DevOPS Engineer

JOB PROFILE: 

DEVOPS ENGINEER (SOUTH AFRICA)

ABOUT KARRI

Karri is one of South Africa’s most highly rated Apps.  We are a rapidly growing tech business, and an authorised Financial Services Provider, building innovative and awesome payments tech for the education paradigm. 

The Karri mobile app allows parents to pay their school quickly and easily for their child's events and other educational expenses. Karri helps schools and teachers by streamlining the cash collection process, eliminating time-consuming and costly collection methods, and improving safety.  Karri is also rolling out new youth card products which allow kids to make cashless payments on and off the school campus while giving parents control and oversight of their spend in the Karri App.

JOB DESCRIPTION

The Engineering Team, led by the CTO, is an integral part of the company, owning a broad scope of functions. These are New Product Development, Enhancing Existing Platforms, Products and Services, Day to Day Platform and Product Support, Infrastructure Support, Technology Research and Development to keep on building world class systems.

Karri is looking for an exceptional senior-level Engineer to join the team, comprising of Elixir Engineers, React Native App Engineers, Quality Assurance Engineer, DevOPS Engineer and Product Owner.

Reporting to the CTO, the DevOPS Engineer must have a solid track record of working on highly available platforms and distributed services and have a strong work ethic.

 The ideal candidate is also someone who is disciplined, reliable, has heightened attention to detail, enjoys working under pressure and thrives in an ever-changing environment.

Your responsibilities will include:

Core

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Design, build, and manage infrastructure using Terraform, ensuring infrastructure consistency, scalability, and security across environments.
• AWS Management: Oversee and manage cloud infrastructure on Amazon Web Services (AWS), including provisioning, monitoring, scaling, and security.
• CI/CD Pipeline: Build, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines to streamline development, testing, and deployment processes.
• Terraform Cloud: Leverage Terraform Cloud to manage infrastructure as code at scale, ensuring seamless collaboration, governance, and compliance.
• Monitoring & Alerting: Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions to ensure the performance, security, and reliability of our infrastructure.
• Automation: Develop and implement automated solutions to enhance operational efficiency, including provisioning, scaling, and deploying services.
• Collaboration: Work closely with Software Engineers, QA teams, and other stakeholders to ensure smooth delivery of applications.
• Security: Ensure infrastructure is compliant with security best practices, including implementing security policies, audits, and automated guardrails.
• Documentation: Maintain up-to-date documentation of infrastructure, policies, and procedures.

Traits we are looking for

• Technical Excellence
• Communication skills
• Planning and Organizing
• Intellectually curious
• Innovative
• Problem solving
• Accountability
• Ability to translate business needs into technical requirements and designs

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

• AWS Expertise: In-depth knowledge and hands-on experience with Amazon Web Services (ECS, Fargate, Route 53, EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, IAM, etc.).
• Terraform Proficiency: Experience designing, deploying, and managing infrastructure using Terraform.
• Terraform Cloud: Experience using Terraform Cloud for managing infrastructure across multiple environments.
• CI/CD: Familiarity with setting up and managing continuous integration/continuous delivery pipelines through BitBucket.
• Automation & Scripting: Proficient in scripting (e.g., Python, Bash) and automation tools to streamline operational tasks.
• Monitoring & Logging: Experience with monitoring and logging tools (e.g., CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana).
• Version Control: Strong understanding of version control systems like Git.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
• 3 years of experience in a DevOps role or similar position.
• AWS certification (e.g., AWS Certified DevOps Engineer or AWS Certified Solutions Architect) is a plus.

WHY JOIN KARRI

Karri is a mission-driven company, striving for financial inclusion and youth financial literacy through accessible digital financial services for schools and parents.  This role presents a unique opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies and solutions, offering plentiful opportunities for professional growth and advancement as well as opportunities to learn about the latest developments in finance and technology. 

Karri fosters a collaborative and entrepreneurial culture, where employees are encouraged to share ideas and work together to create solutions.  You’ll work with a talented and diverse team of professionals that is revolutionising the way financial services are delivered. You’ll contribute to creating solutions that have a tangible impact on customers' lives.

Karri’s environment is dynamic and fast-paced with a continual stream of exciting and rewarding opportunities and challenges.