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DevOps Engineer

Citiq Prepaid |Posted 22 days ago

Skills and experience

Role:DevOps engineer
Experience in role:5+ years
Language proficiency:English
Must-have skills:
    Docker
    Linux
    Go

Location and salary

Remote policy:Hybrid
Location of job:City of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Visa requirements:No specific requirements
Visa sponsorship:Unable to sponsor visa
Employment type:Permanent

Role description

Are you passionate about automation, cloud infrastructure, and building resilient systems? We’re looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer to join our software development team and help us scale and secure our infrastructure—both on-premises and in the cloud.

As a key member of our team, you’ll be responsible for:

Maintaining and optimizing our Linux-based infrastructure (Ubuntu, RHEL, CentOS, etc.).

Managing containerized environments with Docker, and exploring orchestration tools like Kubernetes or Nomad.

Building automation scripts using Terraform, Ansible, Bash, Python, or Go.

Implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools like GitHub Actions or GitLab CI/CD.

Monitoring system performance using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, or Loki.

Enhancing security and uptime—ensuring 99.9%+ infrastructure availability.

Supporting software development teams with streamlined deployment processes.

What You Bring

6+ years in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Linux Systems Administration.

Solid experience with cloud and on-prem environments.

Proven proficiency in automation and infrastructure-as-code.

Deep understanding of networking, including DNS, VPNs, Firewalls, and Load Balancers.

A proactive mindset with a passion for continuous improvement and problem-solving.

Your Success Will Be Measured By:

Achieving 95%+ deployment success with minimal rollbacks.

Resolving 90%+ of infrastructure issues within SLA timeframes.

Maintaining 100% monitoring visibility and robust alerting.

Driving 80%+ automation coverage for infrastructure tasks.

What Sets You Apart

You’re a team player with strong integrity, attention to detail, and a natural curiosity for learning. You’re goal-oriented, logical, well-organized, and thrive in dynamic environments where you can make a real impact.

Why Join Us?

We offer a forward-thinking, tech-driven environment where your expertise is valued and your growth is supported. If you're excited by cutting-edge tools, real responsibility, and the opportunity to build scalable solutions from the ground up, we’d love to meet you.

About Citiq Prepaid

51-200 employees

Citiq Prepaid is South Africa’s largest private prepaid sub-meter and vending system provider. We supply landlords across South Africa with a prepaid electricity and water payment solution for their tenants.

We are constantly innovating - we have developed all our systems in-house to provide a national vending footprint for tenants as well as enabling clients (landlords, property owners, developers and managing agents as well as tenants) to access detailed reports to track and manage utility consumption.

We are proud of our in-house software development team that builds solutions that rapidly and directly respond to market needs. For us software development is a key enabler for relevance and efficiency in this space.

We are a small team of dedicated developers, working on projects based on market and company requirements.

Perks at Citiq Prepaid

Fantastic Team
Massive range of scope: Front-end, Back-end, DevOps, Smart Prepaid Meters, etc
Centrally located in vibey Green Point
Cape Town based, great Mountain View
Sit-stand Desks
Flexible Working Hours
No Dress Code
No crummy old legacy systems

Tech Stack

application and data

Amazon S3
Amazon S3
Python
Python
MySQL
MySQL
Redis
Redis
Go
Go
Bootstrap
Bootstrap
Google App Engine
Google App Engine
nginx
nginx
TypeScript
TypeScript
Angular
Angular
Flutter
Flutter

utilities

Google Analytics
Google Analytics

dev ops

Ansible
Ansible
GitHub
GitHub
Pingdom
Pingdom
Git
Git
TeamCity
TeamCity
Prometheus
Prometheus
Sentry
Sentry
Cloudflare
Cloudflare
VS Code
VS Code

business tool

Google Apps
Google Apps
Slack
Slack

Office Photos

our offices :-)
another angle on the office...
some of our current projects
view across Green Point on a cloudy day

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