Cloud Network and Infrastructure Engineer
Renmoney · Lagos
Who We Are
We’re a passionate team determined to challenge the status quo and make financial inclusion count for the millions of under-banked individuals and small business owners in Nigeria. We provide loans, savings, and fixed deposit solutions to our customers. Our vision is to be the most convenient lending company, delivering outstanding service experience.
The Role
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.
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.
What You Will Do
- Design, deploy, administer, and support AWS cloud infrastructure, including compute, networking, storage, identity, monitoring, backup, and security services.
- Manage on-premises infrastructure, including Windows and Linux servers, virtualization platforms, storage, firewalls, switches, wireless infrastructure, and data center environments.
- Configure and maintain secure hybrid connectivity between AWS and on-premises environments using VPN, Direct Connect, routing, DNS, load balancing, and network segmentation.
- Monitor infrastructure performance, availability, capacity, and security using appropriate monitoring and alerting tools.
- Support business-critical applications through proactive incident management, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis.
- 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.
- Automate infrastructure provisioning and operational tasks using scripting and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools.
- Maintain infrastructure documentation, architecture diagrams, asset inventories, configuration baselines, and operational procedures.
- Participate in change management, incident management, problem management, audit activities, and compliance remediation.
- Optimize infrastructure and cloud costs through resource utilization reviews and capacity planning.
- Collaborate with Security, Applications, Database, Service Desk, and Business teams to deliver reliable infrastructure services.
Requirements
What You Bring
Educational Qualification
- Bachelor's degree or Higher National Diploma in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.
Professional Certifications
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Associate or Professional).
- AWS Certified SysOps Administrator.
- CCNA or CCNP.
- CompTIA Network+ or Security+.
- Microsoft Certified (Azure Administrator), VMware, Linux, or equivalent certifications.
- ITIL Foundation certification is an added advantage.
Experience
- Minimum of 3–5 years of experience in Cloud, Network, Systems, or Infrastructure Engineering roles.
- Hands-on experience managing AWS cloud infrastructure and enterprise on-premises environments.
- Experience supporting hybrid cloud infrastructure within financial services, fintech, banking, or other regulated industries is an added advantage.
Professional Competencies
- Strong knowledge of AWS services, including EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Route 53, ELB, Auto Scaling, AWS Backup, and Systems Manager.
- Strong networking knowledge covering TCP/IP, routing, switching, VLANs, VPNs, DNS, DHCP, NAT, firewalls, wireless networks, and network security.
- Experience administering Windows Server, Linux, Active Directory, virtualization platforms, storage, backup, and patch management.
- Knowledge of infrastructure automation using PowerShell, Bash, Python, Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar tools.
- Strong understanding of infrastructure security, access controls, vulnerability remediation, hardening, encryption, logging, and compliance.
- Experience with infrastructure monitoring, capacity planning, incident response, performance tuning, and root cause analysis.
- Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
- Strong ownership mindset with attention to detail and the ability to work effectively under pressure.
- Ability to collaborate across Infrastructure, Security, Applications, Audit, and Business teams while driving continuous improvement.
This Role Is Ideal For You If:
- You enjoy designing, managing, and optimizing cloud and hybrid infrastructure.
- You are passionate about cloud technologies, networking, and infrastructure security.
- You enjoy troubleshooting complex technical issues and improving system reliability.
- You thrive in highly available, mission-critical environments.
- You enjoy automating infrastructure and improving operational efficiency.
- You work well across cross-functional teams and can effectively manage multiple priorities.
You May Not Enjoy This Role If:
- You prefer purely application development over infrastructure and platform engineering.
- You are uncomfortable responding to production incidents or participating in on-call support.
- You dislike troubleshooting complex infrastructure and networking issues.
- You are not interested in security, compliance, or operational governance.
- You prefer highly repetitive work with limited opportunities for continuous improvement.
Benefits
What's In It For You
- Opportunity to build and manage enterprise-grade cloud and hybrid infrastructure in a leading fintech organization.
- Hands-on experience with modern AWS technologies, automation tools, and enterprise networking solutions.
- Exposure to large-scale infrastructure modernization and cloud transformation initiatives.
- Opportunity to collaborate with Security, Product, Engineering, and Operations teams on business-critical platforms.
- Continuous learning, professional certifications, and career development opportunities.
- Competitive compensation and the opportunity to solve complex, real-world technology challenges.