DevOps Engineer at VENTEN Co.

VENTEN Co. – We deliver Innovative Technology Consulting for businesses, with a focus on software engineering services, management consulting, and IT infrastructure implementation and management.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: DevOps Engineer

Location: Victoria Island, Lagos
Experience: Senior
Job Type: Full Time
Working Arrangement: Full time & Onsite

About the Role

We are looking for a DevOps Engineer who understands the DevOps culture and best practices, and can be 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.

Roles & Responsibilities

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 internal systems
Bring vision to the team in the form of new technology recommendations, ideas, and approaches

Education & Qualifications

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 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.