Overview
DevOps Engineer Jobs in Nigeria at Qlay
Title: DevOps Engineer
Company: Qlay
Location: Nigeria
As a Principal Engineer, you will:
- Own and evolve the architecture of cloud and on-prem infrastructure
- Lead design and implementation of highly available, scalable, and secure systems
- Set infrastructure standards for reliability, observability, performance, and cost efficiency
- Drive company-wide initiatives around availability, disaster recovery, and capacity planning
- Act as a technical authority for infrastructure, SRE, and platform-related decisions
- Review and guide complex infrastructure designs, migrations, and incident responses
- Identify systemic risks and proactively reduce operational and security debt
- Mentor senior engineers and raise the bar for infrastructure engineering practices
- Partner with product, security, and leadership to align infra strategy with business goals
<Must Have Requirements>
- Preferably graduated from a top Vietnamese university (HCMUT, HCMUS, HUST, UIT, etc.) and/ or top university around the world.
- 6+ years of experience in infrastructure, systems, or platform engineering
- Deep expertise in cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and cloud-native architecture
- Strong background in Linux, networking (TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing), and distributed systems
- Extensive experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi, etc.)
- Proven experience designing and operating high-availability, production systems
- Strong incident management and root cause analysis experience
- Excellent communication and technical leadership skills
Technical Skills
- Cloud services: compute, networking, storage, IAM
- Containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
- CI/CD systems and deployment automation
- Observability: monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting
- Security best practices (identity, secrets, encryption, least privilege)
- Cost optimization and capacity planning
Nice to Have
- Experience with SRE practices and SLIs/SLOs
- Experience running infrastructure at scale (high traffic, global systems)
- Multi-region and disaster recovery architecture
- Experience with compliance-heavy environments (SOC2, ISO, HIPAA, PCI)
- Background in platform or developer experience teams
<Note>
- This will be structured as contractor work.
- Devices: You will be expected to use your own computer to perform the work.
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If you are interested in this position, please:
- Email [email protected] if you have any questions
- Send your CV through application form: https://sheets.qlay.ai/dashboard/#/nc/form/e24f9aba-77d0-4348-9bf9-c4bc8ff7d53a