Staff Cloud Engineer - New Markets at Yoco

The role:

• Working at one of the fastest-growing fintech’s in Africa means you’ll be solving some unique challenges that we’re faced with. We’re looking for a talented engineer who’s excited by the opportunity to contribute to something meaningful and to work within a team of highly skilled engineers delivering impactful solutions.
• Automation is key in being able to achieve the scale we aim to operate on and ensuring we are agile means we’re not only able to scale quickly but we’re also able to adapt and constantly iterate on our systems.

Key Responsibilities:

• Planning out infrastructure projects in new markets and understanding the trade-offs around cost, maintenance and interoperability with our current architecture.
• Keep our systems running - lead the troubleshooting and debugging of performance problems and architecture bottlenecks.
• Work alongside a broader team of world-class engineers, sharing knowledge and collaborating on various projects.
• Automate common functionality to empower various teams to manage their infrastructure needs independently.
• Implement, monitor and scale systems that support large amounts of data and requests with a very high percentage of availability across physical, virtual and cloud based infrastructure.
• Work cross-functionally to understand the requirements for architecting infrastructure according to scale and high volumes of data.
• Maintain and improve our various systems and infrastructure such as CI/CD, monitoring, logging and observability.
• Continue to establish and refine our best practices for security, disaster recovery, migration and expansion of business systems infrastructure.

Key Requirements:

• At least 8+ years of production-level experience in designing, building and maintaining public cloud-based infrastructure (AWS, Azure or GCP)
• At least 6+ years experience as a Senior member of a team.
• Extensive production-level experience deploying software in a service-based and event-driven architecture.
• Expert in debugging issues, identifying faults and enhancing logging of software.
• Are experienced in IT infrastructure and systems security, cloud or network systems management, and business continuity.
• Have expert knowledge of infrastructure-as-code tooling, configuration management and container orchestration software. Ansible, Puppet, Kubernetes (EKS or AKS) and Hashicorp tooling (Terraform, Nomad, Consul, Vault, Packer etc.)
• Are experienced in writing code in languages such as Python, Ruby, Go etc.
• Take lead on various projects and work collaboratively across the entire organisation.
• Are transparent, articulate and driven to succeed.
• Have a passion for enabling teams of software engineers.
• Are willing and able to do regular traveling to our new markets as a part of your role