Senior Infrastructure / DevOps Engineer at Taskly Africa

TasklyAfrica is a remote staffing platform that connects skilled professionals in Africa with companies around the world. We place talent across customer service, software engineering, DevOps, healthcare, AI, and more.

As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer, you will design, build, and operate the cloud infrastructure that powers our AWS-hosted SaaS platform. You’ll own the reliability, scalability, security, and efficiency of our environments—enabling rapid, safe delivery of new features while maintaining the high level of trust our customers expect.

You will develop and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines, manage infrastructure-as-code deployments, and ensure consistent, repeatable provisioning across environments. You’ll monitor system performance, tune resources for cost and efficiency, and respond to production incidents with a blameless, problem-solving mindset.

As part of the engineering team you will collaborate closely with engineers, product managers, data scientists, and other cross functional team members to implement best practices around observability, reliability, and compliance requirements. You’ll propose architectural improvements, and drive initiatives that enhance system resilience and developer productivity.

Ultimately, you will serve as both a guardian of platform stability and a force multiplier for the engineering organization—building tools, automation, and processes that allow the company to scale confidently and securely.

Expectations

• Own and operate Client's AWS + Cloudflare infrastructure, ensuring reliability, security, and cost efficiency while supporting scalable, predictable deployments.
• Manage and evolve our Infrastructure-as-Code and CI/CD systems (Terraform, ECS, CircleCI) to improve automation, environment consistency, and developer velocity.
• Maintain and enhance observability through Prometheus, Grafana, and CloudWatch, delivering actionable dashboards, alerts, and SLO/SLA metrics.
• Lead operational readiness and incident response, including capacity planning, system maintenance, structured RCA, and reliability improvements.
• Drive security and compliance initiatives, including IAM hardening, secrets management, encryption, least-privilege access, and SOC 2 technical controls and documentation.
• Build tools, automation, and documentation that reduce manual work, increase system consistency, and support a scalable DevOps function.

Experience:

• 5+ years of DevOps/SRE experience (2+ years with production AWS), with strong expertise in EC2, ECS, RDS/Aurora, VPC, S3, IAM, and CloudWatch.
• Deep experience with Terraform and IaC, plus strong CI/CD skills (CircleCI preferred) and modern deployment patterns (blue/green, canary, feature flags).
• Strong containerization, automation, and scripting abilities (Docker, ECS, Ruby/Python/Go/Bash).
• Hands-on observability and Linux systems engineering experience, including performance tuning, monitoring, logging, and secure configuration.
• Security and compliance background, ideally in fintech or regulated environments (SOC 2, PCI, ISO 27001), with an understanding of IAM, encryption, secrets mgmt, and secure architecture.
• Proven incident leadership, collaboration skills, and a track record of reducing operational toil through automation.

Compensation is $2,500 - $5,000 monthly