UP® otherwise known as Unified Payment Services Limited is Nigeria’s premier Payments & Financial Technology company founded in 1997 by a consortium of leading Nigerian banks. UP® operates as a shared infrastructure for the banking community in Nigeria and Payments Service Provider within and outside Nigeria, with a vision to be the most preferred e-payment service provider in Africa.Job Description
Cloud Infrastructure Engineer designs, implements, and maintains the cloud-based infrastructure that supports an organization’s computing needs.
This role involves working with cloud platforms (like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud), deploying scalable and secure infrastructure, and ensuring high availability and performance.
Typically, they report to the company’s Chief Information Security Officer (CISO).
Duties and Responsibilities
Design and implement cloud architecture to meet business and technical requirements, ensuring scalability, security, and cost-effectiveness.
Use orchestration tools like Kubernetes to automate containerized application deployment and management on the cloud. Implement cloud security best practices, such as identity and access management (IAM), encryption, firewalls, and monitoring for compliance with security policies.
Provide technical support to development teams in deploying, managing, and scaling cloud-based applications.
Collaborate with developers and IT teams to plan, deploy, and manage cloud resources such as virtual machines, networks, and storage.
Develop and implement automation scripts using tools such as Terraform for efficient deployment and management of cloud resources.
Conduct regular security assessments and vulnerability testing to identify and mitigate risks within the cloud infrastructure.
Work closely with software developers and other stakeholders to integrate infrastructure with applications and service.
Requirements
Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or related field.
Certifications Relevant certifications like AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Google Professional Cloud Architect, or Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert etc.
Experience: 4-6 years of experience as a system administrator, network engineer, Devops engineer, cloud engineer, or a similar role in a security operations environment.
Technical Skills:
Expertise in setting up and managing EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances, S3 (Simple Storage Service) for data storage, VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) for networking, RDS (Relational Database Service), and other core services.
Expertise in writing configuration files, managing state files, and using Terraform modules for reusability across environments.
Experience in creating, deploying, and managing containerized applications.
This includes writing Dockerfiles, working with container registries like Docker Hub, and managing container images.
Proficiency in Python, Bash or Powershell for automating cloud infrastructure tasks.
Knowledge of Jenkins for continuous integration/continuous delivery pipelines, enabling the automation of code deployments to cloud environments, is required. Proficiency with RDS (AWS), Azure SQL Database, Cloud SQL (GCP), and NoSQL databases like DynamoDB (AWS), CosmosDB (Azure), and Firestore (GCP) for managing cloud-based databases.
Proficiency in orchestrating containerized applications using Kubernetes, including deploying, scaling, and managing clusters.
