Senior DevOps Engineer (Africa)

Job Summary:We are seeking a skilled Senior DevOps Engineer with strong AWS expertise to build and maintain secure, scalable infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, observability systems, and multi-stage environments in a startup setting. The ideal candidate will drive system reliability, optimize performance, support compliance initiatives, and collaborate across teams to improve deployment efficiency, security, and incident response.Core Tasks:Built and maintained observability, alerting, and triage systems Improve system reliability and incident responseEstablished and managed multi-stage environments (dev, staging, prod)Strengthened infrastructure security across IAM, networking, and secrets managementDesigned and implemented CI/CD pipelines with automated testing and deploymentSupported SOC 2 compliance by implementing monitoring, access controls, and audit-ready infrastructureDeveloped OAuth-based authentication and enabled client-specific SSO integrationsImproved performance and efficiency through infrastructure/ database optimization Enhanced job scheduling, alerting, and internal tooling to increase engineering efficiencyMust Haves:5+ years of DevOps experience (preferably in a startup environment)Demonstrated, hands on experience working with AWSKubernetes, Terraform, Docker, and CI/CDStrong (C-level) English communication skillsAbility to work full-time ESTNice to Have:Strong Python and React skillsAWS Glue, Athena, DynamoDB, AuroraEnergy trading / commodities background Originally posted on Himalayas