Description

Flutterwave was founded on the principle that every African must be able to participate and thrive in the global economy. To achieve this objective, we have built a trusted payment infrastructure that allows consumers and businesses (African and International) make and receive payments in a convenient borderless manner.

The Role: Flutterwave is seeking a seasoned Senior DevOps Engineer in India.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

Build enterprise-grade Cloud infrastructure for business needs, with AWS and AZURE products.
Create Cloud standards and best practices for high availability & reliability business needs.
Use Terraform and Helm to automate AWS and AZURE tasks and Kubernetes deployments
Work closely with developers to design highly available and scalable deployments of microservices.
Design and Provision AWS/AZURE networking, VPCs and VPN connections.
Build fully automated CI/CD processes using argo cd.
Be part of an on-call rotation to support production systems.
Be a creative and dynamic cross-functional technical resource with the endurance for a fast-paced start-up environment.
Strong opinions about evolving SRE practices.
Strong inclination to a test-first development approach including DevOps automation code.
Contribute to open-source DevOps and SRE tools, however small the contribution is.
Participate in public domain discussions related to SRE tools and practices. Passion to identify processes that can be automated and improved i.e., You cannot withstand manual operations.
Provide the Technical Leadership as Subject Matter Expert
Align the business strategy with the technical strategy for your team
Be accountable for the architecture and direction of SRE toolset and ensure that it is aligned with the broader technology strategy
Lead behavioral change within your team, allowing failure, encouraging ownership, facilitating collaboration and shaping the team

Required competency and skillset to be a waver:

Bachelor’s Degree preferably in Engineering or related field
8+ years of experience in software development, preferably in DevOps/SRE
Strong experience in managing Azure Infrastructure.
Proficient in public cloud practice, a programming or scripting language like GoLang or Python/Shell
5+ years of Kubernetes experience managing cloud-native, container-based applications with microservice architecture
Extensive cloud deployment/systems experience, be able to support the teams being subject matter expert in cloud infrastructure management, preferably with GCP.
You are experienced in setting up CI/CD pipelines for microservices using Helm, ArgoCD
Build and manage systems, infrastructure and applications through automation using infrastructure as code, ideally solid experience with Terraform
Experience with developing and maintaining Helm Charts
Implementation of monitoring solutions / Metric-driven alerting, logging and tracing.
Troubleshooting in complex environments using the monitoring tools
Establishing and measuring SLIs and SLOs with engineering teams.
Solid Linux administration skills
To coach & mentor your site reliability engineers, encouraging best practices, standards and continuous improvement of practices & processes
Track and reduce architectural, process and technical debt for SRE toolset
Experience of coaching and mentoring technical junior team members