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Senior DevOps Engineer (Africa)

Talent hackers

Role overview

Qualifications

  • 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

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain observability, alerting, and triage systems
  • Improve system reliability and incident response
  • Establish and manage multi-stage environments (dev, staging, prod)
  • Strengthen infrastructure security across IAM, networking, and secrets management

About the company

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Talent hackers

Staffing & Recruiting

Scale your operations effectively with our repository of trained and loyal international remote talent. Talent hackers is trusted by top executives & business owners as a reliable & cost-effective global remote hiring partner. Companies at every stage are facing the same problems: - High payroll costs - Wasted time & energy through the hiring process - Inconsistency in quality labor - Limited talent pool It's hard enough to justify labor costs, it's even harder to find quality talent. Most of the time you end up rolling your sleeves, wasting your valuable time, and attempting the following: - Source talent from freelancing sites - Attempt to hire in international jurisdictions - Or worse, do it yourself. Save yourself the headache. Let our team at Talent hackers save you from: - Wasting your time, instead of focusing on strategy & growth - Inconsistent results from freelance platforms - Misclassification risk through non-compliance with international employment laws. How we operate: - We source, vet, and onboard trained full-time "hackers" to scale your operations - We have the experience, we handle the ENTIRE interview process. You meet your new full-time "hacker" on day 1. Focus on the more important stuff. - Expect your "hacker" to start within 2-3 weeks after we begin our search. - We handle payroll, benefits, local compliance, HR services, & provide ongoing support - We have an unlimited ideal match guarantee. So, if your "hacker" leaves or you need a change, we will replace them at anytime, forever. At Talent Hackers, we offer affordability, reliability, & solutions. We believe every company should be able to higher quality talent without the burden of rising salaries & benefits. Discover why top corporations & industry leaders are sourcing from Nigeria over the Philippines. Learn more on our website.

Company details

IndustryStaffing & Recruiting
Company size2 - 10

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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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