Our client is a Nigerian multinational company headquartered in Lagos that creates showcases and aggregates African contents online.
Job Summary
As our Cloud Infrastructure Engineer you will take the lead in designing deploying maintaining and scaling our entire infrastructure across data centers virtual machines storage networking and orchestration layers.
Key Responsibilities
- Design build and manage our self-hosted cloud infrastructure (bare metal and virtualized).
- Deploy and manage hypervisors (e.g. Proxmox KVM VMware ESXi).
- Set up and optimize virtual machine orchestration storage (ZFS Ceph RAID) and backups.
- Configure and secure networking: VLANs DNS routing firewall VPNs and load balancing.
- Implement high-availability systems failover planning and redundancy strategies.
- Develop automation scripts for provisioning monitoring backup and disaster recovery (Ansible bash Python etc).
- Implement infrastructure monitoring (Prometheus Grafana Zabbix).
- Establish infrastructure policies covering security uptime user isolation and resource allocation.
- Collaborate with technical leadership to evolve the infrastructure strategy and roadmap.
Requirements
- 4 years of experience managing on-prem or hybrid infrastructure not just cloud platforms.
- Hands-on experience with Proxmox VE KVM or VMware ESXi.
- Strong Linux administration skills (Ubuntu/Debian/CentOS).
- In-depth knowledge of networking protocols firewall configuration SSL/TLS VPN IP addressing and routing.
- Proven experience in infrastructure automation and scripting.
- Familiarity with RAID ZFS Ceph or other scalable storage solutions.
- Working knowledge of monitoring and alerting systems.
- Ability to optimize for performance uptime and cost-effectiveness.
- Strong security awareness (DDoS prevention port hardening user isolation).
- Self-starter with strong problem-solving and documentation skills.