DevOps Engineer

Africa is on the cusp of an economic revolution. While Internet- and banking-penetration have come late to Africa, a youth-driven tidal wave of change is sweeping across the continent. As a result, both global businesses and local champions are in a race to unlock its potential.      

In partnership with Rapyd, the fastest growing Fintech-as-a-Service platform, and Multichoice, the largest entertainment platform on the African continent, we are building the payments platform that is capable of meeting the ambitions of the next generation. 

This is truly the Moment for Africa.

We are building the core engineering team that will build the payment network for Africa in Dubai. We are looking for dynamic, impactful, and *hands-on* leaders to scale our network and platform across our top-priority African markets. 

Responsibilities:

• Build state of the art solutions for our production platform
• Work with other R&D teams on mutual projects
• Solve diverse complex problems of high scale
• Support multi-region environments & provide support to worldwide-based teams
• Everything as a code approach: Run our infrastructure with Ansible, Terraform, and Kubernetes
• Build and maintain tools for automation, deployment, monitoring, and operations
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues in our dev, test, and production environment
• Conduct periodic on-call duties and emergency response

• At least 3+ years of experience in DevOps.
• At least 2+ experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm
• At least 3+ years of experience in Coding languages – Python/JavaScript/Bash, or similar
• At least 3+ years of experience with cloud providers such as AWS / Google Cloud / Azure, or similar
• At least 3+ years of experience with CI/CD tools such as/GitLab/Jenkins/CircleCI/team city, or similar
• At least 3+ years of experience with IAC principles and tools such as Terraform
• Experience with configuration management such as Ansible/Chef/Puppet, or similar
• Experience with Alerting & Monitoring systems such as DataDog / Splunk / New Relic / Prometheus, or similar
• Experience with Cloud Networking and Security – Connectivity, Load-balancer, DNS
• High Analytical & Troubleshooting skills – ability to solve complex problems

Advantages:

• OS – Linux
• Experience with ArgoCD
• SCM – Git/bitbucket/gitlab
• Knowledge of different database technologies (MySQL administration, MongoDB)
• Working with SAAS production environments.
• BSC in Computer Science or related technical certifications