DevOps Engineer – Platform

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🕒 August 26

🇿🇦 South Africa – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

⛑ DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

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Lulalend

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51 - 200 employees

💸 Finance

💳 Fintech

🤝 B2B

Finance • Fintech • B2B

Lulalend, now rebranded as Lula, is a fintech company that provides fast and simple business funding solutions tailored for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in South Africa. It offers a Revolving Capital Facility and a Capital Advance to address businesses' immediate financial needs, with loans available up to R5 million and disbursement in as little as 24 hours. In addition to its funding services, Lula provides a business banking solution that includes features like a cash flow manager and seamless integration with Mastercard and Access Bank. Innovative financial technology is at the core of Lula's mission to empower SMEs by providing easy access to working capital and efficient business banking services.

📋 Description

• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines for rapid, safe deployment • Own the infrastructure layer on Azure, including environments, configuration, secrets, and networking • Manage containerised workloads using Docker and Azure managed services • Set up and maintain observability through logging, metrics, and alerting • Diagnose real production issues using observability systems • Execute database and schema migrations safely with effective rollback paths • Work alongside the Data Engineering function on the pod’s data platform • Document systems and processes so production teams can inherit them • Shape the operational foundations and implementation of the innovation pod

🎯 Requirements

• 3–5 years of experience in a similar role • Production experience owning CI/CD pipelines end-to-end • Hands-on experience with Docker and Azure managed services • Practical observability skills, including diagnosing live production issues • Experience running database or schema migrations in production, including handling failures • Comfortable working in a small team without a large platform function • Advantageous: Infrastructure as Code experience with Terraform, Pulumi, or Bicep • Advantageous: Fintech or other regulated-environment experience • Advantageous: Exposure to modern data tooling such as dbt or Snowflake • Advantageous: Interest in agentic or AI-assisted development workflows • Habit of documenting decisions through ADRs, runbooks, and incident write-ups

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote within one location • Full-time employment