DevOps Engineer Lagos

Payzeep provides a range of financial services to individuals, merchants, banks, and government agencies. Our services are designed to help businesses and organizations streamline their payment processing and collection operations, providing a convenient and secure way for customers to pay for goods and services.

PayZeep has positioned itself to solve these problems by providing innovative products and services to help address the challenges of financial inclusion, cost of financial service delivery, and financial literacy. We provide secure and efficient payment processing and collection services across all payment channels to help increase financial service depth and touch the lives of people even at the grassroot. We are  recruiting to fill the position below:

 Job Title: DevOps Engineer

Locations: Lagos

Employment Type: Full-time Position Summary

The DevOps Engineer builds and maintains PayZeep's CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure and deployment automation, ensuring reliable, secure and scalable platform delivery. The DevOps Engineer is responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining secure, scalable, and highly available infrastructure that supports PayZeep digital financial products and services.

Design, build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation. Manage cloud infrastructure (provisioning, scaling, cost optimization). Implement monitoring, alerting and logging for platform reliability. Support incident response and on-call rotation for production systems. Implement infrastructure-as-code and configuration-management practices. Collaborate with Engineering and Security on secure deployment practices. Support application deployment activities and ensure seamless release management across development, staging, and production environments. Collaborate with Software Engineering, Product, Security, and Infrastructure teams to improve development and operational workflows. Ensure system availability, performance, resilience, and disaster recovery readiness of production environments. Drive cloud cost optimization initiatives and infrastructure performance improvements. Lead incident management, root cause analysis, and post-incident reviews for critical platform issues. Drive cloud cost optimization initiatives and infrastructure performance improvements. Enforce security best practices throughout the software development lifecycle (DevSecOps). Automate operational processes and repetitive tasks to improve efficiency and reduce manual intervention. Maintain technical documentation, architecture diagrams, and deployment procedures.

Qualifications 

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (required). Cloud certification (AWS/Azure/GCP) is an advantage.

Total Relevant Experience: 5–8 years Fintech / Financial Services Experience: 6+ years supporting infrastructure for fintech, banking or transaction-processing systems preferred

Strong experience with CI/CD tooling (e.g. Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions) Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible) Containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) Strong troubleshooting skills in high-availability production environments Proficiency in Linux and Windows server administration. Experience supporting microservices-based architecture. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. Excellent communication and documentation abilities. High attention to detail and commitment to operational excellence.

Regulatory Considerations (Nigeria):

Ensures infrastructure and deployment practices align with PCI-DSS and the CBN Risk-Based Cybersecurity Framework. Supports data-residency and NDPA-compliant infrastructure configuration.

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