DevOps / SRE Engineer

About the role

We are strengthening our technical capabilities to improve the reliability of our mobile money and fintech platforms. The DevOps / SRE Engineer will ensure resilience, performance, and security of mission‑critical systems.

Key responsibilities

• Design, maintain, and optimise CI/CD pipelines for backend, middleware and API applications using tools such as GitLab CI, Jenkins, ArgoCD and Tekton.
• Build and operate full observability frameworks (metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, alerting) with Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, Elastic Stack and OpenTelemetry.
• Implement SRE best practices – define SLO/SLI, monitor SLA, manage error budgets, conduct blameless post‑mortems and capacity planning.
• Automate infrastructure as code with Terraform, Ansible and Helm, and ensure platform security through secret management, IAM and vulnerability monitoring.
• Provide Level 3 support for critical incidents, perform root‑cause analysis and drive continuous improvement to reduce MTTR.

Required profile

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering.
• 7+ years of experience in DevOps or SRE roles, preferably in mobile money, fintech or other highly regulated environments.
• Strong analytical mindset with a data‑driven approach to reliability.

Required skills

• Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and container orchestration (Kubernetes, OpenShift).
• CI/CD ecosystems: GitLab CI, Jenkins, ArgoCD, Tekton.
• Observability tooling: Prometheus, Thanos, Loki, Elastic Stack, OpenTelemetry, Tempo/Jaeger, Grafana.
• Infrastructure‑as‑code: Terraform, Ansible, Helm.
• SRE principles: SLO, SLI, error budgets, capacity planning.