Our goal

To be the dominant digital-first wealth and asset management partner for the underserved African middle class and fast-growing African businesses. We empower over 3 million customers to build a savings and investment culture across different asset classes. Our customer base continues to expand and we are committed to ensuring that every interaction with our platform provides the best experience possible.

The role

Were looking for a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to help build maintain and scale the infrastructure powering work closely with our engineering team to improve reliability observability security and deployment processes across our systems.
Our infrastructure team specializes across four areas: Cloud Databases Platform and Observability. We run primarily on AWS with some workloads on GCP. For this role were particularly interested in someone who can raise the bar on observability helping us detect issues faster and resolve them with confidence.

What youll do

Generally members of the infrastructure team are able to do the following

• Design maintain and improve cloud infrastructure and internal platforms
• Improve system reliability scalability and performance across services
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows
• Implement monitoring logging alerting and observability systems
• Respond to incidents troubleshoot production issues and lead root cause analysis
• Automate operational tasks and infrastructure provisioning
• Work with engineering teams to improve service architecture and operational readiness
• Improve security posture access controls and infrastructure best practices
• Manage containerized workloads and orchestration platforms
• Maintain disaster recovery backup and high availability strategies

What were looking for

Required

• 4 years of experience in an SRE DevOps or Platform Engineering role running production systems
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS (compute networking IAM storage managed services)
• Deep expertise in observability designing meaningful metrics dashboards alerts and SLOs that actually catch problems before users do
• Hands-on experience with New Relic Grafana and Prometheus (or equivalent tooling)
• A track record of reducing MTTD and MTTR through better instrumentation alerting and incident response practices
• Proficiency with Docker and containerized workflows
• Solid scripting and automation skills (Python Bash Go or similar)
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform Pulumi or CloudFormation)
• Strong Linux fundamentals and networking knowledge
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• Comfort leading incident response and writing clear post-mortems

Nice to have

• Experience operating Kubernetes in production
• Exposure to GCP or multi-cloud environments
• Background in one of our specialization areas: Databases (Postgres MySQL Redis) Platform engineering or Cloud architecture
• Security-focused experience (IAM hardening secrets management compliance frameworks)
• Experience in fintech or other regulated high-availability environments

The people who succeed on this team

• People who are proactive and take ownership
• Engineers who automate before repeating manual work
• People who stay calm and methodical during incidents
• Engineers who care about clean systems and operational excellence
• Strong collaborators who work well across teams
• Curious builders who enjoy learning and improving systems continuously