Senior DevSecOps and Infrastructure Expert

Senior DevSecOps and Infrastructure Expert Are you an experienced DevSecOps and IT Infrastructure expert with strong technical skills, and the ability to innovate, multi-task, and work in an agile environment? Then, join our team in Lagos Nigeria in revolutionizing customer service with our cutting-edge AI-powered chatbot.

Vennote Technologies is building a next-generation Natural Language Understanding, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence product with a focus on Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Multimodal and Cross-Channel User Interfaces (phone, web, mobile, etc.)

This is a full-time Hybrid position and successful candidates will play a critical role in designing, implementing, and maintaining the infrastructure and security posture of our AI powered chatbot platform. You will be responsible for ensuring its stability, performance, and security while supporting our development teams and driving continuous improvement.

It is also a senior technical leadership position and requires individuals who enjoy challenges, prioritize, meet deadlines, and have a collaborative work ethic and teamwork spirit leading our team of Software developers, NLP Engineers, data Scientists, Speech Scientists, Analysts, and Project Managers.

We have:

· A state-of-the-art, highly innovative Product platform that we continuously expand/improve to maintain our leadership

· A team of seasoned experts to collaborate with. · An open mind to new technologies, methodologies, challenges, and innovation

· Responsibilities:

• Infrastructure Management: Design, build, and maintain our cloud-based infrastructure on Azure. Optimize for performance, scalability, and cost-effectiveness. This includes managing servers, databases, networking components, and CI/CD pipelines.

• CI/CD Pipeline Management: Design, build, and maintain robust and automated CI/CD pipelines for continuous integration and continuous delivery of our chatbot platform.

• DevSecOps Practices: Champion and implement DevSecOps principles, automating security checks and integrating security into the development and deployment pipelines.

• Security Implementation: Implement and manage security best practices across the entire infrastructure and application lifecycle. This includes vulnerability scanning, penetration testing, security audits, intrusion detection/prevention, and access control. • Monitoring and Logging: Implement comprehensive monitoring and logging solutions to proactively identify and address performance bottlenecks, security incidents, and system issues.

• Incident Response: Participate in incident response activities, including troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and implementing corrective actions.

• Collaboration: Work closely with development, security, and operations teams to ensure seamless integration and collaboration.

• Automation: Automate repetitive tasks and processes to improve efficiency and reduce manual effort.

• Documentation: Maintain clear and up-to-date documentation of infrastructure, security procedures, and deployment processes.

• Staying Current: Stay up to date with the latest security threats, vulnerabilities, and best practices.

• Knowledge of Azure Cloud, Azure Cosmos DB, Databases and Kubernetes.

• Document and monitor requirements needed to institute proposed updates

• Account for possible project challenges on constraints including, risks, time, resources and scope

• Work closely with project management teams to successfully monitor progress of initiatives and deliveries

• Provide Solution document, technical document and detailed specifications for proposed solutions.

• Have an agile product mentality balancing between finding solutions that deliver high precision/recall, over simpler approaches that can give value to customers in shorter intervals.

• Demonstrate passion, excitement, and real interest in what we do while being respectful of others and fun to work with

• Get involved in all stages of ML lifecycle