Hybrid DevOps Engineer

at Kuda

• Job title: DevOps Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Ansible, AWS, Azure, Cyber Security, ElasticSearch, Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, Linux, Terraform
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Lagos, Nigeria

About the role

• DevOps Engineer at Kuda, a financial services app for Africans, implementing automation and DevOps processes. Collaborating on system performance, security, and CI/CD pipeline tasks.

Responsibilities

• Kuda is a money app for Africans on a mission to make financial services accessible, affordable and rewarding for every African on the planet.**
• We’re a tribe of passionate and diverse people who dreamed of building an inclusive money app that Africans would love so it’s only right that we ended up with the name ‘Kuda’ which means ‘love’ in Shona, a language spoken in the southern part of Africa.**We’re giving Africans around the world a better alternative to traditional finance by delivering money transfers, smart budgeting and instant access to credit through digital devices.**
• We’ve raised over $90 million from some of the world's most respected institutional investors, and we’re rolling out our game-changing services globally from our offices in Nigeria, South Africa, and the UK.
• **Roles and responsibilities**
• Implement various testing and automation tools, and commission IT infrastructure
• Provision, Configure, & De-Provision Environments via Automation
• Define and set development, test, release, update, and support processes for DevOps operation
• Apply troubleshooting techniques and advise on fixing code bugs
• Ensure developers adheres to defined DevOps processes and update or create new processes to improve efficiency and effectiveness
• Develop appropriate metrics to demonstrate system performance and agility using appropriate monitoring tools to improve operational efficiency.
• Identify and deploy cybersecurity measures by continuously performing vulnerability assessment and risk management
• Recognize and adopt best practices in documentation, testing, security, operations and support at scale and efficient use of resources.
• Perform incidence management and root cause analysis
• Select and deploy appropriate CI/CD tools
• Strive for continuous improvement and build continuous integration, continuous development, and constant deployment pipeline (CI/CD Pipeline)
• Understand teams’ requirements and project KPIs

Requirements

• 3+ years of industry experience in a similar role
• Bachelors or higher in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent experience
• Experience with CI/CD Platforms (Azure DevOps is a Plus)
• Strong exposure working with at least one of GCP, AWS & Microsoft Azure (preferably Azure & AWS)
• Solid experience with ElasticSearch, Datadog, Sentry
• Good understanding of technologies like Ansible, Terraform etc
• Experience with Kubernetes orchestration and management
• Exposure maintaining and support monitoring and alerting systems
• Working experience supporting and troubleshooting relational databases and distributed platform
• Working knowledge of monitoring and event management tool Implementations
• Basic system administration and Linux skills
• **Personal Attributes**
• Willing to embrace and enrich Kuda culture of empathy, teamwork and passion
• Have a strong desire for learning and growth
• Have a sense of ownership and pride in your performance and its impact on the company’s success
• Are a critical thinker and possess problem-solving skills
• Have good time-management skills
• Have great interpersonal and communication skills
• Can take the initiative and adapt to a fast-paced work environment

Benefits

• **Why join Kuda?**
• At Kuda, our people are the heart of our business, so we prioritize your welfare. We offer a wide range of competitive benefits in areas including but not limited to:
• 💜A great and upbeat work environment populated by a multinational team
• 👴Pension
• 📈Career development & growth
• 😁Competitive annual leave plus bank holidays
• 🎁Competitive paid time off (Parental, Moving day, Birthday, Study leave etc)
• 💯Group life insurance
• 💖Medical insurance
• 🎁Well-fare package (Wedding, Compassionate and etc)
• ✅Perkbox
• 🏃‍♀️Goalr - employee wellness app
• 🥇Award winning L&D training
• 💒 We are advocates of work-life balance, working in a hybrid in office schedule