Software Engineer (DevOps) Job at Helium Health

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: Software Engineer (DevOps)

Job Location: Lagos
Work Type: Full Time

Job Description

• The DevOps Engineer will be responsible for designing, implementing and maintaining complex infrastructures in a high paced production environment.
• S/he must have experience in continuous integration, continuous deployment, application performance monitoring, and alerting systems.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product management, operations, quality and software engineers to deliver the right solution. 
• Provision, configure, and develop against remote infrastructure in AWS. 
• Working with, and supporting, the development team with application configuration of cloud-based infrastructure for deployment, monitoring and other automation
• Design and engineer the DevOps CICD tooling and platform roadmap and own the lifecycle of these platforms.
• Seamlessly integrate DevOps with infrastructure and automation orchestration platforms through established architectural patterns (e.g. APIs).
• Ensure all services are hardened and security best practices are followed during the automated CICD processes.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related discipline with at least 3 - 5 years’ professional experience in DevOps
• Containerisation and microservice build and deployment - Docker, Kubernetes
• Familiarity with scripting and programming languages such as Python, Elixir/PHP, Javascript or other similar languages
• Experience working with Agile teams
• Experience with Git, Jenkins, Docker, Ansible/Chef/Puppet or similar tools 
• Pride in readable, well-designed, well-tested software. 
• Experience with relational databases (PostGreSQL, MySQL) and key-value stores (Memcache, Redis) 
• Good oral and written communication skills 
• Building reusable code and libraries for future use 
• Experience with AWS and Azure
• Optimisation of the application for maximum speed and scalability 
• Experience incorporating best security practices to development approach.