DevOps Engineer Job at Lori Nigeria

Lori is a venture-backed, rapidly growing start-up that has built a cutting-edge, tech-driven, logistics services platform that seamlessly coordinates haulage across frontier markets. With a mission to reduce the cost of goods in frontier markets, Lori is tackling a massive issue; $180 billion is spent annually on haulage across Africa, and up to 75% of a product’s cost is due to logistics (compared to 6% in the US).

Lori was recognized as the fastest growing start-up in Africa and won Techcrunch’s Battlefield Africa. Our tech-enabled and operations-driven marketplace efficiently connects transport to cargo. The system brings transparency to the logistics industry and has significantly improved flexibility, reliability, and cost savings (upwards of 20%). Billions of dollars of cargo move through the Lori platform annually. 

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: DevOps Engineer

Job Location: Lagos (Remote)
Department: Engineering
Employment Type: Full-Time
Minimum Experience: Mid-level

Responsibilities

• Assist other engineering teams in maintaining of software in ensuring at least 99.99% availability of the platform.
• Maintain our code deployment and management infrastructure
• Help Define framework and tools to be used in management of code quality across the engineering organization.
• Partnering with engineering teams to automate & optimize service availability, scalability, performance, monitoring, and alerting.
• Monitor site reliability and participate in efforts to improve reliability and scalability
• Find and address software and systems performance concerns.

Skills and Qualifications

• At least 2 years experience working with server-side programming languages, preferably python.
• Experience with microservices.
• Deep knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of best practices in continuous delivery and continuous integration.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools and workflows, such as Git/Gitflow.
• Working knowledge of GraphQL will be an added advantage.
• Proven experience supporting a distributed architecture.
• Strong Familiarity with Azure & Amazon Web Services.
• Deep understanding of configuration management, automation, and infrastructure-as-code tools (for example, Ansible, Terraform, Salt, or Puppet).