DevOps Engineer & Backend Developer

Job description

Position: Devops/Backend EngineerLocation: Banana Island / IkoyiDepartment: Engineering

Job Description:

We are looking for a hybrid DevOps Engineer & Backend Developer to join our team and help build, scale, and manage our infrastructure while also contributing to backend development in a microservices environment. The ideal candidate will have strong DevOps skills alongside backend development experience using NestJS, gRPC, and an understanding of service mesh technologies such as Istio.

Responsibilities:DevOps Responsibilities:

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Design, provision, and maintain infrastructure using tools like Terraform, Helm, and Ansible for provisioning cloud resources (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Service Mesh Management: Implement, configure, and optimize Istio as a service mesh for managing microservices traffic, security, and observability in a Kubernetes environment.
• CI/CD Pipelines: Build, automate, and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI, or CircleCI to support backend development and deployment.
• Monitoring & Observability: Set up and manage monitoring solutions (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack) to track system health and performance. Troubleshoot production issues and optimize system performance.
• Containerization & Orchestration: Manage Docker containers and deploy services in Kubernetes clusters, ensuring scalability, high availability, and zero-downtime deployments.

Backend Development Responsibilities:

• Backend Development with NestJS: Design and develop scalable, high-performance backend services using NestJS, a Node.js framework for building efficient microservices.
• gRPC Microservices: Build and manage gRPC-based microservices for efficient communication across the platform, ensuring reliability, security, and optimal performance.
• Microservices Architecture: Contribute to the design and architecture of microservices, ensuring that services are loosely coupled, easily maintainable, and resilient.
• Load Balancing & Traffic Management: Use Istio for intelligent load balancing and traffic routing between backend services. Work with Nginx as a reverse proxy for handling traffic.
• API Development & Integration: Develop and maintain APIs that are robust, secure, and scalable. Integrate backend services with other microservices within the ecosystem.

Collaboration and Best Practices:

• Work closely with other development teams to optimize workflows and improve the overall reliability of microservices.
• Contribute to continuous improvement efforts for both infrastructure and backend services, staying up-to-date with emerging technologies and best practices.
• Implement security best practices for both infrastructure and application development, including secure communication, authorization, and access control policies.

Requirements:

DevOps & Infrastructure Skills:

• Experience
• 3+ years of experience as a DevOps Engineer or Site Reliability Engineer.
• Strong hands-on experience with Istio for managing microservices traffic, observability, and security.
• Experience with Nginx for load balancing, reverse proxying, and securing APIs.
• Expertise in Kubernetes and Docker for containerization, orchestration, and service scaling.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and infrastructure management.
• Tools & Technologies
• Istio for service mesh, traffic management, and service discovery.
• Terraform, Ansible, Helm for infrastructure as code (IaC).
• Monitoring tools: Prometheus, Grafana, Elasticsearch, etc.
• CI/CD tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI, or CircleCI.

Backend Development Skills:

• Experience:
• 2+ years of experience working with NestJS for building scalable backend services.
• Strong experience with gRPC for building microservices communication.
• Solid understanding of RESTful API design, optimization, and integration with third-party services.
• Experience working with databases (SQL/NoSQL), message brokers (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ), and caching layers (e.g., Redis).
• Skills & Knowledge:
• Proficiency in TypeScript and Node.js for backend development.
• Experience with NestJS framework, including designing controllers, modules, and services.
• Familiarity with gRPC and asynchronous communication patterns between microservices.
• Understanding of microservices architecture, distributed systems, and best practices for scaling services.

Preferred Candidate:

• Experience with Kafka or other messaging queues for event-driven microservices.
• Familiarity with Service Mesh concepts and other tools like Linkerd.
• Experience with serverless architectures or Cloud Native approaches.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• Flexible work hours and remote work options.
• Career growth opportunities with a collaborative and dynamic team.

How to Apply:

If you are passionate about DevOps, backend development, and scaling microservices with cutting-edge technologies like gRPC, NestJS, Istio, and Nginx, please send your resume and a cover letter detailing why youd be a great fit for this role to career@smatvirtual.com.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: From ₦200,000.00 per month

Application Question(s):

• Have you worked with istio service mesh before?
• Do you have experience working with GRPC and Nestjs?
• Do you have experience with Nestjs Clean Architechture?

Experience:

• Work: 3 years (Required)