DevOps Automation Engineer Job at Cavista

At Cavista, our mission is to empower organizations with the world’s best technology solutions. We ensure the highest level of client satisfaction through a global network of innovation, and our software solutions are custom-built to accommodate your domain and requirements.

Through world-class consultation, innovative IT solutions and personalized client services, Cavista increases operational efficiency for organizations of all sizes.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: DevOps Automation Engineer

Job Location: Nigeria
Schedule: Full-Time

Job Description

• Lead and mentor other engineers in the team for best practices while ensuring effective documentation of how the company's products and services are deployed, provisioned, configured, and supported. 
• Work closely with software engineering and customer-facing teams developing infrastructure and applications, with a focus on driving stability, reliability, scalability, operability, and automated fault recovery of services for company's products and services. 
• Document your processes and share knowledge. 
• Troubleshoot issues along with developers, providing systems level and architecture insight to the current issue. 
• Apply DevOps and SRE principles and technologies to support and improve software and infrastructure security across development, testing, and production environments. 
• Assist with planning and implementing migrations to cloud-based infrastructure. 
• Develop innovative ways to smartly measure, monitor & report application and infrastructure health. 
• Evaluate best practices/methodologies for provisioning, configuration management, monitoring to improve organization-wide visibility into how distributed systems interact and perform in production. 
• Ability to perform quick RCA of any complexity. 
• Wear many hats, while bringing the ability to learn and grasp a complete understanding of the software delivery and application support process. 

Qualifications

• Minimum of five (5) years of experience in the fields of SRE, DevOps or production engineering. 
• Strong Windows and Linux Scripting, Scripting languages (Bash, PowerShell, Python). 
• Experience with SRE and/or DevOps best practices.[MB1]  
• Strong customer focus and confident in making critical decisions independently in a fast paced and demanding environment. 
• Experience with git in a multi-contributor/team GitOps environment. 
• Networking experience –trouble shooting networking configuration issues in general. 
• Experience with system configuration software such as Salt, Puppet, Ansible (Salt preferred but not required). 
• Solid understanding of web protocols such as HTTP, TLS, HTTP/2. 
• Solid understanding of Nginx and HAProxy, or similar web proxies and load balancers. 
• Strong Monitoring and alerting experience (ELK, Grafana, Zabbix). 
• Experience with containerization and orchestration frameworks like Docker and Kubernetes is a plus. [MB2] 
• Experience supporting applications and services on Linux, with experience supporting Dot Net and IIS application in Windows Server a plus.[MB3]  
• Experience supporting microservice based SaaS applications is a plus. [MB4] 

Remuneration
We offer a competitive compensation package (DOE), benefits and growth opportunities for everyone who joins Cavista!

Application Process
Online Application:

• We want to know you better
• Share your basic details and upload your resume
• You will receive an email response with the next step
• Intro Video Interview
• You will receive a link from Mettl to complete a short video where you will answer questions to share your knowledge

Team Interview:

• We want you to learn about us
• Meet our team for your in-person interview(s). 
• Interview us as well

Programmers: Coding Assessment:

• Complete a coding assessment; share with us your method for problem solving.

Note: This is a full-time role and you can work from ANYWHERE.