud hosting platform (ex: AWS, GCP, Azure) as well as its services, in relation to scaling, storage, management tools, and analytics
Comfort with agile methodologies and experience in estimation and time management
Hands-on experience with containerized infrastructure
Understanding of programming concepts such as structured code, object-oriented and multi-tiered development experience, and design patterns
Familiarity with distributed caching systems and core caching concepts
Familiarity with serverless concepts
A Bachelor’s or advanced degree in Computer Science, or related field.