Senior DevOps Engineer

Senior DevOps Engineer

Location: Remote — Candidates must be based in Lagos or Abuja, Nigeria

Employment Type: Full-time

Experience: 4+ years

About the Role

BlueOcean Tech Services is hiring an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to support fast-moving technology and AI products for international clients.

We are looking for someone who is genuinely hands-on with cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, deployments, monitoring, security and production reliability. You should be comfortable working closely with engineering teams, troubleshooting production issues and building infrastructure that allows teams to ship quickly without compromising stability or security.

What You’ll Do

• Design, configure and maintain cloud infrastructure for client products.
• Build and manage CI/CD pipelines for frontend, backend, mobile and AI services.
• Manage deployments, rollbacks, environments and release processes.
• Work with AWS, Azure, GCP, DigitalOcean or similar cloud platforms.
• Configure and maintain Docker, Kubernetes, serverless services, databases, networking, storage and secrets.
• Implement monitoring, alerting, logging, backups and incident-response processes.
• Improve infrastructure reliability, security, performance and cost efficiency.
• Troubleshoot infrastructure and production issues alongside engineering teams.
• Create and maintain infrastructure documentation, runbooks and deployment procedures.

What We’re Looking For

• 4+ years of professional DevOps, cloud infrastructure or SRE experience.
• Strong Linux, networking, Docker and CI/CD knowledge.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure and/or GCP.
• Experience with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, CircleCI or similar.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation or Ansible.
• Experience with monitoring/logging tools such as Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, CloudWatch, Sentry or ELK.
• Good understanding of security, access controls, secrets management, backups, availability and incident response.
• Strong production troubleshooting skills.
• Excellent written and spoken English.
• Experience supporting AI/ML workloads, GPUs, vector databases, LLM applications or high-scale SaaS products is an advantage.

You’ll Thrive Here If You

• Take ownership and communicate proactively.
• Stay calm and structured during production incidents.
• Can build clean, repeatable and secure infrastructure.
• Understand how to improve developer velocity without introducing unnecessary operational risk.
• Work effectively with international and US-based teams.
• Are comfortable working in a fast-paced startup environment and overlapping with US working hours when required.
• Have reliable internet, power backup and a suitable remote-work setup.
• Are willing to complete practical assessments as part of the hiring process.