Senior DevOps Engineer

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.