Vacancy

Job title: Site Reliability Engineer

Location: Remote

Employment Type: Full-time

About Block Markets Africa

Block Markets Africa is at the forefront of next-generation blockchain technology. As we continue our rapid expansion, we’re looking for a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) who is passionate about stability, scalability, and security. You’ll play a key role in ensuring our core platform—built on Azure, Kubernetes, and MS SQL—remains resilient, secure, and high-performing at scale.

We operate like a startup: fast-moving, collaborative, and innovation-focused. This is an opportunity to directly influence mission-critical systems within a well-funded, high-growth fintech environment.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Own and optimise the reliability, performance, and scalability of our systems hosted on Microsoft Azure, with a strong focus on Kubernetes and MS SQL Server.

• Lead efforts in monitoring, observability, and incident response, ensuring that systems are fault-tolerant and self-healing.

• Implement and maintain infrastructure-as-code across all environments using tools like Terraform or ARM Templates.

• Drive improvements to CI/CD pipelines, reducing time to deploy while increasing release stability.

• Collaborate with DevOps, backend, and security teams to create scalable architecture solutions and robust deployment strategies.

• Define and enforce operational best practices including automated backups, disaster recovery, and performance tuning for Kubernetes clusters and MS SQL databases.

• Proactively mitigate reliability risks and ensure fast recovery from failure scenarios.

• Participate in security posture improvement, including vulnerability scanning, patching, identity & access management, and alignment with standards like ISO 27001, NIST, or PCI-DSS.

• Perform root cause analysis, retrospectives, and continuous improvement on system outages and performance issues.

What You Should Have

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.

• 5+ years of experience in site reliability, DevOps, or cloud infrastructure roles.

• Strong hands-on experience with Azure, including Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure SQL, Azure DevOps, and other key services.

• Deep understanding of Kubernetes architecture, Helm charts, service mesh (e.g. Istio), and microservices orchestration.

• Expertise in managing and optimising MS SQL Server in production environments.

• Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as ELK, Datadog ,New Relic, Prometheus, or Grafana.

• Proficiency in scripting and automation using languages like Python, Bash, or PowerShell.

• Strong grasp of networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, firewalls, load balancing).

• Knowledge of cybersecurity best practices, including cloud security, secrets management, least privilege access, and threat detection.

• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD tools like Terraform, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, etc.

• Strong debugging, performance tuning, and troubleshooting skills.

• Bonus: Experience working in regulated environments with PCI / ISO27001 / NIST frameworks.

Why Block Markets Africa?

• High-Impact Work: Shape and maintain infrastructure for the future of finance.

• Startup Energy, Global Reach: Be part of a company growing rapidly across borders.

• Collaborative Culture: Work alongside builders, thinkers, and innovators.

• Work-Life Harmony: We promote balance, autonomy, and flexibility.

What We’ll Offer in Return

• Competitive full-time salary with remote work flexibility.

• Extensive mentorship and upskilling opportunities.

• Fast-track career growth in a promote-from-within culture.

• A seat at the table in one of Africa’s fastest-growing fintech companies.

How to Apply

Send your resume and a brief introduction to hr@bma.network