Senior DevOps Engineer

About Quidax

Quidax is where crypto meets limitless possibilities. Were making digital asset access effortless for individuals businesses and fintechs in Africa. Our goal Providing real value for our customers while driving the future of Finance.

About the Role

Were looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to help scale secure and automate the infrastructure that powers Quidax. Youll be part of the team ensuring that millions of dollars in crypto transactions happen seamlessly every single day.
Youll work closely with our engineers to deploy services faster safer and smarter. This role is for someone whos obsessed with reliability loves automation and gets a kick out of making systems run smoother than yesterday.

If you can think creatively bring fresh ideas to the table and thrive in fast-moving high-stakes environments this is your kind of challenge.

What Youll Be Owning

Infrastructure & Reliability

• Manage and improve cloud infrastructure (AWS or similar).
• Design deploy and maintain scalable and secure services that support millions of transactions.
• Monitor system performance identify bottlenecks and optimize for speed and reliability.
• Manage database clusters (MySQL MongoDB Redis Elasticsearch) for performance and resilience.

Automation & CI/CD

• Design build and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines (Github Action GitLab Jenkins or similar).
• Manage infrastructure as code using Terraform Ansible or CloudFormation.
• Build deployment automation that minimizes downtime and reduces human error.
• Automate environment setup testing and release workflows.

Security & Observability

• Ensure systems are safe patched and secure against cyber threats.
• Implement monitoring and alerting using Prometheus Grafana or Datadog.
• Participate in on-call rotations and respond to production incidents.
• Collaborate with the Security and Compliance teams on audits and best practices.

Collaboration & Continuous Improvement

• Partner with Backend Frontend and Product teams to deliver scalable production-ready systems.
• Participate in architecture discussions and release planning.
• Support your teammates with reviews documentation and knowledge-sharing.
• Contribute to team processes retrospectives and roadmap discussions.

Biggest Challenges Youll Tackle

• Keeping up with product speed while ensuring infra stability and uptime as well as incident ownership.
• Balancing automation with control fewer manual steps fewer mistakes.
• Managing infrastructure for both fiat and crypto systems in a single ecosystem.
• Supporting rapid scale while maintaining cost efficiency.

What Were Looking For

Must-haves

• 6 years of DevOps SRE or Infrastructure experience.
• Proficiency with AWS (or equivalent cloud provider).
• Strong understanding of Linux-based systems and networking.
• Hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker Kubernetes).
• Proven expertise in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform Ansible).
• Solid scripting skills (Bash Python or Go).
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Working knowledge of database management (MySQL PostgreSQL MongoDB Redis or Elasticsearch).
• Ability to troubleshoot complex issues across systems and applications.
• A passion for clean reliable and scalable infrastructure.

Nice-to-haves

• Crypto or fintech experience.
• Familiarity with blockchain node infrastructure.
• Experience implementing observability systems (Grafana Stack Datadog etc).
• Understanding of zero-downtime deployments and blue-green rollouts.
• Familiarity with Java Springboot Framework Typescript Ruby on Rails.

Reporting Line

Youll report to the Engineering Manager (DevOps) and work closely with the Backend Product and Security teams to ensure a smooth and secure deployment experience across all Quidax services.

Why Quidax

At Quidax were building the future of finance in Africa through crypto. Youll have the freedom to innovate the space to lead and the backing to build something that truly scales. If youre ready to build an engineering org that delivers excellence at scale lets talk.

Whats In It For YouWhen you join Quidax youre not just taking a job youre jumping into a community thats bold remote-first and building for the future. Heres what you get:

Fair Pay Ownership

• Competitive salary based on your skills and experience; annual merit-based reviews to keep your growth visible and rewarded

Growth Thats Real

• Annual performance reviews clear promotion cycles; recognition for great work from shoutouts to milestone rewards
• Personal development fund (courses books conferences); study leave so you can keep learning

Work That Works For You

• Fully remote forever flexible working hours

Time Off That Respects Life

• Unlimited paid time off Nigerian national holidays
• Parental sick compassionate and life event leave; we show up for you

Connection That Feels Real

• Quarterly remote team hangouts annual offsite; interest-based communities (SIGs)
• Regular engagement surveys; your voice matters
• Health & life coverage in select locations

TL;DR:Youll do meaningful work grow fast and have the flexibility to live your best life all while building something big with people who care.

Lets build the future of finance together

How to apply:

We love seeing applications that speak directly to us. Its easy for your application to get lost in a sea of generic ones especially when were sorting through dozens of them. So make yours stand out! Show us your personality your passion and why youre the perfect fit. We appreciate the effort it takes to create something thoughtful and unique.

If you make it through to the next stage youll likely get a pre-interview questionnaire. Think of it as a chance to show us how youd approach the challenges we face here at Quidax. Imagine youre already part of the team and walk us through your thought process as you tackle the problems we throw your way.

What our hiring process looks like

Its a three-step process.

1. First Connect (with the Recruiter) - 30 minsLets talk about your experience your story and how you might fit at Quidax.

2. Technical Chat - 120 minsTalk us through your real wins show us how you solve problems live with the team.

3. Culture Chat - 45 mins

You get the change to meet members of our leadership team and yall can talk shop.

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