Intermediate DevOps Engineer (Fintech)

Our client is a technology company solving payments problems for businesses. Their mission is to help businesses in Africa become profitable, envied, and loved. They provide a suite of products to help businesses accept payments online and offline, manage their operations, and grow their business. Our client is driven by a commitment to excellence, innovation, and customer satisfaction.

 

Role Overview

As an Intermediate Devops Engineer with our client, you will contribute to building and maintaining the cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipeline and internal tooling that support our products and engineering teams. You will work closely with engineers to ensure smooth deployments, stable environments and reliable operations. This role is ideal for someone with a solid foundation in DevOps practices who is eager to deepen their expertise in cloud platforms, infrastructure as code, automation within a fast paced collaborative environment.

  

Team and Reporting Structure

The selected engineer will join a team of devops engineers and report directly to the lead devops engineer. You will work closely with other members of the department including members of the larger infrastructure and security teams and quite heavily with other product engineering teams.

  

Job Type: Full Time/Permanent

Location: Nigeria

Workplace: Hybrid

  

Requirements

• 2-5 years of experience in a DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) role. Experience with a variety of AWS services
• Ability to write and maintain IAC and tools like Terraform
• Real world experience with Kubernetes.
• Understanding of networking concepts and protocols, including TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/S, VPNs, etc.
• Experience building tooling to reduce occurrences of errors and improve engineering productivity
• Experience with CI/CD tooling like ArgoCD, Github Actions, etc.
• Experience working with and monitoring and alerting tools like Prometheus and Grafana.
• Ability to communicate clearly and document work.

  

Beneficial

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field might be beneficial but not required
• Experience in the fintech industry or with payment processing systems
• Knowledge of cybersecurity best practices and compliance requirements (e.g., PCI DSS)

  

Soft Skills

• Good problem-solving and analytical abilities
• Effective communication and collaboration skills
• Adaptability and willingness to learn new technologies and tools

  

Responsibilities

• Takes ownership of tasks and services.
• Solves clearly scoped problems.
• Implements known patterns established within the team and industry.
• Follow security best practices.
• Help debug and diagnose issues that may arise within systems.
• Implements CI/CD pipelines.
• Participates in on call rotation

  

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Equity compensation
• Interest-free loan (up to 30% of salary)
• Full medical coverage
• MacBook Pro
• Hybrid working environment
• Work from Home budget
• Monthly internet stipend
• Monthly well-being stipend
• Generous personal leave policy and annual slow days
• Fully covered parental leave and sabbatical policies
• Smart, kind colleagues who’re invested in your growth