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Job Description
We are seeking a proactive and innovative DevOps Engineer dedicated to ensuring high availability of systems and cost-effectively optimizing our services to support Chowdeck’s growth and mission.
Responsibilities
- Implement strategies to ensure 24/7 availability and optimal performance of our systems and services.
- Ensure that our system architecture supports high availability and disaster recovery.
- Develop and maintain instrumentation, monitoring, and alerting systems to detect and address issues proactively.
- Perform root cause analysis and post-mortems for downtimes or production errors and implement fixes.
- Design, implement, and manage continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.
- Monitor and optimize cloud resources to ensure we’re always running a cost-effective infrastructure.
- Ensure our infrastructure and applications comply with the latest industry security standards and regulations
- Work closely with the product engineers to understand needs and provide guidance on solutions.
- Keep up-to-date documentation on our system architecture and DevOps practices.
Qualification
- have a firm grasp of running and scaling real-world applications on AWS using bare EC2 instances or Elastic Beanstalk.
- have expert knowledge in implementing and managing system and application-level telemetry, including logging, monitoring, and tracing systems.
- can instrument applications to capture insights into performance bottlenecks and runtime issues.
- have experience with tools like Datadog, AWS Cloudwatch, PagerDuty, or similar for in-depth monitoring and alerting.
- understand the fundamentals of CI/CD tools such as AWS CodePipeline, GitHub Actions, and Circle CI.
- have a firm handle on JavaScript/TypeScript to understand the language product engineers speak.
- are intellectually honest.
- are very intuitive and you always learn from your mistakes.
- love to solve complex issues even when the answers are not readily available.
- can communicate clearly and empathetically for both verbal and written engagements.
- can turn incomplete, conflicting, or ambiguous inputs into solid, manageable tasks and action plans.
Location: Lagos, Nigeria.
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