FairMoney is a credit-led mobile bank for emerging markets. The company was launched in 2017, operates in Nigeria & India, and raised close to €50m from global investors like Tiger Global, DST & Flourish Ventures. The company has offices in France, Nigeria, Germany, Latvia, the UK, Türkiye, and India.
You will be working as a Software Engineer in our Technology Division, which is now composed of 75+ people in Lagos, Bangalore, Paris, Türkiye, and remotely across the globe.We are building Engineering centers of excellence across multiple regions and are looking for smart, talented, driven engineers. This is a unique opportunity to be part of the core engineering team of a fast-growing fintech poised for more rapid growth in the coming years.
We are recruiting suitable candidates to fill the position below:
Job Title: Systems Reliability Engineer
Location: Abuja
Employment Type: Full Time
Department: Engineering
About The Role
- The systems reliability engineer (SRE) will apply aspects of software development skills to infrastructure and operations work.
- Since the main goal of this role is to create scalable and highly reliable systems, the SRE will spend up to half of its time doing operations-related activities such as supporting issues, writing documentation, and system management.
- The SRE should spend the rest of its time delivering development tasks such as new features, scaling, and automation.
Roles and Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership on large/complex systems and platform opportunities.
- Build tooling to support the automation, management, and reliability of applicable systems.
- Build and support release pipelines for applicable systems.
- Work as an integrated part of a development/delivery team to include SRE practices as part of solution design.
- Manage the system lifecycle from design and implementation, to turn-down and decommissioning.
- Write documentation for peers and business partners supporting applicable systems.
- Work with business partners to define SLOs and SLIs and build robust monitoring solutions supporting agreed-upon metrics.
- Resolve P1 and P2 tickets using a proven systematic approach that focuses on returning safely returning to full system capability and creating plans to fix root-cause issues.
- Lead communications efforts regarding both system issues/activities as well as blameless post-mortems.
- Provide mentorship to junior team members.
- Performs other related duties as assigned.
- Strong ability to optimally multitask and prioritize work, juggling daily support responsibilities with multiple product/project-driven activities.
- Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
- Work independently and with a delivery team toward releasing features on agreed-upon timelines.
- Strong ability to support SQL database technologies including SQL Server, Azure SQL PaaS, and Azure SQL Managed Instances.
- Provide comprehensive administration of core platforms including backups, recovery, monitoring, maintenance, and upgrades.
- Scripting and automation experience with Infrastructure as Code languages such as Azure Resource Manager, AWS Cloud Formation, Ansible, or Terraform.
- Experience writing YAML code to build and manage Azure DevOps pipelines.
- Proficiency with Azure resource management and operations.
- Familiarity with Windows Server administration and operations.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in computer science or related field and 5+ years of experience or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Minimum 4 years in an enterprise-level system engineering or reliability engineering role.
- Strong base knowledge of operating systems, networking basics, and security best-practices.
- Working knowledge of Agile delivery and DevOps principles.
- Proficiency in one or more programming or scripting languages (PowerShell, C#, TypeScript, or Java preferred).
- Proficiency in database management technologies.
- Technical certifications are a plus.
Benefits
- Private Health Insurance
- Paid Time Off
- Pension Plan
- Work From Home
- Training & Development
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online
Recruitment Process
- Screening call with a member of the recruitment team for 30 minutes.
- Technical interview with members of the Engineering team for 45-60 minutes.