Paystack is a technology company solving payments problems for ambitious businesses. Our mission is to help businesses in Africa become profitable, envied, and loved. Paystack builds technology to help Africa’s best businesses grow – from new startups, to market leaders launching new business models. . .
Read more about this company>>
Job Type: Full-Time
Job Field: Devops
Location: Africa, UAE (This position is based at our Nigeria office.)
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.
Essential Duties
- 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
What We Are Looking For
- 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
Compensation Package
- 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
How To Apply
Interested applicants should click on APPLY NOW to fill the provided form.
