SeniorFull TimeENAfrica
Devops Engineer
Location: Lagos, Nigeria (Remote)
Department: Devops
Reports To: Devops Lead
Paystack’s mission is to power African ambition. Over 300K of some of the most renowned businesses in Nigeria, as well as a growing number of merchants in South Africa, Ghana, and Kenya use Paystack’s modern payments gateway. They include the likes of MTN, Burger King, UPS, AXA Mansard Insurance, FairMoney, PiggyVest, FilmHouse Cinemas, Smile Communications, Air Peace Airlines, Crocs, Under Armour, Richemont Lifestyle Group (RLG), and many others.
In just over 9 years, our growing team has introduced a steady cadence of innovation within the online payments landscape, such as automated recurring payments, the ability for customers to pay directly from their bank accounts, automated chargebacks, and much more. We’ve been acquired by Stripe and are doubling down on the mission to help build out Africa’s payments infrastructure.
We’re obsessed with building the best place to work on the continent while accelerating digital commerce across Africa and we need your help!
As a Senior DevOps Engineer at Paystack, you will play a pivotal role in designing, implementing, and maintaining our cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and automation frameworks. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to optimise our development and deployment processes, improve system reliability, and drive continuous improvement initiatives. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in DevOps practices, cloud technologies, automation tools, database management, networking, and a passion for solving complex technical challenges.
Owns projects end to end, often across teams.
Design technical solutions that are scalable and maintainable
Designs systems for high availability and fault tolerance.
Builds end to end automation pipelines.
Tackles ambiguous, high risk problems proactively.
Introduces new ideas and simplifies complex systems.
Designs secure systems, manages secrets and implements zero trust models.
Participates in architectural evolution and software development activities.
Help debug and diagnose issues that may arise in an intertwined distributed system environment.
Owns CI/CD architecture, minimises downtime and ensures security
Leads major incident response and postmortems
The selected engineer will join a team of devops engineers and report directly to the lead devops engineer. You will work closely with other members of the department including members of the larger infrastructure and security teams and quite heavily with other product engineering teams.
This position is based at our Nigeria office.
Paystack is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. We’re committed to providing employees with a work environment that is progressive and open-minded. Our employment philosophy is to hire the best people and empower them to do the best work of their lives. Employment decisions are based on business needs and individual merit without regard to race, color, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, nationality, marital status, gender or age.
