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Senior Cloud Engineer

Moniepoint

Posted 3 months agoRemote, Nigeria

Location

Remote, Nigeria

Job Type

Full-time

Experience

Senior

Category

Engineering

Job Description

Who we are Moniepoint is an all-in-one financial services platform for emerging markets and the second-fastest-growing company in Africa. Since 2019, Moniepoint’s technology has powered over 3 million people, offering personal and business banking, payment, credit, and business management tools to help them succeed. Moniepoint processed $182 billion in 2023 and currently processes the majority of the POS transactions in Nigeria. Engineering at Moniepoint is an inspired, customer-focused community dedicated to crafting solutions that redefine our industry. Our infrastructure runs on some of the cool tools that excite infrastructure engineers - kubernetes, docker etc. We also make business decisions based on the large stream of data we receive daily, so we work daily with big data, perform data analytics and build models to make sense of the noise and give our customers the best experience. Curious about what makes Moniepoint an incredible place to work?Check out posts on how we cultivate a culture of innovation, teamwork, and growth. Position Overview We are seeking an experienced Cloud Engineer to design, implement, and manage our multi-cloud infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in cloud platforms, container orchestration, infrastructure automation, CI/CD pipelines, and observability solutions, ensuring scalable, reliable, and cost-effective cloud operations across multiple cloud providers.
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Requirements

  • Education & Experience
  • Bachelor's degree or diploma in
  • Computer
  • Science,
  • Information
  • Technology,
  • Engineering, or related field
  • Minimum of 5 years of proven experience in cloud engineering,
  • DevOps, or platform engineering roles
  • Hands-on experience managing production workloads across multiple cloud platforms
  • Relevant cloud and technology certifications are highly desirable
  • Technical
  • Skills
  • Cloud
  • Platforms (Required)
  • Google
  • Platform (GCP): Deep expertise in
  • Compute
  • Engine, GKE,
  • Storage,
  • Cloud SQL, VPC,
  • Functions,
  • Run, IAM Amazon
  • Web
  • Services (AWS): Proficiency in EC2, EKS, S3, RDS, VPC,
  • Lambda, ECS,
  • CloudFormation, IAM Microsoft
  • Azure: Experience with
  • Virtual
  • Machines, AKS,
  • Blob
  • Azure SQL,
  • Networks,
  • Azure
  • Functions, ARM templates
  • Oracle
  • Infrastructure (OCI): Familiarity with
  • Compute, OKE,
  • Object
  • Storage, networking, and OCI-specific services
  • Multi-cloud architecture design and implementation experience
  • Cloud migration strategies and execution (lift-and-shift, re-platforming, re-architecting)
  • Container & Orchestration (Required)
  • Expert-level
  • Kubernetes knowledge, including cluster architecture, networking, storage, and security
  • Hands-on experience with managed
  • Kubernetes services (GKE, EKS, AKS)
  • Proficiency in
  • Docker containerization, image optimization, and registry management
  • Experience with
  • Helm charts for application packaging and deployment
  • Knowledge of container runtime environments (containerd, CRI-O)
  • Service
  • Mesh & Microservices (Required)
  • Istio: Deep expertise in
  • Istio architecture, deployment, and operations
  • Istio traffic management (virtual services, destination rules, gateways, service entries)
  • Istio security features (mTLS, authorization policies, peer authentication, request authentication)
  • Istio observability and telemetry configuration
  • Multi-cluster and multi-mesh deployments
  • Service mesh troubleshooting and performance optimization
  • Understanding of sidecar proxy patterns and
  • Envoy proxy
  • Experience with oth

Responsibilities

  • Cloud
  • Infrastructure
  • Management
  • Design, deploy, and manage multi-cloud infrastructure across
  • Google
  • Platform (GCP),
  • Amazon
  • Web
  • Services (AWS),
  • Azure, and
  • Oracle
  • Infrastructure (OCI)
  • Architect and implement highly available, fault-tolerant, and scalable cloud solutions
  • Manage cloud resources including compute instances and networking components
  • Design and implement disaster recovery and business continuity plans for cloud workloads
  • Migrate on-premises applications and services to cloud environments with minimal disruption
  • Optimize cloud resource utilization and implement auto-scaling policies
  • Maintain comprehensive documentation of cloud architectures, configurations, and runbooks
  • Kubernetes & Container
  • Orchestration
  • Design, deploy, and manage production-grade
  • Kubernetes clusters across multiple cloud providers
  • Implement and maintain container orchestration strategies for microservices architectures
  • Configure and manage
  • Kubernetes resource objects
  • Manage
  • Kubernetes cluster upgrades, scaling, and performance optimization
  • Troubleshoot complex container and orchestration issues in production environments
  • Implement multi-cluster and multi-region
  • Kubernetes deployments for high availability
  • Service
  • Mesh & Advanced
  • Networking
  • Design, deploy, and manage
  • Istio service mesh for microservices communication and observability
  • Configure
  • Istio traffic management, including virtual services, destination rules, and gateways
  • Implement advanced traffic routing (canary deployments, A/B testing, traffic splitting) using
  • Istio
  • Deploy and manage
  • Istio observability components (telemetry, distributed tracing, service graphs)
  • Implement circuit breaking, retries, timeouts, and fault injection for resilience testing
  • Istio ingress and egress gateways for external traffic management
  • Monitor and optimize service mesh performance and resource utilization
  • Implement multi-cluster service mesh architectures across different cloud providers
  • Reverse
  • Proxy & Load
  • Balancing
  • Deploy,

Benefits

  • Attractive salary, pension, health insurance, and annual bonus.
  • Learning and development focused environment with regular internal technical talks.
  • Culture that puts people first.
  • Equal opportunity employer.

How to Apply

Apply through the Moniepoint careers portal.

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