Cloud Infrastructure Engineer at Unified Payment Services Limited
Confidential
Lagos, Nigeria
Permanent
Published 1 month ago · Expires 4 weeks from now
Job description
## Title: Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Job Objectives
The 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 (such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud), deploying scalable and secure infrastructure, and ensuring high availability and performance.
Duties & 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 services
Requirements
Education
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or related field
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