Junior DevOps Engineer (Remote) at Bpay Limited

Bpay Limited is a dynamic start-up fintech company, committed to delivering innovative cross-border solutions and payment services in Nigeria and across Africa. We value talent that’s ready to support our growth and help create a productive and positive work environment.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Junior DevOps Engineer

Location: Lagos ( Remote / Hybride)
Employment Type: Full-Time
Department: Technology

Job Summary

• We are looking for a talented Junior DevOps Engineer with good knowledge and experience in cloud infrastructure, particularly in Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• This role is perfect for a candidate ready to take on exciting projects, collaborate with senior engineers, and grow within a dynamic team.
• The ideal candidate should have a strong technical foundation, experience in software development, and hands-on experience with AWS infrastructure.
• You will be responsible for contributing to cloud-based projects, developing scalable applications, and supporting our DevOps practices.
• As a DevOps engineer, your responsibilities encompass a wide range of tasks aimed at improving collaboration, automation, and efficiency between software development (Dev) and IT operations (Ops) teams. Here's a detailed breakdown of what those responsibilities typically entail.

Main Responsibilities
Infrastructure Automation:

• Implement continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines to automate the deployment of code to various environments (development, testing, staging, production).
• Design, implement, and manage containerization and orchestration solutions like Docker and Kubernetes to streamline application deployment and scaling.

Configuration Management:

• Manage configuration drift by ensuring consistency in configurations across different environments.
• Monitor configuration changes and enforce compliance with organizational policies and security standards.

Monitoring and Logging:

• Set up monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Nagios, or ELK stack to monitor system performance, application health, and resource utilization.
• Establish logging mechanisms to collect and analyze logs from various components of the infrastructure and applications.
• Implement alerts and notifications to proactively detect and respond to issues before they impact the users..

Continuous Improvement:

• Identify bottlenecks and inefficiencies in the development and deployment process and propose solutions for optimization.
• Conduct post-incident reviews (PIRs) and retrospectives to analyze the root cause of outages or incidents and implement preventive measures.

Scalability and Performance:

• Design scalable and resilient architectures that can handle the growing demands of the application and user base.
• Perform capacity planning and resource optimization to ensure optimal performance and cost-efficiency.
• Conduct load testing and performance tuning to identify and mitigate performance bottlenecks.

Disaster Recovery and High Availability:

• Develop and maintain disaster recovery (DR) plans and procedures to minimize downtime in case of system failures or disasters.
• Implement high availability (HA) solutions such as clustering, load balancing, and failover mechanisms to ensure uptime and reliability.
• Test DR and HA mechanisms regularly to validate their effectiveness and readiness.

Basic Requirements

• Experience Level: 2-5 Years
• Automation Tools: Experience with infrastructure automation tools like Terraform, Ansible, or Puppet is crucial for automating deployment and configuration management tasks.
• CI/CD Tools: Familiarity with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or CircleCI for automating the build, test, and deployment processes.
• Containerization and Orchestration: Knowledge of containerization technologies like Docker and container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes is highly desirable.
• Cloud Platforms: Understanding of cloud computing platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for deploying and managing cloud-based infrastructure.

Application Closing Date
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