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Lead DevOps Engineer

Mama Money|Posted 18 days ago

Skills and experience

Role:DevOps engineer
Other roles:Cloud engineer, Site reliability engineer (SRE)
Experience in role:5+ years
Language proficiency:English
Must-have skills:
    AWS
    Kubernetes
    Terraform

Location and salary

Remote policy:Remote
Location of job:South Africa
Visa requirements:Authorised to work in South Africa With status of citizen/passport holder, permanent resident or work permit/visa holder
Visa sponsorship:Unable to sponsor visa
Employment type:Permanent

Role description

We're seeking a Lead DevOps Engineer to spearhead our automation, reliability, and performance initiatives. You'll lead our high-impact DevOps team, working closely with Development and Data teams to ensure our systems are scalable, secure, and developer-friendly. As a technical leader, you'll set the direction for our DevOps practices, supporting faster and safer deployments while maintaining 99.9% uptime.

In this role, you'll own and evolve our AWS cloud infrastructure architecture, drive automation across the software development lifecycle, and implement robust monitoring and incident response processes. You'll be responsible for managing cloud costs, optimizing infrastructure spend, and staying ahead of industry trends to continuously improve our systems and operations.

We're looking for a seasoned professional with 5+ years of DevOps experience, including 1-2 years in a technical leadership role. You should have deep expertise in AWS, Kubernetes (especially EKS), and infrastructure automation tools like Terraform. Strong scripting skills, proficiency in modern CI/CD tools, and excellent collaboration abilities are essential. Join us to make a significant impact on our Mama Money platform and cloud services, championing best practices in infrastructure-as-code, observability, and CI/CD.

About Mama Money

51-200 employees

What we do

Mama Money provides an efficient, safe, and low-cost way for our customers to send money from South Africa to their home countries across Africa, Asia, Europe, and the UK. Rather than looking at profit-maximization, we focus on helping our customers to send money home at a socially fair price. The money is being used by their families to pay for food, medicine, housing, and education and if less money gets stuck with the money transfer operator, more money arrives in the pockets of people who really need it. It's really that simple: lower fees will lead to better nutrition, better health care, better accommodation, and ultimately, a brighter future - one that prioritises financial inclusion.

While our social business ethics form our core identity, our technology forms the basis of our operations. We are a profitable, growing fintech company providing a service that people really need and we’re looking for like-minded people to join us.

Find out more about Mama Money here.

Why Work For Us

If you're looking to join a small team that drives capabilities for an ethical business, while working in an awesome agile environment - then this is for you! You’re not just going to work, you’re going to be making a positive impact on the lives of thousands of customers that need to send more money home. We are looking for eager learners, conscientious workers, and thoughtful, kind, supportive humans to join our team.

Our Culture

Think casual, we’re not here to be fancy or dress up with all the bells and whistles. We’re here to get the job done. Our aim is to create a caring and authentic environment where people can trust each other and work together to deliver impactful solutions. That word - together, it’s important to us. We can do great things alone, but even greater things together. We spend a lot of time working - so we believe we should enjoy it. We want you to do exceptional work and have fun, but at the end of the day go live your best life, rest, and recharge.

Our Engineering Processes

The engineering environment is agile and we encourage teams to innovate and improve their process to better fit their context. We aim to build small, shippable pieces of work that deliver value early and often. We have fun, try our best, aim to build the best product in the business, experiment, have a positive impact on the world around us, give back, and keep learning.

Our Hiring Process

We like to move quickly and not waste your time with unnecessary steps. After a quick intro chat, we ask you to complete an assessment (that was created in-house), and once returned and reviewed, we will set up a technical interview for you to discuss your solution and also get to know some of the team better. Following that, we like to set up a quick chat with you and one of the Co-Founders and that's pretty much it!

Perks at Mama Money

Catered daily lunch
Helping peeps
Fully loaded kitchen to make your own breakfast
Remote work
Learning & Development budget
Weekly exercise classes
Flexible hours
Great coffee
A holistic wellness employment program that is available for you and your family
Unlimited Leave with a 20 day minimum requirement for each annual leave cycle

Tech Stack

application and data

Amazon S3
Amazon S3
Amazon EC2
Amazon EC2
Amazon VPC
Amazon VPC
Javascript
Javascript
Python
Python
MySQL
MySQL
Java
Java
Angular
Angular
MariaDB
MariaDB
Amazon Lambda
Amazon Lambda
Amazon Cognito
Amazon Cognito
Amazon API Gateway
Amazon API Gateway

utilities

Google Analytics
Google Analytics
Tableau
Tableau

dev ops

Ansible
Ansible
GitHub
GitHub
Git
Git
Chef
Chef
Docker
Docker
Maven
Maven
Kubernetes
Kubernetes
Prometheus
Prometheus
Bash
Bash

business tool

Google Apps
Google Apps
Slack
Slack
Trello
Trello
JIRA
JIRA
Confluence
Confluence

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