Job Title: Senior Engineering Specialist, Application Administration (DevOps/SRE)
Location: Lagos
Job Opening ID: 292
Employment Type: Full-time
Job Description
- Log management: Ensure critical logs are visualized, with efficient aggregation and proper archiving to blob storage.
- CI/CD & Pipeline Management: Ensure smooth automation, testing, and deployment cycles, and ensure the continuous improvement of system monitoring tools and processes.
- Application Support: Provide second-level application support and troubleshooting for users.
- Service Uptime: Ensure prompt incident detection, logging, and recovery, ensuring minimal service disruption.
- Automation: Automate repetitive tasks and manual processes to enable efficient task completion.
- Disaster Recovery: Maintain and improve disaster recovery plans to ensure business continuity during unforeseen situations.
- Performance Monitoring: Monitor application performance and ensure optimal user experience.
- System Health: Create and manage health checks for services and systems and monitor and ensure the availability of third-party services is integrated into the system.
- Documentation: Ensure proper documentation of system configurations and changes.
- Collaboration & Cross-Functional Sync: Collaborate with other teams to improve crossfunctional processes and communication.
- Alerting & Visualization: Implement proactive alerting processes for critical infrastructure and system-related issues.
- Change Management: Implement a robust version control and change management process.
- Incident Management: Provide timely incident reports to the relevant stakeholders for decision-making purposes.
- Operational Excellence: Evaluate and integrate new tools or services that improve operational efficiency.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or other highly technical, scientific discipline with at least 2 years' experience as a Site Reliability Engineer, DevOps Engineer, and/or Application Administrator.
- Ability to program with one or more high-level languages, such as Python, Java, C/C++, Ruby, and JavaScript.
- Experience with distributed storage technologies like NFS, HDFS, Ceph, S3, as well as dynamic resource management frameworks (Mesos, Kubernetes, Yarn).
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps) and version control systems.
- Experience with cloud computing technologies such as AWS, Azure, and GCP, and experience with basic database management, Linux, and Windows Server OS.
- Proficiency in scripting/automation (Python, Bash, or similar) and familiarity with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Experience with monitoring tools such as AWS CloudWatch, Grafana, ELK, New Relic, and with 24/7 shift-based structures.
- A proactive approach to spotting problems, areas for improvement, and performance bottlenecks.
- An analytical/problem solving mindset, with good communication and collaboration skills, and experience in automation, system reliability, and continuous improvement.
- Good knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and modern infrastructure practices, with relevant certifications in any of the platforms.
Benefits
- Very Competitive & Rewarding Pay.
- Flexible Work Mode (i.e., Remote Work Option).
- Paid Lunch.
- Lifelong Learning.
Application Closing Date
31st December, 2026.
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online