DevOps Engineer at Arca Payments Company Limited

Arca Payments Company Limited was founded in 2016, with a clear vision to become Africa’s premier payment services platform, fostering Financial inclusion and innovation & actively shaping the future of Financial Services, throughout the region.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: DevOps Engineer

Location: Head Office, Lagos

Job Responsibilities

The job responsibilities are below listed but are not limited to these:

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

Requirements
Education Qualification:

Minimum of Bachelor’s degree / HND in Computer / System / Electrical / Electronic Engineering/ Applied physics / Computer Science or a related discipline.

Professional Qualification:

AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Relevant certification such as ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library),

Experience:

Minimum of 4 years cognate experience in financial payment technology.
Extensive experience as a DevOps engineer on AWS
Experience managing code repositories, build orchestrations, using Github, Jenkins
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, java script, 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.