DevOps Engineer Job at Sproutly Inc

Sproutly Inc. is a Delaware C Corp with operations address at 1309 Coffeen Ave STE 1200, Sheridan Wyoming 82801, USA. The company is operational in Nigeria with operations service hub address at Charis Ultimo, 42/44 Kusenla Road, Lekki, Lagos. Sproutly offers financial services to schools and families in Africa through collections, financial managements and credits. Sproutly's  biggest ambition is to service the entirety of Africa and beyond and this ambition has been put into a plan we want to achieve over the next 5 years.

We’ve worked hard to create a community of forward-thinking people that are personally and professionally invested in Sproutly’s mission. Our teams bring together experienced talent and inspirational new voices to build a collaborative space to learn and grow.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: DevOps Engineer

Job Location: Lagos, Nigeria

Job Description

• The DevOps Engineer will have primary responsibilities for managing and scaling our AWS infrastructure, maintaining services on Hetzner servers, and ensuring seamless CI/CD pipeline operations.
• You will work closely with the engineering teams to streamline deployments, enhance infrastructure stability, manage backup automation, and ensure that our production systems are built and maintained with the highest standards of security, reliability, and scalability.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Cloud Infrastructure (AWS): Design, implement, and maintain the cloud infrastructure on AWS following the Well-Architected Framework principles, focusing on scalability, security, and cost efficiency.
• Hetzner Server Management: Maintain and manage services running on Hetzner servers, ensuring smooth operations and optimal performance.
• Backup Automation: Manage and optimize the backup automation process for critical data to Hetzner storage boxes, ensuring high availability and redundancy.
• CI/CD Pipeline Management: Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines using CircleCI, leveraging custom automation scripts and tools written in Go and Bash.
• Monitoring & Logging: Set up and maintain monitoring, logging, and alerting tools (e.g., CloudWatch, Prometheus, Loki and Grafana) to ensure infrastructure performance and availability. Troubleshoot and resolve system issues to minimize downtime and performance degradation.
• Collaboration & Automation: Work with development teams to automate testing, deployment, scaling, and backup processes, improving both speed and reliability of releases.
• Best Practices & Documentation: Ensure that all DevOps practices and configurations are well-documented. Promote and enforce best practices around deployment, security, backups, and reliability.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Use Terraform to provision and manage infrastructure, ensuring consistency across all stages (dev, staging, production).
• Containerization & Orchestration: Manage and maintain Docker images and repositories. Collaborate with teams to implement containerization best practices and enable seamless application scaling.
• Kubernetes Experience : Support container orchestration tasks with a working knowledge of Kubernetes, including troubleshooting and scaling as needed.
• Security: Implement and manage security tests, including vulnerability scanning, penetration testing, and code quality checks as part of the CI/CD pipeline. Regularly audit and improve the security posture of infrastructure and applications.
• Continuous Improvement: Stay current with industry trends and emerging technologies, particularly in cloud infrastructure, backup automation, and DevOps practices. Implement improvements to optimize systems and processes.

Our technical stack:  

• Cloud: AWS (ECS, S3, RDS, SES, CloudWatch, EC2, AWS Loadbalancers, SQS, SNS, Elasticache, SecretManager) and Hetzner for server management and backups.
• CI/CD: CircleCI, Github action, Yaml, custom Go and Bash scripts for pipeline automation.
• Infrastructure: Terraform for infrastructure provisioning.
• Containers: Docker on AWS ECS and Hetzner servers.
• Orchestration: Kubernetes (with potential for future integration).
• Application: Flutter.
• API: REST, PHP, GO, Laravel
• Web: TypeScript, Vue.js, Nuxtjs
• Database: Postgres

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Maths, or a related technical domain.
• 4+ years of professional experience in Server Systems Admin, DevOps, cloud infrastructure, and automation.
• Strong experience with AWS services (ECS, EC2, RDS, etc.) and managing cloud infrastructure.
• Experience managing services running on Hetzner servers with knowledge of backup automation.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform for infrastructure automation.
• Proficiency in building CI/CD pipelines with CircleCI, and writing automation scripts in Go or Bash.
• Experience with Docker for containerization, including building, managing, and maintaining repositories.
• Understanding of Kubernetes fundamentals, container orchestration, and troubleshooting.
• Experience implementing security tests and practices in CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience Benchmarking API performance and running scheduled security audits

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in the design and implementation of complex cloud infrastructure projects.
• Familiarity with AWS Well-Architected Framework and Hetzner server management.
• Strong knowledge of microservice architecture and container orchestration.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, CloudWatch, ELK Stack).
• Experience managing backups and storage solutions, particularly Hetzner storage boxes.
• Experience with Kubernetes-based deployments and scaling.

Benefits

• Salary: N350,000 - N450,000 / Month (Net)
• Health Insurance
• Pension Plan.