Senior DevOps Engineer, Fintech

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🕒 September 1, 2025

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Black Pen Recruitment

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1 - 10 employees

Founded 2012

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

📣 Marketing

Consulting • Logistics • Marketing

Black Pen Recruitment is a leading global recruitment agency specialized in FinTech talent acquisition. Based in Cape Town, the company focuses on sectors such as Cryptocurrency, Digital Banking, and Blockchain technology. With a commitment to find the best candidates across Africa and beyond, Black Pen Recruitment employs advanced headhunting techniques and a customer-centric approach to ensure a successful hiring experience for businesses of all sizes.

📋 Description

• Our client is a technology company solving payments problems for businesses. Their mission is to help businesses in Africa become profitable, envied, and loved. • As 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. • 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 • 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

🏖️ 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