Lead DevOps Engineer at Standard Focus Ltd

Standard Focus Outsourcing Ltd is a contact center with branches throughout the globe embarked on a strong growth curve in Africa. We have built a strong, dynamic client base built upon providing exceptional customer service and client focus to the Gaming Industry under Asian Betting.

GENERAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

• Stay abreast of industry trends and best practices. Conduct research, tests, and execute new techniques which could be reused and applied to the software development cycle.


• Responsible for building, testing and maintaining the infrastructure and tools to allow for the speedy development , release and support of software in production


• Accountable for designing, building, and optimizing automation systems that help to execute business web and data infrastructure platforms.


• Involved in creating technology infrastructure, automation tools, and maintaining configuration management.


• Accountable for conducting training sessions to the juniors in the team, and other groups regarding how to build processes wherein the dependencies are showcased.


• Understanding the needs of stakeholders and conveying this to developers


• Working on ways to automate and improve development , release and support processes for software


• Ensuring that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats


• Identifying technical problems and developing updates and ‘fixes’


• Working with software developers to ensure that development follows established processes and works as intended


• Continuously enhance monitoring and alerting and focus on symptoms and not on outages


• Participate in post incident reviews, document findings and automate self healing jobs to reduce MTTR

JOB QUALIFICATIONS

• Should possess at least 5 years of work experience as a DevOps Engineer.


• Ample knowledge and experience in system automation, deployment, and implementation.


• Experience with agile planning, deployment, integration, test/validation, and configuration custom software across multiple DevOps tooling platforms


• Experienced in using Linux, Jenkins, and ample experience in configuring and automating the monitoring tools.


• Possess experience in the software development process and tools and languages like SaaS, Python, Java, Shell scripting, Python, Ruby, Go, MySQL and Git.


• Demonstrate knowledge in handling distributed data systems ELK, Grafana, application performance monitoring and packet trace analysis tools (e.g. wireshark)


• Familiar with the Linux Shell for administration and troubleshooting


• Familiar with the usage of configuration management systems like Chef, Ansible, Puppet


• Have experience with Nginx, HAProxy, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, or similar technologies Hunting mentality for system uptime and performance – explore edge cases, failure modes, behaviors, specific implementations.


• At least 8 years of experience in IT Infrastructure or software development


• BA/BS in Computer Science, Engineering or related technology field

PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES

• Strong problem-solving skills, critical thinking, excellent analytical ability, strong judgment and the ability to deliver high performance and high levels of customer satisfaction


• Must be able to work under extreme pressure with strong operational background


• Very high work ethics and personal integrity

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