Senior Development and IT Operations Engineer at 54gene Nigeria

Senior Development and IT Operations Engineer at 54gene Nigeria

54gene Nigeria

Senior Development and IT Operations Engineer at 54gene Nigeria. Please ensure you read the job requirements before applying for this position.

54gene Nigeria was founded in 2019 by Dr. Abasi Ene-Obong to address the significant gap in the global genomics market; Nearly 90% of genetic material used in pharmaceutical research is Caucasian. Only 2% is African, despite the fact that Africans and people of African ancestry are more genetically diverse than all other world populations combined.

Job Title: Senior Development and IT Operations Engineer

Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Job Type: Full time
Department: Engineering
Reports to: VP, Engineering
Industry: Biotechnology

Job Description

  • We are looking for a Senior Development and IT Operations Engineer who will be responsible for mentoring and teaching existing team members.
  • As such, the ideal candidate must have experience clearly explaining solutions to complex problems and demonstrate the ability to lead and impart knowledge effectively to junior resources and have a background in development, operations, and full-stack implementations with experience programming in a high-level language such as Ruby, Python, Java, C# or other languages to script installation, configuration and provisioning.

Duties and Responsibilities

  • Work with application developers to automate and accelerate the testing, release and deployment of applications into a runtime environment quickly and reliably.
  • Provide continuous delivery solutions in a cloud environment with the core suite of tools used to manage different cloud providers.
  • Establish and employ continuous integration practices and tools such as Jenkins or other CI tools.
  • Employ industry Continuous Delivery patterns and collaboratively work with other members to achieve successful continuous delivery solutions
  • Manage a broad portfolio of AWS infrastructure tools (EBS, S3, EC2, Elastic IP, Route 53, VPC)
  • Manage integration and deployment tools such as Jenkins, Hudson, etc.

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 Qualifications and Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, systems analysis or a related study, or equivalent experience
  • 5+ years of experience spanning at least two IT disciplines, including technical architecture, application development, or operations.
  • 3+ more years experience in designing large and complex IT operations in large organizations is required.

Knowledge, Experience and Skills:

  • Experience in the use of configuration management automation tools such as Puppet (or other such tools) in creating continuous delivery systems.
  • Working knowledge of enterprise data center technologies including storage platforms, network switching, and security infrastructure within a virtualized data center.
  • Team lead experience required
  • Knowledge of business process re-engineering principles and processes
  • Strong understanding of application development methodologies
  • Adept at evaluating problems accurately and displaying sound judgment
  • Experience with cloud infrastructure management and automation technologies (Chef, Puppet).
  • Scripting (shell, python, ruby) skills for monitoring and automation
  • Experience optimizing applications, both stand-alone and in distributed systems to maximize performance
  • Experience maintaining infrastructure and ensuring stability while adding new features
  • Ability to clearly articulate design and implementation choices
  • Ability to use a wide variety of open source technologies and tools
  • Comfort with frequent, incremental code testing and deployment
  • Possess a strong grasp of automation tools
  • Comfort with collaboration, open communication and reaching across functional borders
  • Experience working and managing large scale infrastructure is required

Other:

  • Authorization to work in Nigeria
  • The duties stated are intended to describe the general nature and level of work to be performed.
  • They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities and skills required.
  • Other related duties may be assigned within scope of ability.

Application Deadline
Not Specified.


Method of Application

Interested and qualified candidates should:
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