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Site Reliability Engineer
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Johannesburg, Gauteng
Permanent
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Posted 29 August 2025

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Job Description

A fintech company committed to making life simpler and more secure for African communities through innovative financial and technology solutions seeking a proactive and skilled Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to be the guardian of their systems' uptime, performance, and scalability. This is a unique opportunity to build the foundation of infrastructure excellence for a rapidly growing fintech venture in South Africa

Responsibilities: 

  • Managing and monitoring infrastructure for ERP systems, applications, APIs, and databases.

  • Ensuring high availability and scalability of production environments.

  • Administering cloud environments and establishing CI/CD workflows for rapid deployments.

  • Setting up monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to track system health.

  • Implementing backup, recovery, and failover processes to ensure data integrity.

  • Hardening infrastructure security and enforcing access controls.

  • Diagnosing and resolving incidents efficiently with minimal downtime.


Minimum Requirements:

  • A tertiary qualification in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.

  • A minimum of 3 years of experience in a System Administration, DevOps, or SRE role.

  • Strong experience with Linux-based production environments (preferably Ubuntu) and cloud hosting platforms such as AWS or Google Cloud.

  • Proficiency in scripting and automation using Bash, Python, or similar languages.

  • Experience with containerization (Docker) and CI/CD tools.

  • Familiarity with infrastructure as code tools like Terraform or Ansible.

  • Experience with database administration (PostgreSQL), networking, DNS, and load balancing.

  • Knowledge of web security best practices, including firewalls, SSL, and API rate limiting.

  • Strong experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting tools (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus).

  • Experience with fast recovery planning and disaster mitigation.

  • Excellent problem-solving, troubleshooting, and communication skills.


Benefits:

  • Competitive salary based on experience (salary can potentially be more based on experience/skills)

IF you meet the above requirements and want to make a career-changing move, apply today by emailing your CV to [email protected]


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