Senior DevOps Engineer (Africa)

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