Cloud Engineer

Who we are:

Our product started as a side project in 2021 and now has a few hundred paying customers, mostly in Lagos State. Small accounting firms in Lagos State use our engagement letter and e-signature tool, and most heard about us from a colleague. We started in 2021 and have grown to about 23 people. On-call rotates weekly and pays a flat stipend whether or not the pager goes off.

The role:

Niger Systems has an opening for a Cloud Engineer. We're about halfway through moving data centre workloads to the cloud. This hire will help finish the job and clean up after it. This role is fully remote within Nigeria. Flexible schedule. We have one team call a day, usually in the morning.

In your first few months you will:

• Patch cloud VMs with SSM Patch Manager or Azure Update Manager.
• Configure backups, snapshots and disaster recovery for cloud resources.
• Apply security controls and fix findings from AWS Security Hub, Defender for Cloud or Wiz.
• Set up monitoring with CloudWatch, Azure Monitor or Datadog.
• Keep architecture diagrams and runbooks current.

Requirements:

• 2+ years of hands-on cloud infrastructure experience.
• Familiarity with CIS benchmarks, NIST or similar security frameworks.
• Ability to explain cloud costs and tradeoffs to non-technical managers.
• Infrastructure as code using Terraform, Bicep or CloudFormation.
• Networking fundamentals: CIDR, routing, firewalls, DNS, VPN.
• Understanding of identity integration with Entra ID (Azure AD) or Okta.

Benefits:

Rate: ₦1,000,000 to ₦1,200,000 pcm

• Medical cover.
• Pension contribution.
• Annual leave.
• 13th month salary.
• Data and airtime allowance.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Niger Systems.