Senior DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Design, deploy, and maintain highly available cloud and on-premise infrastructure.
• Own and optimize end-to-end CI/CD pipelines across services and environments.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and Ansible.
• Architect and manage Kubernetes clusters and containerized applications using Docker.
• Manage container networking, scaling, storage, and security.
• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Loki, or similar tools.
• Drive system reliability, uptime, performance optimization, and operational excellence.
• Manage networking, DNS, load balancing, reverse proxies, SSL/TLS, and API gateways.
• Implement DevSecOps best practices and secure infrastructure standards.
• Lead incident response, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and post-mortems.
• Ensure high availability, disaster recovery, backup, and failover systems.
• Collaborate with developers, QA, security, and IT teams to improve deployment standards.
• Mentor junior engineers and enforce DevOps engineering best practices.

Requirements:

• Strong hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with Terraform and Ansible.
• Strong Linux administration skills (Ubuntu, CentOS, AlmaLinux, RHEL).
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as Bitbucket Pipelines or GitLab CI.
• Strong scripting skills using Bash and Python.
• Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Loki, or similar observability tools.
• Strong understanding of networking, load balancing, DNS, VPNs, firewalls, and reverse proxies.
• Experience with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Experience managing NGINX and API gateways.
• Strong understanding of microservices and distributed systems.
• Experience with virtualization tools such as VMware or Proxmox.
• Strong troubleshooting and incident management capabilities.

Nice To Have:

• Experience with Kafka or RabbitMQ.
• Familiarity with Consul, Istio, or Linkerd.
• Exposure to Redis, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, or MySQL.
• Knowledge of SRE practices and compliance standards such as ISO27001 or PCI-DSS.
• Experience in high-availability and failover architecture.

Soft Skills:

• Strong ownership mentality and leadership ability.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving mindset.
• Ability to work effectively under pressure during critical incidents.

Remuneration: NGN 800,000-1.5Million Monthly