Our client is a Nigerian multinational company headquartered in Lagos that creates showcases and aggregates African contents online.
Job Summary
This role is for a visionary who can design scalable infrastructure create operational frameworks build automation blueprints and guide a cross-functional team of engineers to bring our infrastructure dreams to life.
Key Responsibilities
- Architect our self-hosted cloud platform: networking compute storage orchestration monitoring and security.
- Define and document our multi-tenant cloud architecture including:User/resource isolation Billing-aware provisioning VM lifecycle management Self-service controls.
- Choose the core stack: from hypervisor to orchestration tools (Proxmox vs OpenStack Ansible vs Terraform ZFS vs Ceph).
- Set and enforce infrastructure policies and SLAs (uptime backups failover incident response).
- Lead hardware/software integration in local data centers (rack design KVM over IP remote management).
- Manage the infra team delegate tasks review designs mentor engineers.
- Define secure access and monitoring strategies (e.g. central logging Zero Trust access real-time alerting)
Requirements
- 6 10 years experience in infrastructure architecture or systems engineering leadership.
- Proven experience building or scaling private cloud environments or hosted platforms.
- Strong knowledge of: Hypervisors: Proxmox KVM VMware Storage Systems: Ceph ZFS GlusterFS Linux Systems: Ubuntu Debian CentOS Networking: VLANs routing BGP firewalls VPNs TLS.
- Deep experience with automation and orchestration tools (Ansible Terraform PXE booting IPMI)
- Confident leading system design discussions risk assessments and long-term roadmap planning.