Guaranty Trust Holding Company PLC, usually known as GTCO PLC, is a worldwide financial services company with its headquarters in Victoria Island, Lagos, Nigeria. It provides retail and investment banking, pension management, asset management, and payments services. Following the conversion of Guaranty Trust Bank PLC into a Holding Company, GTCO Plc was established in July 2021. . .
Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Job Type: Full-Time
Experience Level: 4+ years
Who Are We Looking For?
The emphasis of this position will be on promoting the DevOps methodology to increase developer productivity through well defined automated services at various levels of continuous integration and delivery. The DevOps Lead Engineer must have thorough understanding of a variety of technologies and development tools. The purpose of this function is to advance the maturity of Continuous Delivery methodologies while bringing about cultural change. A high level of collaboration is required in this technical, hands-on position. The role holder will take current networks into account while designing, planning, and testing by bridging and merging the gaps between the various business, software development, testing, and operations teams.
Responsibilities
- Developing and constructing IT solutions, installing and configuring solutions, implementing reusable components, translating technical specifications, assisting with all stages of test data, developing interface stubs and simulators, and maintaining and updating scripts are all part of the job description.
- Build automated deployments using configuration management technology.
- Upgrade existing modules, install new ones, and finish any necessary repairs inside the production environment.
- Make modules ready for production, which entails moving them according to specific procedures and documenting knowledge transfer.
- Responsible for routine application maintenance tasks which must be accomplish via strategy-building techniques.
- Create requirements and procedures for implementing routine maintenance.
- Accountable for identifying and fixing faults in the current information systems.
- Evaluate existing applications and platforms and recommendations for enhancing performance via gap analysis, identifying the most practical alternative solutions and assisting with modifications.
- Design DevOps roadmaps for enterprise agility as well as DevOps readiness.
- Design release plan roadmap in collaboration with Chief Product Owner and Chief Scrum Master.
- Deploy/Scale incremental improvements enterprise-wide, measure progress, then return to step one to reassess DevOps capability.
- Drive automation at all stages of software development, release, operations, and maintenance.
- Create solutions that adhere to all Agile standards, from development to governance.
- Design, encourage and monitor continuous process improvement and Agile assessments
- Set up the tools for Enterprise DevOps delivery pipeline
Key Requirements
EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a closely related discipline, such as information technology
- 4+ years’ experience in DevOps and/or Cloud Infrastructure Engineering
- Demonstrable background standing up Kubernetes (k8s) – GKE highly preferred facing products
- Strong preference for demonstrable standing-up Kubernetes (k8s) experience with GKE
- Recent experience using Infrastructure as Code, Configuration Management, & Orchestration tools (Chef, Ansible, Terraform, Cloud formation, Puppet, etc.)
- A strong understanding of public cloud environments (preferably GCP)
- Experience leveraging multiple methods of working such as CI/CD, BDD, TDD, Agile and a strong understanding of the software delivery lifecycle (SDLC)
- Scripting/light application coding may be involved (Java, JS, Python)
KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS REQUIRED:
- Leading with Agility in a technical team
- Mentoring
- Excellent prioritization, collaboration, negotiation, and communication skills
- Strong and effective decision making
- Thorough experience and knowledge of scrum/agile framework in a growing organization
- Excellent organizational, change management, and time management skills
Additional Information
- Although this post does not have direct supervisory responsibilities, it does serve as a coach and mentor for other departmental positions.
Method of Application
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