Work From Home Job Vacancies @ Decagon – 4 Positions

Decagon is recruiting to fill the following positions:

1.) Site Reliability Engineer
2.) DevOps Engineer
3.) Agile Coach
4.) Program Lead

Decagon is an Elite Software Development Training Institute that runs a 6-month intense software and leadership training, focused on transforming Nigerian youths to world-class software developers and leaders in the tech industry even if they cannot pay.

Location: Remote
Employment Type: Contract

Role Summary

• We are looking for talented & experienced engineers to help us build and support our cloud-native infrastructure.
• As a Site Reliability Engineer, you’ll be joining a team of mix background technologists.
• Our mandate is to provide secure, flexible and stable platform solutions that empower our feature development teams to create the highest quality services for our customers.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Develop, deploy, and operate cloud-native infrastructure in support of SaaS platform
• Develop and improve instrumentation for understanding and troubleshooting the health and availability of services
• Bring a mindset of standards and best practices to help create observability solutions that the team would want to adopt
• Participate in an on-call rotation
• Drive a culture of automation, both within the team and throughout the organization, in order to scale efficiently and reliably
• Participate in technical discussions to aid system design, analysis, and troubleshooting
• Help engineering teams to develop, test, debug and release scalable, resilient and highly available cloud-native applications

Skills / Requirements

• 4+ years of experience with implementation, operations, and maintenance of cloud services
• A drive to inspire adoption through enthusiasm
• An understanding of the importance of a strong feedback loop with other teams and individuals across the organization
• A deep understanding of cloud computing concepts and solutions, specifically with Google Cloud Platform
• A solid understanding of Identity and Access Management, as well as setting and auditing access policies
• Experience with cloud-native approaches to security concerns
• Hands-on experience with container and container orchestration technologies: Kubernetes, Docker, Podman, etc.
• Experience working with Infrastructure-as-Code tools
• Intimate understanding of one or more of these monitoring and observability tools: DataDog, Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger, Honeycomb
• Very strong problem solving & troubleshooting skills, including the ability to perform root cause analysis and preventative analysis

Nice to have:

• You have experience in building systems in a microservice environment, understanding the basic building blocks of resilient and scalable software
• Experience with web applications developed in Python or Ruby
• Knowledge of some or all of: web/network protocols, security, data persistence, and CI/CD pipelines
• An understanding of modern software development practices: TDD/BDD, hexagonal design, etc.
• An understanding of Linux primitives: process scheduling, signals, namespaces, authentication/authorization, etc.

Perks of the Role

• Become a crucial part of a fast-growth, dynamic company, and its expansion.
• The Monthly pay rate is in USD.
• Great/flexible work culture.

Remuneration
USD2,000 - 2,200 Monthly.

Application Closing Date
31st August, 2022.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Location: Remote
Employment Type: Contract

Role Summary

• The DevOps Engineer helps increase speed of delivery, improve code quality / security and optimize processes for the development team.
• The DevOps Engineer is responsible for identifying bottlenecks in the development and delivery processes, working with team members to improve them and enhance the overall developer experience.
• He or she is responsible for infrastructure implementation tools such as code and support services in various clouds, along with metrics and access information

Duties & Responsibilities

• Work closely with the architect and developers to evaluate existing problems and arrive at process improvement solutions
• Identify bottlenecks in the coding development and implementation process
• Participate in the planning of the delivery time, the quality of the code and the improvement of the efficiency of the process
• Execute the plan by creating coding standards and automating processes for the organization
• Perform daily tasks such as setting up development and production environments, monitoring metrics and reporting incidents
• Develop and maintain knowledge of platform configuration management and troubleshooting
• Actively participate in the deployment of application devices in appropriate environments through compatible technologies and infrastructures
• Coordinate with developers and technical members of the organization to understand their main weaknesses in the coding and development process
• Working with the rest of the team to provide a coherent and holistic solution to the organization

Skills / Requirements

• Possess a Bachelor's Degree in relevant fields.
• 3-4 years of excellent coding and scripting skills and experience in implementing large-scale cloud architectures using modern cloud-based container platforms is highly desirable
• Knowledge in the implementation of automatic infrastructure provisioning solutions is highly desirable (i.e. Puppet, Chef, Ansible)
• Linux OS, SQL, PL SQL, Scripting, Container knowledge
• Nice to have knowledge of cloud infrastructure and management tools for computing components, storage, networking, caching, etc.
• Network knowledge is nice to have
• Strong understanding of agile methodologies
• Experience as a DevOps or SRE Engineer in an agile multifunctional team is preferred
• Strong communication skills with ability to communicate complex technical concepts and align the organization in decisions
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to quickly process complex information and present it clearly and simply
• Use team collaboration to efficiently create innovative solutions
• Passionate about technology and excited about the impact of emerging/disruptive technologies
• You want to give free rein to the internal self-entrepreneur and work in an environment that encourages entrepreneurial minds
• Believes in the culture of transparency and trust
• Open to learning new ideas.

Salary / Perks

• N650,000 - N750,000 monthly.
• Become a crucial part of a fast-growth, dynamic company, and its expansion.
• Competitive pay.
• Great / flexible work culture.

Application Closing Date
31st August, 2022.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Location: Remote
Employment Type: Contract

Role Summary

• Agile Coach encourages, empowers, and coaches both leadership and Agile teams. The Agile Coach will coach all team members formally and informally (with a keen focus on the organization’s Product Owners and Chapter Leads), striving to unlock the potential and curiosity in everyone.
• The Agile Coach will embrace change while acting as a defender of Agile methodologies and evangelize core Agile principles in the organization

Duties and Responsibilities

• Build and coach multiple high performing agile development teams
• Look for ways to strengthen the team's understanding of Agile, e.g., Scrum concepts and principles
• Teach, mentor and improve Agile practices across the organization
• Coach and train senior leadership on building an Agile enterprise that is more focused on business value, driving outcomes, and a faster time to market
• Drive consistent behaviors across the organization by standing up a community of practice
• Monitor health of the collective team, checking that commitments, pace and quality are on track, then help the team understand how to inspect & adapt where needed
• Coach the product team to identify trade-offs between short and long term benefits to drive shared vision between the team

Skills / Requirements

• 7-8 years of experience acting as a servant leader/Agile coach/Scrum master in a fast moving tech environment
• Deep knowledge of Agile principles and the flexibility to adapt their experience to new and evolving environments
• Experience with large scale software delivery and/or Agile transformation at scale in large enterprise organizations
• Passion for driving teams towards high performance and a deep pride in quality craftsmanship that delights users
• Experience leading (and ideally transforming) design organizations within IT or "tech-first" organizations
• Strong communication skills with ability to communicate complex messages and teach new concepts
• Certified Agile Coach / Scrum Master is a plus.

Perks of the Role

• Become a crucial part of a fast-growth, dynamic company, and its expansion.
• The Monthly pay rate is in USD.
• Great/flexible work culture.

Application Closing Date
31st August, 2022.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Location: Remote
Employment Type: Contract

Role Summary

• You will be involved in partnering with the head of digital to develop effective product strategies, visions and execution plans with a mission to shape and deliver digital products that transform customer experiences for the products within your portfolio, you will define measurable objectives to gain market share, maximize profitability and/or increase customer satisfaction through customer-centered digital experiences.
• In this role you will take accountability for digital sales, working with digital marketing executives to achieve sales targets through digital innovation.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end product strategy from inception with a customer-centric vision, determine business value once solution enters production, develop effective product strategies, vision, and design and execute the product roadmap
• Play an important role leading Product Owners and cross-functional product teams through the process of designing and delivering digital solutions that solve business problems and capture opportunities, ensuring both creativity and relevance
• Lead innovation in product sales, customer loyalty and retention and think creatively to deliver first class digital solutions that create rapid impact
• Prepare and present product visions and proposals to the leadership team and wider organization - outlining how new business opportunities are expected to promote business growth and profitability in line with strategic goals
• Display dynamic leadership working with partners throughout the organization and leading product teams focused on innovation, entrepreneurial spirit, growth and success
• Identify, develop and track measurable, objectives/KPIs to gain market share, maximize profitability and increase customer satisfaction through customer-centered digital experiences
• Nurture top talent, networks and partners - identifying and building relationships with candidates for key open positions and future positions created by growth

Skills / Requirements

• 8+ years of experience leading product teams
• Experience in payments and Fintech industry, understanding of payments landscape and how E2E payments from acquiring to settlement works
• Deep experience in digital product development and management
• Experience with designing creative, quality consumer products, as well as enabling business capability and objectives through technology
• Experience of operating within a multi-channel/multi-region brand
• Entrepreneurial self-starter who is self-motivated, but also a team player with a professional presence
• Demonstrates thought leadership and is able to influence at all levels in the organization
• Experience with conducting user research, usability testing, A/B testing, rapid prototyping and analytics
• Strong understanding of qualitative research with ability to establish culture of ‘test-and-learn’
• Knowledge of Agile software development processes

Perks of the Role

• Become a crucial part of a fast-growth, dynamic company, and its expansion.
• The Monthly pay rate is in USD.
• Great/flexible work culture

Application Closing Date
31st August, 2022.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online