Graduate DevOps Engineer at Terragon Group

Terragon Group - We pride ourselves as a new Media business focused on Africa. We have built a strong competence across the new media ecosystem comprising mobile, online and content. Within digital we understand the interplay between content and platform and we have business verticals that deliver on both components of the digital world.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: DevOps Engineer

Location: Lagos

Responsibilities

• Participate in the processes of strategic project-planning meetings.
• Providing their guidance and expertise on system options, risk, impact and costs vs. benefits.
• Create and share their operational requirements and development forecasts to allow for timely and accurate planning of projects.
• Coordinate work with other software development and infrastructure teams to incorporate product components in the final product
• Responsible for developing and building IT solutions.
• Install and configure solutions, implement reusable components, translate technical requirements, assist with all stages of test data.
• Develop interface stubs and simulators and perform script maintenance and updates.
• Build, release and configuration management of production systems
• Holds regular status meetings with technology team and setting timelines for projects
• Build automated deployments through the use of configuration management technology.
• Deploy new modules and upgrades and complete fixes within the production and staging environments.
• Make modules ready for production, which entails moving them according to specific procedures and documenting knowledge transfer.
• Deploying, automating, maintaining and managing AWS cloud based production system.
• Ensure the availability, performance, scalability and security of staging and production systems
• Ensure routine application maintenance via strategy-building techniques.
• Create requirements and procedures for implementing routine maintenance.
• Troubleshooting existing information systems for errors and resolving those errors
• Evaluate existing applications and platforms.
• Give recommendations for enhancing performance via gap analysis, identifying the most practical alternative solutions and assisting with modifications.

Qualification, Skills & Knowledge

• Bachelor’s Degree or in Engineering or equivalent
• At least, 1 year of experience in managing Linux based infrastructure
• Minimum of 1year of hands-on experience at least in one scripting language (Python & NodeJS preferably)
• 1 year of hands-on experience with databases including MySQL, Mongo & Elastic search
• Knowledge of Java/JVM based languages
• Strong scripting (e.g. Python) and automation skills
• Windows and Linux system administration.
• AWS: 2+ years’ experience with using a broad range of AWS technologies (e.g. EC2, RDS, ELB, EBD, S3, VPC, Glacier, IAM, CloudWatch, KMS) to develop and maintain an Amazon AWS based cloud solution, with an emphasis on best practice cloud security
• OO Programming Skills: Strong OO Programming skills (Java or C#).
• DB Skills: Basic DB administration experience (Oracle, SQL Server).
• Agile Methodologies: Experience with Agile software development, project management methodologies.
• Version Control: Experience administrating version control systems such as SVN.
• Networking: Understanding network topologies and common network protocols and services (DNS, HTTP(S), SSH, FTP, SMTP)

Application Closing Date
15th February, 2018.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should forward their CV's to: careers@terragonltd.com using the Job Title as the subject of the email.

Note: Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.