DevOps & Platform Engineer

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a DevOps & Platform Engineer based in South Africa.

This role is an early and influential opportunity within a focused innovation environment at a fast-growing fintech.

• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines that enable rapid, reliable, and safe deployments into production.
• Own the Azure infrastructure layer, including environments, configuration, secrets management, and networking.
• Manage containerised workloads using Docker and Azure-managed services, ensuring reliable operation and deployment.
• Establish and maintain production observability through effective logging, metrics, and alerting.
• Monitor production systems and use observability data to diagnose, troubleshoot, and resolve live incidents before they become significant business issues.
• Execute database and schema migrations safely, including designing rollback strategies that can be relied upon when deployments or migrations fail.
• Work closely with the Data Engineering function to support and evolve the data platform underpinning the innovation pod.
• Help establish deployment, infrastructure, and operational practices that allow development teams to move quickly without compromising reliability.
• Document infrastructure, operational decisions, and processes clearly so that production teams can confidently take ownership of the systems you build.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of platform reliability, deployment safety, and engineering workflows within a small, highly collaborative team.

• 3–5 years of professional experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or a closely related role.
• Proven production experience owning CI/CD pipelines end to end, from implementation through ongoing optimisation and troubleshooting.
• Strong hands-on experience with Docker and Azure-managed services.
• Practical observability expertise, including logging, metrics, alerting, and diagnosing live production incidents rather than simply configuring dashboards.
• Experience managing database or schema migrations in production, including handling failures and implementing effective rollback strategies.
• Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure, deployment practices, configuration management, and production reliability.
• Comfortable working in a small team where there is no large platform function to provide ready-made solutions or extensive operational support.
• Ability to work autonomously while collaborating closely with platform, data, engineering, and product stakeholders.
• Curious, solutions-oriented mindset with a pragmatic approach to solving infrastructure and operational challenges.
• Strong sense of ownership and accountability, with a focus on enabling teams to deliver quickly without sacrificing safety or reliability.
• Infrastructure as Code experience with Terraform, Pulumi, or Bicep is advantageous.
• Experience working in fintech or another regulated environment is a plus.
• Exposure to modern data technologies such as dbt or Snowflake is beneficial.
• Interest in agentic or AI-assisted development workflows is advantageous.
• A strong documentation habit, including experience creating Architecture Decision Records (ADRs), runbooks, incident reports, or similar operational documentation.

• Remote working opportunity within South Africa.
• Full-time position within a fast-growing, technology-driven fintech environment.
• Significant influence over the operational and platform foundations of an early-stage innovation function.
• Opportunity to work closely with experienced platform and data engineering specialists.
• High degree of ownership and autonomy in shaping implementation approaches and engineering practices.
• Collaborative culture focused on curiosity, diverse perspectives, ambitious execution, and meaningful impact.
• Opportunity to solve challenging production and infrastructure problems in a business-critical environment.
• Exposure to modern cloud, containerisation, data, observability, and AI-assisted engineering technologies.
• Environment that values practical solutions and enables fast delivery without unnecessary bureaucracy.
• Opportunity to contribute directly to technology that supports South African small and medium-sized businesses.