Senior DevSecOps Engineer- Card Payments
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Job Location:
Cape Town - South Africa
Yearly Salary:
ZAR 1560000 - 2388000
Posted on:
8 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Job Description
THE OPPORTUNITY THAT AWAITS YOU
Are you the kind of engineer who gets excited about building rock-solid infrastructure automating everything that moves and making sure critical systems never go down
Were looking for a Senior DevSecOps Engineer who thrives on running secure scalable cloud platforms and ensuring payment systems operate flawlessly. Youll be joining the Card Rails team helping power the infrastructure that processes card-present and card-not-present transactions across Africa.
This team owns the orchestration behind payment gateways acquirer integrations and the infrastructure that keeps transactions flowing securely and reliably.
If you love automation cloud infrastructure observability and solving real-world reliability problems youll feel right at home here.
WHAT YOU WILL BE BUILDING
- Infrastructure that powers high-volume card payment processing
- Automation pipelines that enable fast reliable deployments
- Secure infrastructure for card-present (POS) and card-not-present (eCommerce) transactions
- Monitoring and observability systems that keep payment platforms healthy
- Resilient cloud infrastructure using AWS Terraform and container platforms
- Messaging and event-driven infrastructure supporting transaction processing
YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Youll work on mission-critical infrastructure that processes millions of transactions
- Youll help design and operate secure scalable cloud infrastructure
- Youll build and maintain Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD pipelines
- Youll implement observability monitoring and alerting for payment systems
- Youll collaborate with engineering teams to improve deployment automation and platform reliability
- Youll participate in on-call rotations supporting production infrastructure
OUR REQUIRED EXPERTISE
Technical Expertise
- 810 years of DevOps Platform Engineering or Infrastructure experience
- Strong experience with AWS cloud infrastructure
- Infrastructure as Code expertise (Terraform preferred)
- CI/CD pipeline experience (GitLab CI/CD Jenkins or similar)
- Container and orchestration technologies (Docker Nomad Kubernetes)
- Monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus Grafana ELK stack or similar)
- Experience working with messaging or event-driven systems (RabbitMQ Kafka SQS SNS)
- Experience operating high-availability production systems
- Experience in payments fintech card processing or transaction-heavy platforms is highly advantageous
Problem-Solving & Ownership
- Able to design and operate secure scalable infrastructure for critical systems
- Takes ownership of infrastructure reliability and continuous improvement
- Comfortable troubleshooting complex distributed systems in production
- Passionate about automation and reducing operational toil
Collaboration& Communication
- Works effectively in a remote-first engineering environment
- Communicates clearly with engineering teams SREs and architects
- Comfortable collaborating across platform security and product teams
YOUR REWARD
- Working Model: Remote-first (South Africa based)
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