Job title: Senior DevOps Engineer (Fintech)
Company: Black Pen Recruitment
Job description: About the job Senior DevOps Engineer (Fintech)Our client is a technology company solving payments problems for businesses. Their mission is to help businesses in Africa become profitable, envied, and loved. They provide a suite of products to help businesses accept payments online and offline, manage their operations, and grow their business. Our client is driven by a commitment to excellence, innovation, and customer satisfaction.Role OverviewAs a Senior DevOps Engineer with our client, 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 their 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.Team and Reporting StructureThe 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.Job Type: Full Time/PermanentLocation: NigeriaWorkplace: HybridRequirements
- 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
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
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- 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
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Location: Lagos, Lagos State
Job date: Thu, 28 Aug 2025 23:55:20 GMT