Senior DevOps Engineer (Africa)

Job Summary: We are seeking a skilled Senior DevOps Engineer with strong AWS expertise to build and maintain secure, scalable infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, observability systems, and multi-stage environments in a startup setting. The ideal candidate will drive system reliability, optimize performance, support compliance initiatives, and collaborate across teams to improve deployment efficiency, security, and incident response. Core Tasks: Built and maintained observability, alerting, and triage systems Improve system reliability and incident response Established and managed multi-stage environments (dev, staging, prod) Strengthened infrastructure security across IAM, networking, and secrets management Designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines with automated testing and deployment Supported SOC 2 compliance by implementing monitoring, access controls, and audit-ready infrastructure Developed OAuth-based authentication and enabled client-specific SSO integrations Improved performance and efficiency through infrastructure/ database optimization Enhanced job scheduling, alerting, and internal tooling to increase engineering efficiency Must Haves : 5+ years of DevOps experience (preferably in a startup environment) Demonstrated, hands on experience working with AWS Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker, and CI/CD Strong (C-level) English communication skills Ability to work full-time EST Nice to Have: Strong Python and React skills AWS Glue, Athena, DynamoDB, Aurora Energy trading / commodities background