Senior DevOps Engineer - Orchestration

Tech Job Spec - DevOps Engineer (Orchestration)

Senior DevOps Engineer - Orchestration

Location: Remote first. Head Office: Cape Town, South Africa; with offices in Johannesburg, Mauritius and Nairobi, Kenya.

Department: Engineering - Card Rails

Company: Peach Payments

About Peach Payments Peach Payments is a cutting-edge fintech company shaping the future of digital payments across Africa. We empower businesses of all sizes-from startups to enterprise merchants-by providing a secure, scalable, and seamless payments infrastructure.

Team Mission: Card Rails is a POD within the Card Processing Tribe. We build and maintain the Card Gateway services and integrate with acquiring banks, the Card Gateway infrastructure, Acquirer connectivity, monitoring and alerting, with the goal of providing reliable, compliant, and secure card payment processing that is cost effective for the following transactions:

• Card Not Present CNP Ecommerce Transactions.
• Card Present (CP): Instore Transactions.

This role aims to implement DevOps principles and practices within Peach Payments' engineering teams by offering training, documentation, and direct, hands-on expertise. The DevOps Engineer will be responsible for the entire lifecycle of our infrastructure, from design through the development process and into production.

A DevOps Engineer at Peach Payments is responsible for developing and maintaining infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud services. The role involves close collaboration with development teams to ensure reliable deployment of software, continuous integration, and delivery processes.

You will be working alongside other DevOps engineers, SRE engineers, and Architects with oversight over many services and tools.

1. Enhance the efficiency and reliability of our development pipeline.
2. Foster a culture of automation and continuous improvement.
3. Improve system performance, scalability, and apply best practice.
4. Reduce the lead time for changes and the mean time to recovery.

• Tech Stack: Java 17, Spring Boot microservices; AWS Lambda, Serverless, multi-AZ with Terraform IaC.
• Containers & Discovery: Nomad clusters Docker/containerd with Consul service discovery and mesh.
• CI/CD & Automation: Git, GitLab Pipelines; configuration as code using Ansible and Packer.
• Data & Messaging: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, RabbitMQ.
• Security: HashiCorp Vault with dynamic secrets rotation.
• Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, distributed tracing, Sentry, FusionReactor, logz.io.

• Design, implement, and manage infrastructure as code using tools like Terraform.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI/CD.
• Manage cloud infrastructure (AWS) and ensure high availability and scalability.
• Implement observability solutions including logging, monitoring, and alerting.
• Automate repetitive tasks to reduce toil and improve system reliability.
• Collaborate with development teams to integrate and optimize applications.
• Participate in on-call rotations for adhoc tasks.
• Document processes and best practices for infrastructure and deployment.

• Proficiency with infrastructure as code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Experience with configuration management tools (Ansible, Puppet, Chef).
• Strong understanding of CI/CD principles and tools (GitLab CI, Jenkins).
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred, GCP, Azure).
• Knowledge of containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, Datadog).
• Familiarity with event-driven technologies (Kafka, SQS, SNS).

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 10 years of experience in DevOps, Systems Engineering, or related roles.
• Experience in a fintech or payments industry.
• Knowledge of a scripting language (Python, Bash, etc).
• Understanding of network and security principles (PCI, ISO27001, SOC2).
• Familiarity with Agile and DevOps methodologies.

• Problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Strong communication and teamwork abilities.
• Proactive mindset with a focus on continuous improvement.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks, with little oversight.

• Impact: Work on mission-critical payments infrastructure processing millions of transactions.
• Growth: Be part of a fast-growing company expanding across Africa.
• Culture: Join a high-performance, diverse, and empathetic team focused on respect for people and merchant success.
• Flexibility: Remote-first hybrid working - work from anywhere while staying connected to a world-class team.
• Benefits: Benefits include a generous annual and life leave allocation, market-related salaries, owning a piece of the Peach pie through VSOP and more.

Be part of our journey to redefine digital payments in Africa. At Peach Payments we value diversity and are committed to inclusion across race, gender, age, religion, identity, and experiences.