Offer summary

Qualifications:

Experience with Kubernetes, Python, Strong knowledge of Terraform, CI/CD, Kubernetes.

Key responsabilities:

Improve and maintain infrastructure using Terraform

Automate and ensure reproducibility across environments

Ownership of projects from start to finish

Document infrastructure design and tooling usage

Drive long-term vision and align infrastructure

Identify improvements for faster delivery

Job description

Intermediate Site Reliability Engineer (SRE II)

Our Client is offering the right candidate a great opportunity to join a fast growing South African fintech that enables seamless and innovative end-to-end customer onboarding services that drive conversion rates, prevent fraud, reduce risk and costs. They provide automated and easy to implement solutions that fully onboard a new customer in under two minutes.

You'll work in a small, senior team that operates on trust and high collaboration. The team works remotely most of the time and occasionally comes into the office when more direct collaboration is required. You should be motivated to achieve operational excellence using automation tooling (e.g. Terraform) and enjoy keeping your technical skills current to allow you to contribute to architectural discussions. Naturally, you'll be exposed to many aspects of our business from day one. They will ensure that you have the tools and support to do great work, but you'll also have the freedom to try new things and learn.

Infrastructure & Software Stack

Kubernetes running on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
Prometheus, Grafana, Elastic, Kibana
CI/CD with Jenkins
Kong API Gateway
LogDNA
Falco
MongoDB Atlas
Microservice Architecture with Event Sourcing and CQRS
Containers running Kotlin, Python, Javascript (and a bit of Golang)

Your responsibilities will include:

Improving and maintaining our infrastructure using Terraform, which includes making effective use of public clouds (primarily Google Cloud and AWS) while considering:
Security
Latency & Availability
Maintainability
Scalability
Dependencies (including human)
Ensuring our infrastructure is automated and reproducible across environments
Leveraging Kubernetes in an effective manner to host our applications
Owning infrastructure projects from start to finish and driving them to completion within agreed timeframes
Documenting infrastructure design and how tooling should be used
Regularly considering the long-term vision for our infrastructure and our alignment to it
Making well-considered tradeoffs between short-term infrastructure requirements
and long-term objectives
Identifying potential improvements that could enable us to deliver faster without compromising operational objectives
Managing our identity platform and enabling enterprise user and system authentication and authorization using OAuth2
Writing, testing and executing change control plans for production changes with an eye for detail to spot potential issues
Having a good working understanding of how our systems operate and be able to debug production issues
Being part of our on-call rotation. When on-call, you will work on repaying technical debt and deal with operational incidents as and when they occur. This will require you to have or acquire a good general knowledge of production operations for technical support.
Being part of our security incident response team
Writing operational tooling to automate otherwise manual processes (e.g. Golang, Bash)
Performing high quality, ego-free code reviews for your colleagues as well as submitting your code for review by others and accepting their feedback generously
Taking ownership of our operational metrics and drive visibility, testing and improvement initiatives
Working effectively with the development team to plan and deploy required infrastructure changes or new capabilities ahead of time and unblocking the development team when unforeseen infrastructure blockers arise
Accepting feedback willingly and sharing your knowledge freely