DevOps Engineer
Tripco|Posted 5 days ago
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Role description
Please note this position requires strong on prem experience
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Description
🖥️ Design, build, and operate the core infrastructure across on-prem and cloud
🔒 Ensure security, reliability, and scalability of all systems supporting our e-commerce platform
⚙️ Automate workflows with CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure-as-Code principles
📊 Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimise applications, networks, and infrastructure
🤝 Collaborate with software engineers, QA, and specialist squads to enable seamless operations
💡 Own incident response, root-cause analysis, and post-mortems
📍 Hybrid in V&A Waterfront, Cape Town (2 days in-office)
Who we are at Tripco
LekkeSlaap is South Africa’s leading accommodation booking app known for its user-friendliness, exceptional customer experience, and extensive local accommodation options. Owned by Tripco, a travel technology company based in Cape Town, LekkeSlaap is dedicated to delivering innovative solutions and maintaining high standards in travel technology.
Responsibilities
Own design, implementation, and enhancement of on-prem and cloud infrastructure
Maintain high system availability, optimise latency, and ensure resilient networking
Safeguard systems via secrets management, access control, and container hardening
Provide observability through logging, metrics, tracing, and alerts
Drive CI/CD automation and consistent deployment workflows
Build internal tooling and self-service frameworks for engineering teams
Champion operational best practices: SLOs, error budgets, testing, disaster recovery.
Requirements
3–5+ years of experience in systems, infrastructure, or reliability engineering
Strong Linux administration skills and production Docker experience
Hands-on experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Ansible, or equivalent)
Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS preferred, GCP/Azure acceptable)
Experience with HashiCorp stack (Nomad, Consul, Vault) or equivalent stack
Familiarity with PHP, Python, C++, or Rust workloads
Observability tools (Datadog, Grafana, Loki, Sentry)
Scripting & Terminal Fluency: Confident working on the command line, with practical experience writing automation scripts (e.g., Bash, Python).
Databases & Caching: Hands-on operational experience with MySQL/MariaDB and Redis (management, backup/restore, replication, performance tuning, indexing).
Knowledge of networking concepts (DNS, HTTP, TLS, reverse proxies, load balancing)
Security-focused mindset with experience in secrets management and system hardening
Confident in incident management and problem-solving under pressure
Strong process orientation, documentation habits, and discipline
Comfortable working in a hybrid setup with at least two in-office days per week.
Nice to Haves
Experience with HashiCorp stack (Nomad, Consul, Vault)
Familiarity with PHP, Python, C++, or Rust workloads
Observability tools (Datadog, Grafana, Loki, Sentry)
E-commerce or travel sector experience
Benefits
Hybrid work setup (2 days in our office based in the beautiful Cape Town V&A Waterfront) – parking included
Flexible start times
Free lunch on in-office days
Discovery Medical Aid contributions & Vitality Health subscription.
Retirement Annuity fund contribution
Flexible leave policy with 20 days of annual leave
Get a half-day off every month (which adds up to 6 extra days!)
Digital nomad month (work from anywhere)
Showers on site
Travel vouchers and discounts
High-end laptops and workstation setup for both in-office and home
Team budget for learning, online courses, and developer conferences
Regular team events and more!
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About Tripco
What We Do
Tripco is a travel technology company based in Cape Town, South Africa. We build and own online travel platforms and brands, loved by thousands of customers every day.
The Tripco team is passionate about delivering the best travel experiences, enabled by technology and industry-leading customer service.
In 2013, Tripco launched LekkeSlaap.co.za, the easiest way to find and book accommodation in both Afrikaans and English. Since then, LekkeSlaap has become a household name, growing into South Africa’s largest local accommodation booking website.
At Tripco, we believe in making travel a transformative experience, offering innovation at its finest.
Our Culture
You'll be part of our close-knit Product & Engineering team, working on new products and exciting roadmap projects. You'll be contributing to all aspects of the development cycle from discovery to deployment and there is also an opportunity to be involved in other types of projects like data analytics and machine learning, or innovative solutions that require new technologies, we're supportive and open to your ideas and interests!
You'll also be an active and valued member of our wider company of 150+ people. We are hard-working, curious and ambitious, and are set out to reimagine the future of travel. We take great pride in providing the best experience to our customers.
We're based at the Waterfront, Cape Town in a modern, collaborative office space.
Our Stack
- We utilise Hashicorps' infrastructure ecosystem incorporating Terraform, Consul, Nomad
- We run PHP, MariaDB, Redis & Nginx on a multi-server stack
- We also use Python, C++, and Rust for some of our services
- We also utilise services and tools like AWS, Cloudflare, RabbitMQ, PubSub, Caddy, Traefik, Envoy
- We do continuous integration build processes with Docker, and GitHub Actions
- Potential to be involved in Machine Learning and Data Analytics projects
Why Work With Us
- Flexible hours and remote working hybrid model (2 days in office/week)
- Extensive budget to choose your own high-end laptop and workstation setup
- Cool Waterfront office with a chill room, table tennis, Jura coffee and a private balcony
- Great perks such as free daily lunch when in the office, free travel vouchers and discounts
- Contribution towards a Discovery medical aid & Vitality Health membership
- Lots of leave and digital nomad working available (work from anywhere, without taking leave)
- Dynamic, hard-working company culture. We take great pride in giving our customers the best service!
- Work alongside some of the brightest and the best Computer Science and Engineering graduates.
- Learn everything there is to know about cutting-edge e-Commerce, web dev and mobile dev.
- You will be encouraged to participate actively in business strategy and tactics.
- Full sponsorship of any local coding conferences/meetups/seminars you may wish to attend.
- Interact with 100+ non-engineers, such as writers, designers, marketers, etc
Our Hiring Process
- We adopt an informal process that varies from candidate to candidate.
- Usually, the process involves a couple of informal video calls, a simple web development task and finally an office visit to meet the P&E team and company directors.
Roles Available
- Full-Stack Software Engineer
- Systems Engineer
Perks at Tripco
Tech Stack
application and data
utilities
dev ops
business tool
