Lead DevOps Engineer at Kuda Bank Full Time

Job Title: Lead DevOps Engineer

Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Employment type: Full time
Category: Tech

The Role

• We are in search of a DevOps Engineer focused automation, deploying CI/CD tools and source control on AzureDevOp.

Other responsibilities include:

• Creating software deployment strategies that are essential for the successful deployment of any kind of software in the work environment.
• Collaboratively creating and updating the DevOps toolchain for continued relevance.
• Shared responsibility in the practice of continuous integration, continuous testing, continuous deployment and observability of deployed software solutions and the underlying infrastructures.
• Ownership of the practice of continuous delivery, configuration management, infrastructure as code and reliability engineering practice.
• Collaborate with stakeholders such as developers, software testers, DBAs, security specialists, product/project managers, etc on key initiatives.
• Enable developers’ efficiency and effectiveness through developer platforms, automation, etc.
• Coaching and mentoring other DevOps engineers.
• Keeping up to date with industry trends and best practices.

Requirements
Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or higher in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent experience
• 3+ years of industry experience
• Professional certifications are a plus

Experience:

• Have basic system administration and Linux skills. He/She should have practical knowledge of different build tools and CI/CD Platforms (Azure DevOps is a Plus)
• Have experience with at least one of GCP, AWS & Microsoft Azure (preferably Azure & AWS)
• Have experience with system automation, deployment, and implementation.
• Have experience with the DevOps practices such as CI/CD, continuous testing, observability, post-mortem, chaos engineering.
• Have experience with software development processes, tools and languages such as Python, .NET, Mobile Development, relational and NoSQL databases, scripting, and Git.
• Have experience with event-driven and distributed systems and the niche SaaS in the domain such as ElasticSearch, Redis, Kafka, etc
• Have experience with technologies such as Ansible, Terraform/Pulumi, Datadog, Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, etc
• Have experience with Kubernetes orchestration and management
• Have experience maintaining and support monitoring and alerting systems
• Have experience supporting and troubleshooting relational databases and distributed platform
• Have working knowledge of monitoring and event management tool Implementations

Personal Attributes:

• Willing to embrace and enrich Kuda culture of empathy, teamwork and passion
• Have a strong desire for learning and growth.
• Have a sense of ownership and pride in your performance and its impact on the company’s success
• Are a critical thinker and possess problem-solving skills
• Are a team player
• Have good time-management skills
• Have great interpersonal and communication skills
• Can take the initiative and adapt to a fast-paced work environment.

Benefits
Why join Kuda?

• At Kuda, our people are the heart of our business, so we prioritize your welfare. We offer a wide range of competitive benefits in areas including but not limited to:
  • Pension
  • Competitive annual leave plus bank holidays
  • Group life insurance
  • Health insurance
  • L&D training
  • We are advocates of work-life balance and offer a 3 day per week remote working option.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.