Senior DevOps Engineer

Department: Devops

Reports To: Devops Lead

Paystack’s mission is to power African ambition. Over 300K of some of the most renowned businesses in Nigeria, as well as a growing number of merchants in South Africa, Ghana, and Kenya use Paystack’s modern payments gateway. They include the likes of MTN, Burger King, UPS, AXA Mansard Insurance, FairMoney, PiggyVest, FilmHouse Cinemas, Smile Communications, Air Peace Airlines, Crocs, Under Armour, Richemont Lifestyle Group (RLG), and many others.

In just over 9 years, our growing team has introduced a steady cadence of innovation within the online payments landscape, such as automated recurring payments, the ability for customers to pay directly from their bank accounts, automated chargebacks, and much more. We’ve been acquired by Stripe and are doubling down on the mission to help build out Africa’s payments infrastructure.

We’re obsessed with building the best place to work on the continent while accelerating digital commerce across Africa and we need your help!

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.

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  Owns projects end to end, often across teams.

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  Design technical solutions that are scalable and maintainable

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  Designs systems for high availability and fault tolerance.

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  Builds end to end automation pipelines.

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  Tackles ambiguous, high risk problems proactively.

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  Introduces new ideas and simplifies complex systems.

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  Designs secure systems, manages secrets and implements zero trust models.

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  Participates in architectural evolution and software development activities.

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  Help debug and diagnose issues that may arise in an intertwined distributed system environment.

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  Owns CI/CD architecture, minimises downtime and ensures security

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  Leads major incident response and postmortems

• 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

• 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.

• 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

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.

This position is based at our Nigeria office.