Senior Systems Architect at Alan & Grant

Job Title: Senior Systems Architect

Date Posted: Friday the 23th of July.

Expiry Date: N/A

About Our Client

Our client is a Nigerian multinational company headquartered in Lagos that creates, showcases and aggregates African contents online.

Your Job Description

  • Architect our self-hosted cloud platform: networking, compute, storage, orchestration, monitoring, and security.
  • Define and document our multi-tenant cloud architecture, including:
    • User/resource isolation
    • Billing-aware provisioning
    • VM lifecycle management
    • Self-service controls
  • Choose the core stack: from hypervisor to orchestration tools (Proxmox vs OpenStack, Ansible vs Terraform, ZFS vs Ceph).
  • Set and enforce infrastructure policies and SLAs (uptime, backups, failover, incident response).
  • Lead hardware/software integration in local data centers (rack design, KVM over IP, remote management).
  • Manage the infra team — delegate tasks, review designs, mentor engineers.
  • Define secure access and monitoring strategies (e.g., central logging, Zero Trust access, real-time alerting).

The Job Requirements

  • 6–10+ years experience in infrastructure architecture or systems engineering leadership.
  • Proven experience building or scaling private cloud environments or hosted platforms.
  • Strong knowledge of:
    • Hypervisors: Proxmox, KVM, VMware
    • Storage Systems: Ceph, ZFS, GlusterFS
    • Linux Systems: Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS
    • Networking: VLANs, routing, BGP, firewalls, VPNs, TLS
  • Deep experience with automation and orchestration tools (Ansible, Terraform, PXE, booting, IPMI).
  • Confident leading system design discussions, risk assessments, and long-term roadmap planning.

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