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Senior DevOps Engineer (Africa)

Key Facts

Remote From: 
Full time
Senior (5-10 years)
English

Other Skills

  • Reliability
  • Collaboration
  • Communication

Roles & Responsibilities

  • 5+ years of DevOps experience (preferably in a startup environment)
  • Hands-on experience with AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker, and CI/CD
  • Strong English communication skills (C-level level)
  • Ability to work full-time EST

Requirements:

  • Built and maintained observability, alerting, and triage systems to improve incident response
  • Established and managed multi-stage environments (dev, staging, prod)
  • Designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines with automated testing and deployment
  • Supported SOC 2 compliance by implementing monitoring, access controls, and audit-ready infrastructure

Job description

Job Summary:

We are seeking a skilled Senior DevOps Engineer with strong AWS expertise to build and maintain secure, scalable infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, observability systems, and multi-stage environments in a startup setting. The ideal candidate will drive system reliability, optimize performance, support compliance initiatives, and collaborate across teams to improve deployment efficiency, security, and incident response.

Core Tasks:

  • Built and maintained observability, alerting, and triage systems 
  • Improve system reliability and incident response
  • Established and managed multi-stage environments (dev, staging, prod)
  • Strengthened infrastructure security across IAM, networking, and secrets management
  • Designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines with automated testing and deployment
  • Supported SOC 2 compliance by implementing monitoring, access controls, and audit-ready infrastructure
  • Developed OAuth-based authentication and enabled client-specific SSO integrations
  • Improved performance and efficiency through infrastructure/ database optimization 
  • Enhanced job scheduling, alerting, and internal tooling to increase engineering efficiency

Must Haves:

  • 5+ years of DevOps experience (preferably in a startup environment)
  • Demonstrated, hands on experience working with AWS
  • Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker, and CI/CD
  • Strong (C-level) English communication skills
  • Ability to work full-time EST

Nice to Have:

  • Strong Python and React skills
  • AWS Glue, Athena, DynamoDB, Aurora
  • Energy trading / commodities background

 

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