Senior DeVops Engineer at Ascentech Services Limited

Ascentech Services Limited – Our client, a leading Technology-powered company operating in the Digital Payments space of the Technology industry, is currently looking to hire qualified candidate to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior DeVops Engineer

Location: Lagos

Job Summary

The DevOps Engineer will support new and existing client projects while contributing towards ongoing product innovation

Duties / Responsibilities

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

Job Essentials – Education / Experience / General Requirements

HND / B.Sc. in Information Technology / Computer Science / Systems Engineering / Electrical & Electronics Engineering / Applied Physics or a related discipline
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Relevant certification such as ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library),
A minimum of Extensive experience as a DevOps Engineer on AWS
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, Javascript, 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