DevOps Engineer

Job Type: Full Time
Experience: Not specified
Location: Lagos

Company: FirstBank

JOB OBJECTIVE(S)

Performs the following key functions at the Digital Innovation Lab:
Defines and executes a high-level software architecture, including its main components and interfaces.
Ensures seamless interaction between system components and external systems within and outside the Lab and bank.
Establishes a clear architectural vision to guide solution development, ensuring mutual understanding among all stakeholders involved in product development.
Designs the infrastructure that supports solutions from the Lab, collaborating with internal and external teams—Test and Production environments.
Oversees solution deployment and provides ongoing support for solutions developed by the Digital Innovation Lab.
Designs, automates, and optimize deployment pipelines for efficient and reliable software delivery.
Bridges the gap between software development and IT operations, enabling faster, more efficient, and more reliable software deployment.

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

Design and review the working architecture to support solutions developed by the Digital Innovation Lab or outsourced to third parties, ensuring the architecture aligns with customer requirements and leverages available technologies.
Perform solution deployment, support, and maintenance for all Digital Innovation Lab solutions.
Collaborate with development teams and oversee the entire software development lifecycle.
Manage and oversee IT systems and networks supporting Digital Innovation Lab solutions, ensuring they meet functionality, performance, resilience, reusability, comprehensibility, scalability, security, technology constraints, and trade-offs, in collaboration with the bank’s CIO functions.
Ensure effective communication of technical requirements to all stakeholders, including business and technical teams, regarding solutions from the Lab.
Define software engineering standards and ensure successful deployment, seamless operation, and optimal performance.
Participate in idea-generation sessions, guiding architecture and infrastructure requirements for proposed ideas.
Develop and maintain Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines to automate application deployment
Implement monitoring tools to ensure system reliability and performance.

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