Cloud Network and Infrastructure Engineer

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Cloud Network and Infrastructure Engineer

Location: Lagos

The Role

• This role is ideal for someone who has strong expertise in cloud infrastructure, enterprise networking, systems administration, and infrastructure security, with the ability to manage hybrid environments in a fast-paced financial services organization.
• The Cloud Network and Infrastructure Engineer is responsible for designing, implementing, securing, and optimizing the Bank's hybrid infrastructure across Amazon Web Services (AWS) and on-premises environments.
• The role ensures the availability, reliability, performance, scalability, and security of enterprise infrastructure while supporting business-critical systems, cloud adoption, disaster recovery, and operational excellence.

What You Will Do

• Configure and maintain secure hybrid connectivity between AWS and on-premises environments using VPN, Direct Connect, routing, DNS, load balancing, and network segmentation.
• Participate in change management, incident management, problem management, audit activities, and compliance remediation.
• Collaborate with Security, Applications, Database, Service Desk, and Business teams to deliver reliable infrastructure services.
• Support business-critical applications through proactive incident management, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis.
• Monitor infrastructure performance, availability, capacity, and security using appropriate monitoring and alerting tools.
• Maintain infrastructure documentation, architecture diagrams, asset inventories, configuration baselines, and operational procedures.
• Implement and maintain infrastructure security controls, including IAM, access management, patch management, vulnerability remediation, encryption, logging, and firewall administration.
• Develop and maintain backup, disaster recovery, high availability, and business continuity solutions.
• Manage on-premises infrastructure, including Windows and Linux servers, virtualization platforms, storage, firewalls, switches, wireless infrastructure, and data center environments.
• Design, deploy, administer, and support AWS cloud infrastructure, including compute, networking, storage, identity, monitoring, backup, and security services.
• Optimize infrastructure and cloud costs through resource utilization reviews and capacity planning.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and operational tasks using scripting and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools.

Requirements
Educational Qualification:

• Bachelor's Degree or Higher National Diploma in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.

Professional Certifications:

• CompTIA Network+ or Security+.
• ITIL Foundation certification is an added advantage.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Associate or Professional).
• AWS Certified SysOps Administrator.
• Microsoft Certified (Azure Administrator), VMware, Linux, or equivalent certifications.
• CCNA or CCNP.

Experience:

• Experience supporting hybrid cloud infrastructure within financial services, fintech, banking, or other regulated industries is an added advantage.
• Hands-on experience managing AWS cloud infrastructure and enterprise on-premises environments.
• Minimum of 3–5 years of experience in Cloud, Network, Systems, or Infrastructure Engineering roles.

Professional Competencies:

• Ability to collaborate across Infrastructure, Security, Applications, Audit, and Business teams while driving continuous improvement.
• Experience administering Windows Server, Linux, Active Directory, virtualization platforms, storage, backup, and patch management.
• Strong knowledge of AWS services, including EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Route 53, ELB, Auto Scaling, AWS Backup, and Systems Manager.
• Knowledge of infrastructure automation using PowerShell, Bash, Python, Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar tools.
• Experience with infrastructure monitoring, capacity planning, incident response, performance tuning, and root cause analysis.
• Strong ownership mindset with attention to detail and the ability to work effectively under pressure.
• Strong understanding of infrastructure security, access controls, vulnerability remediation, hardening, encryption, logging, and compliance.
• Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong networking knowledge covering TCP/IP, routing, switching, VLANs, VPNs, DNS, DHCP, NAT, firewalls, wireless networks, and network security.

This Role Is Ideal For You If:

• You work well across cross-functional teams and can effectively manage multiple priorities.
• You thrive in highly available, mission-critical environments.
• You enjoy designing, managing, and optimizing cloud and hybrid infrastructure.
• You enjoy automating infrastructure and improving operational efficiency.
• You enjoy troubleshooting complex technical issues and improving system reliability.
• You are passionate about cloud technologies, networking, and infrastructure security.

You May Not Enjoy This Role If:

• You prefer purely application development over infrastructure and platform engineering.
• You are not interested in security, compliance, or operational governance.
• You are uncomfortable responding to production incidents or participating in on-call support.
• You dislike troubleshooting complex infrastructure and networking issues.
• You prefer highly repetitive work with limited opportunities for continuous improvement.