Site Reliability Engineer at Interswitch Group

JOB TITLE: Site Reliability Engineer

JOB LOCATION: Lagos

JOB DETAILS:

• The role involves managing the availability and capacity of core applications to ensure optimal performance.
• Responsibilities include providing technical support for these applications, troubleshooting issues, and implementing the setup and integration of new applications within the company’s environment.
• The successful candidate will play a key role in maintaining the stability and efficiency of the organization’s application infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain highly available and scalable infrastructure.
• Collaborate with development teams to ensure applications are built with reliability and performance in mind.
• Monitor system performance, identify bottlenecks, and proactively implement optimizations to improve system efficiency.
• Develop and maintain automation tools for deployment, configuration, and monitoring of systems and services.
• Conduct system capacity planning and provide recommendations for scaling resources to meet growing demands.
• Identify and resolve complex technical issues related to infrastructure, networking, and application performance.
• Implement and improve monitoring, alerting, and logging systems to ensure timely detection and resolution of incidents.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and implement best practices for infrastructure, deployment, and operational processes.
• Participate in on-call rotation and provide timely response and resolution to production incidents.
• Stay up-to-date with industry trends and emerging technologies in cloud computing and infrastructure automation.
• Strong experience with on-prem infrastructure and cloud platforms such as AWS, and Azure.
• Proficiency in infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Solid understanding of containerization technologies such as Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes.
• Experience with configuration management tools like Ansible, Puppet, or Chef.
• Strong scripting skills in languages such as Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
• Deep knowledge of Linux systems administration and networking concepts.
• Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack

Education
Academic Qualification(s):

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent work experience).

Professional Qualification(s):

• Service Management Certifications (e.g. ITIL) are an advantage.

Experience (Number of relevant years):

• Minimum of 3-4 years of experience in a similar SRE or infrastructure engineering role.

HOW TO APPLY
To apply for the ongoing Interswitch job opening, visit the job APPLICATION PORTAL to submit your application!