Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
Core
Ensuring availability, reliability, scalability, and performance of business-critical applications and infrastructure for a fintech platform serving under-banked individuals in Nigeria.
Role type
Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
Builds
Highly available and scalable cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and automation tools for mission-critical financial services.
Domain
Fintech / Cloud Infrastructure
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | infrastructure
Required skills
AWS services (EC2, ECS/EKS, RDS, Lambda, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, Azure DevOps), monitoring tools (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, New Relic, ELK Stack), Linux administration, scripting (Python, Bash, PowerShell), networking, DNS, load balancing, VPNs, security controls.
Preferred skills
AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS SysOps Administrator, Kubernetes Certifications (CKA/CKAD), HashiCorp Terraform Associate.
Technologies
AWS, Terraform, CloudFormation, Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, New Relic, ELK Stack, Python, Bash, PowerShell.
Responsibilities
Design, implement, and maintain highly available and scalable infrastructure; Monitor production systems and proactively identify performance bottlenecks; Manage incident response, root cause analysis (RCA), and problem management activities; Develop automation scripts and tools to improve operational efficiency; Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines; Manage cloud infrastructure across AWS and hybrid environments; Configure and maintain observability platforms including monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions; Define and track SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets; Support application deployments and release management processes; Perform capacity planning and disaster recovery testing; Ensure infrastructure and systems comply with security and regulatory requirements.
Seniority
Mid-Senior, hands-on IC