Job Description

Job Summary A fintech company committed to making life simpler and more secure for African communities through innovative financial and technology solutions seeking a proactive and skilled Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to be the guardian of their systems' uptime, performance, and scalability. This is a unique opportunity to build the foundation of infrastructure excellence for a rapidly growing fintech venture in South Africa
Responsibilities:
Managing and monitoring infrastructure for ERP systems, applications, APIs, and databases.
Ensuring high availability and scalability of production environments.
Administering cloud environments and establishing CI/CD workflows for rapid deployments.
Setting up monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to track system health.
Implementing backup, recovery, and failover processes to ensure data integrity.
Hardening infrastructure security and enforcing access controls.
Diagnosing and resolving incidents efficiently with minimal downtime.
Minimum Requirements:
A tertiary qualification in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
A minimum of 3 years of experience in a System Administration, DevOps, or SRE role.
Strong experience with Linux-based production environments (preferably Ubuntu) and cloud hosting platforms such as AWS or Google Cloud.
Proficiency in scripting and automation using Bash, Python, or similar languages.
Experience with containerization (Docker) and CI/CD tools.
Familiarity with infrastructure as code tools like Terraform or Ansible.
Experience with database administration (PostgreSQL), networking, DNS, and load balancing.
Knowledge of web security best practices, including firewalls, SSL, and API rate limiting.
Strong experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting tools (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus).
Experience with fast recovery planning and disaster mitigation.
Excellent problem-solving, troubleshooting, and communication skills.
Benefits:

• Competitive salary based on experience (salary can potentially be more based on experience/skills)

IF you meet the above requirements and want to make a career-changing move, apply today by emailing your CV to
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