Application Administrator Job at Appzone Limited

Appzone Limited - Our client, Qore, is a funded, pan-African Fintech that provides the technology and operating system that powers fully digital and automated Banks across the African continent, and on a mission towards digitizing and fully automating all economic activities in Africa.

They are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: Application Administrator

Job ID: 221
Job Location: Lagos

Responsibilities

• Measure and optimize system performance, with an eye toward pushing our capabilities forward, getting ahead of customer needs, and innovating to continually improve.
• Provide primary operational support and engineering for multiple large, distributed software applications.
• Responsible for change management by partnering with development teams to improve services through rigorous testing and release procedures.
• Participate in system design consulting, platform management, and capacity planning.
• Run the production environment by monitoring availability and taking a holistic view of system health.
• Automation or elimination of anything repetitive that's also cost-effective to automate or eliminate.
• Responsible for incident management which involves communication with stakeholders and provision of incident reports.

Requirements

• BSc in Computer Science or other highly technical, scientific discipline with at least 2 years' experience as an SRE / DevOps Engineer/Application Administrator.
• Ability to program (structured and OO) 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).
• Experience with cloud computing technologies such as AWS, Azure and GCP.
• Experience with basic database management, Linux and Windows Server OS.
• Experience with monitoring tools such as AWS CloudWatch, Grafana, ELK, New Relic.
• Experience with 24/7 shift-based structures.
  A proactive approach to spotting problems, areas for improvement, and performance bottlenecks.
• Behavioral competencies required: Attentiveness, Conscientiousness, Dependability, Proactiveness and an analytical/problem solving mindset.
• Certifications under any of the cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, GCP.

Benefits
Qore provides the rare opportunity to make history in the financial space for Africa by Africans, while working with the smartest, brightest & coolest minds in Africa. Our people & culture team continuously thinks of innovative ways to improve employee experience and some of the other benefits of working with Qore includes; 

• Very Competitive & Rewarding Pay
• Flexible work mode 
• Medical Insurance  
• Paid Lunch for onsite work 
• Lifelong Learnings