Senior DevOps / GitOps Engineer at Max.ng

MAX is on a mission to fix Africa’s notorious last-mile delivery and online-retail problems by using mobile and web platforms to connect consumers, retail businesses and independent drivers in real-time. We are eliminating all logistics and technology barriers that have historically prevented retail businesses in Africa from realizing their full potential.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior DevOps / GitOps Engineer

Location: Lekki, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Description

• As a Senior DevOps/GitOps Engineer, your main responsibilities include designing system architecture, defining the roadmap, and building, scaling, and monitoring our complex applications to enhance the availability of our container orchestration cluster.
• The ideal candidate will be proficient in Kubernetes and other container orchestration tools, as well as in logging and monitoring systems for these platforms.

Responsibilities
What you'll do:

• Architecting and deploying optimal solutions for one or more projects as part of the delivery team, ensuring they align with project specifications.
• Providing technology consultation, assisting in defining project scope and work sizing to ensure effective project execution.
• Contributing to competency development to ensure deployment of best-fit, high-quality technical solutions, and maintaining compliance with company guidelines, policies, and norms.
• Designing, developing, and implementing comprehensive end-to-end CI/CD pipelines to facilitate seamless integration and delivery, aligning with our clients’ and internal product teams' needs for next-generation solutions.
• Establishing and enforcing cloud computing best practices to maintain a secure, efficient, and scalable environment.
• Collaborating closely with cross-functional teams, including software engineers, data scientists, machine learning engineers, and product developers, to ensure successful project outcomes and customer satisfaction.
• Staying abreast of the latest cloud technologies and industry trends to drive innovation and provide cutting-edge solutions.

You should Have

• Minimum of 5 years of experience.
• Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or a related field.
• Required hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools, specifically AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK).
• Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes is necessary.
• Knowledge of CI/CD tools such as GitHub Action and ArgoCD for continuous delivery to ensure reliable and efficient release cycles.
• Strong proficiency required in a range of AWS services, including but not limited to VPC/subnets, IAM, ECR, ECS, EKS, Cert Mgr, ALB, Fargate, Lambda, S3, SQS, RDS, DynamoDB.
• Strong proficiency with monitoring tools such as Cloudwatch, Fluentbit, Prometheus & Grafana Stack.
• Must have proficiency in scripting languages, Python or Go, for developing automation scripts and deployment pipelines.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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