Senior DevOps Engineer (Remote) at Paystack

Paystack is a technology company solving payments problems for ambitious businesses. Paystack's mission is to help merchants in Africa get paid by anyone, anywhere in the world. Over 9,000 of some of the best businesses in Nigeria use Paystack’s modern payments gateway, including MTN, Taxify, Domino’s Pizza, Smile Communications, Opera, God is Good Motors, Axa Mansard Insurance, and many others.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior DevOps Engineer

Location: Lagos (Remote)
Department: Devops
Reports To: Devops Lead

Role Summary

• As a Senior DevOps Engineer at Paystack, you will play a pivotal role in designing, implementing, and maintaining our cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and automation frameworks.
• You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to optimise our development and deployment processes, improve system reliability, and drive continuous improvement initiatives.
• The ideal candidate will have a strong background in DevOps practices, cloud technologies, automation tools, database management, networking, and a passion for solving complex technical challenges.

Key Responsibilities

• Owns projects end to end, often across teams.
• Design technical solutions that are scalable and maintainable
• Designs systems for high availability and fault tolerance.
• Builds end to end automation pipelines.
• Tackles ambiguous, high risk problems proactively.
• Introduces new ideas and simplifies complex systems.
• Designs secure systems, manages secrets and implements zero trust models.
• Participates in architectural evolution and software development activities.
• Help debug and diagnose issues that may arise in an intertwined distributed system environment.
• Owns CI/CD architecture, minimises downtime and ensures security
• Leads major incident response and postmortems

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in a DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) role.
• Deep Expertise with a variety of AWS services
• Experience with IAC and tools like Terraform, designing reusable modules and enforces standards
• Real world experience with Kubernetes at scale
• Experience writing scripts and automation using Python, Node.js, Bash, Golang
• Experience with networking concepts and protocols, including TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/S, VPNs, etc.
• Experience building tooling to reduce occurrences of errors and improve engineering productivity
• Experience with CI/CD tooling like ArgoCD, Github Actions, etc.
• Experience working with and monitoring and alerting tools like Prometheus and Grafana.
• Ability to clearly articulate, implement and document design decisions

Beneficial:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field might be beneficial but not required
• Experience in the fintech industry or with payment processing systems
• Knowledge of cybersecurity best practices and compliance requirements (e.g., PCI DSS)
• Experience with machine learning and data analytics.

Soft Skills:

• Impeccable problem-solving and analytical abilities
• Effective communication and collaboration skills
• High agency and the ability to work independently
• Adaptability and willingness to learn new technologies and tools

Team and Reporting Structure:

• The selected engineer will join a team of devops engineers and report directly to the lead devops engineer.
• You will work closely with other members of the department including members of the larger infrastructure and security teams and quite heavily with other product engineering teams.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Stripe Equity compensation
• Interest-free loan (up to 30% of salary)
• Full medical coverage
• MacBook Pro
• Hybrid working environment
• Work from Home budget
• Monthly internet stipend
• Monthly well-being stipend
• Generous personal leave policy and annual slow days
• Fully covered parental leave and sabbatical policies
• Smart, kind colleagues who’re invested in your growth.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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