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Skilled Professionals, Ready to Make an Impact
Andela’s rigorous standards ensure every engineer is ready to hit the ground running—accelerating your timelines and delivering results from the go.
At Andela, excellence isn't optional—it's the standard. That’s why every candidate must pass a rigorous, multi-stage evaluation designed to surface world-class talent. Our process includes real-world technical assessments that validate coding expertise, alongside tailored evaluations of written and spoken English proficiency. We also measure essential soft skills and cultural fit, ensuring each professional is not only technically strong but ready to collaborate seamlessly with your team from day one.
1. Qualifications
Qualification criteria:
- A minimum of 4 years of professional experience in a Cloud Engineer role (excluding intern and volunteer experience).
- A bachelor's degree in a technology-related field or equivalent work experience.
- Excellent spoken and written English communication skills.
- Solid understanding of cloud computing concepts, architectures, and best practices, with hands-on experience in deploying and managing cloud services.
- Proficiency in working with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud, including knowledge of their core services and capabilities.
- Scripting and automation skills using languages like Python, Bash, or PowerShell for infrastructure automation and management tasks.
- Strong problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and a results-oriented mindset.
- A commitment to continuous learning and adapting to evolving cloud technologies.
2. Skill Validation
This qualification assessment tests the candidate's knowledge of the Cloud Engineering. It's composed of Q&A and practical challenges that evaluate the candidate theoretical knowledge and hands-on skills. Each challenge focuses on a subject area and covers concepts, features, and real-world situations.
A candidate is approved in this test if all challenge level cut-off scores at met.
Cloud Architecture
Evaluates the candidate's knowledge of Cloud computing concepts and applications. The questions were designed as platform-agnostic and are applicable for any Cloud provider. It covers scalability, reliability, fault-tolerance, security, and cloud adoption.
Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD)
Evaluates the candidate's knowledge of Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD). It touches upon GitHub, Jenkins, AWS and Docker, among other tools and concepts in the DevOps ecosystem.
Networking for Cloud
Tests fundamental candidate knowledge of the OSI model and other foundational networking concepts. Questions are based on Cisco's CCNA: Introduction to Networking (ITN) course and summary articles from Wikipedia articles on relevant concepts.
3. Technical Interview
This assessment evaluates the candidate's expertise in Cloud Engineering through a real-time challenge. It's designed to be used as an interactive session with the technical screener.
During the assessment, candidates will tackle a hands-on problem tailored to the core principles of Cloud Computing. Their solution will be verified by our experienced interviewers step in to assess the overall efficiency of the candidate's solution.
Assessment Outline:
- Designing a Serverless Back-end Solution:
- This challenge evaluates Cloud Engineers by simulating a real-world scenario. They are tasked with designing the cloud components of a serverless application that interacts with external services. Candidates must consider the scenario details, identify the necessary cloud services and create a simple diagram to address the designed solution.
Simon M.
DevOps Engineer
Experience:
10+ years
Availability:
Full-time
Simon is a passionate Senior DevOps Engineer with 11 years of IT industry experience. Proficient in Terraform, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Docker, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Java, Golang (Go), and Linux, he excels in driving seamless cloud solutions, infrastructure automation, and scalable containerization. He has hands-on experience in GCP and microservices architecture, with a proven track record in architecting robust cloud-based solutions.
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Kenechukwu U.
Back-End Engineer
Experience:
10+ years
Availability:
Full-time
As a Lead Software Engineer, I engage in system design and architectural efforts, prioritizing tasks for building scalable solutions aligned with business objectives. I'm also interested in open source development, analytics, and gaining useful insights from data. Competence in Java, Typescript, AWS, BI reporting and machine learning.
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Enyinnaya A.
DevOps Engineer
Experience:
10+ years
Availability:
Full-time
Enyinnaya is a versatile and self-driven Senior Cloud Engineer, with over 8 years of successful professional IT work/project experience in solving complex problems in distributed services, cloud-native technologies, enterprise systems, and products. In the last 5 years, Enyinnaya has been specializing in DevOps practices by quickly adapting to new technologies and tool stacks, he has solid expertise in; extensive Linux administration, Kubernetes development and deployment, Bash and Python scripting and DevOps automation, CI/CD processes, Helm and microservices delivery.
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Godfrey T.
DevOps Engineer
Experience:
9 years
Availability:
Full-time
Experienced System Engineer, DevOps Engineer, Cloud Architect, and Digital Transformation Specialist committed to helping organizations achieve their Digital Transformation goals by leveraging Cloud technologies. Proficient in network design and Linux system administration. Experienced in using Cloud Technologies in the design and implementation of infrastructure architecture to meet business and technical requirements.
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Emmanuel D.
Full-Stack Engineer
Experience:
6 years
Availability:
Full-time
Emmanuel is a seasoned Full-Stack Engineer, boasting over 6 years of experience crafting user-friendly web applications and essential business API services. His expertise spans a wide array of technologies, including JavaScript, Node.js, HTML/CSS, React Native, Vue.js, React, PHP, PostgreSQL, and more.
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MySQL
JavaScript
Node.js
React.js
TypeScript
Git
Heroku
HTML
Redis
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Frequently Asked Questions
Where can I hire Software Developers?
Andela is a premier global talent marketplace that connects companies with highly skilled Software Developers from around the world. With a rigorous certification process and focus on quality talent, Andela provides access to a diverse pool of experienced Software Developers ready to join your team.
How are Andela Software Developers different?
Andela Software Developers stand out for their exceptional technical skills, work ethic, and cultural fit. Through an AI-driven platform, rigorous certification process, and professional matchers, Andela ensures companies are connected to highly skilled professionals who are not only proficient in coding but also possess strong problem-solving abilities, excellent communication skills, and a passion for continuous learning. Andela’s developers are also trained in remote collaboration and agile methodologies, enabling seamless integration into your team.
How long does it take to hire Software Developers through Andela?
Andela’s streamlined hiring process ensures you can access top Software Developers quickly. Once you submit your hiring request, Andela typically provides you with a curated list of pre-qualified candidates within seconds and you can hire within 48 hours – after conducting interviews and making a decision. With Andela’s global talent pool, you can scale your front-end team rapidly, without compromising on quality.
What are the minimum requirements of all Andela Software Developers?
A minimum of 4 years of professional experience in a Software Engineer role (excluding intern and volunteer experience).
A bachelor's degree in a technology-related field or equivalent work experience.
Excellent spoken and written English communication skills. Solid understanding of coding concepts, architectures, and best practices, with hands-on experience in deploying and managing services.
Strong problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and a results-oriented mindset.
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