Intermediate Site Reliability Engineer – Onsite, Cape Town

About the role

This is an exciting opportunity for a junior‑intermediate Site Reliability Engineer to join a leading payments fintech in South Africa. The role is based in Cape Town and offers a total compensation package of up to R840K per year.

Key responsibilities

• Build and improve reliability, observability, and automation for large‑scale cloud‑native payment systems processing millions of transactions daily.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to enhance deployment safety, monitoring, alerting, CI/CD automation, and infrastructure reliability across AWS environments.
• Gain hands‑on experience with modern SRE tools such as Terraform, Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, Loki, and distributed systems reliability practices.

Required profile

• BSc in Computer Science, Information Technology or a related field.
• At least 2 years of experience in software engineering with exposure to SRE, DevOps or platform engineering.
• Strong coding/scripting ability in Python or similar languages.
• Experience working with AWS and Infrastructure‑as‑Code tools (Terraform or CloudFormation).
• Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, ELK or DataDog.

Required skills

• Python
• AWS
• Terraform
• CloudFormation
• Grafana
• Prometheus
• ELK
• DataDog
• CI/CD pipelines
• Automation
• Distributed systems reliability