Does the challenge of building the rails for payroll and compliance infrastructure across Africa excite you?
Workpay is on a mission to help organizations in Africa manage and pay employees easily, legally, and compliantly. Whether for remote employees in Mali or a local team in Mozambique, Workpay’s tech tools ensure that payrolls, compliance, benefits, and payments arrive on time. With employees at the core of our work, you will join a team that cares deeply about people and inspires them to grow. 🥰
Background
Workpay’s core product is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform that enables businesses to manage and process employee leave, benefits, documents, payments, and payroll, and to pay their employees in a timely and compliant manner in different African countries. We also provide Employer of Record (EoR) services across the continent, enabling global organizations to quickly and efficiently engage employees in any African country without the cost, risk, and hassle of incorporation, contracting, and tax filing. Workpay handles that for them, and we plan to integrate these services into our evolving global SaaS platform.
Role Overview
We are looking for a highly experienced DevOps Engineering Consultant to join our team on a 6-month full-time consulting contract. You’ll work closely with our engineers to ensure best standards are in place for system security, scalability and uptime. You will fundamentally ensure end-to-end quality of the integration and deployment processes, and you will put in place the necessary processes and practices from which to build out a permanent DevOps team that attracts top talent.
Responsibilities
- Set up DevOps foundation and participate in building a cohesive and value aligned DevOps permanent team.
- Active driver for Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) based application development
- Maintain adherence to architectural standards/principles, global product-specific guidelines and usability design standards.
- Participate in the design of service automation in cloud towards Infrastructure-as-code and engineering of new cloud or on-premise technologies
- Central to obtaining and processing requirements in order to transform application delivery for cloud in an agile fashion
- Provide support and documentation to assist in sustaining projects during the transition to production.
- Resolve and act as escalation and coordination points for incidents and problems related to affected automation.
- Root cause analysis and improvement solutions.
- Performing audits and analysis of existing products for the purpose of ensuring proper configuration management and consistency.
Required Qualifications & Experience
- BBSC degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related subject.
- 5+ years in software development and 3+ years of experience in CI/CD or DevOps engineering.
- Substantial, extensive and demonstrated experience in various aspects of automation with cloud environments.
- Knowledge and/or experience on designing, developing, deploying, and CI/CD in a DevOps environment
- Experience with Docker containers and Kubernetes and other types of Microservices and Container technologies highly preferred
- Experience with application load balancing solutions for scaling
- Linux administration experience
- Well versed in internet architectures, including web, application, and database components
- Understanding of firewalls, NAT and packet filtering
- Strong skill set on integrating and operating Static and Dynamic Code Scans for security testing, OpenSource Code Scan with pipelines
- General Networking skills expected
- Clear and accurate written and verbal communication. Critical thinking and problem-solving skills. Good time-management skills
Added Advantages
- Experience with DevOps for HR/Payment SaaS tools
- Familiarity with Jira
Why Workpay?
- Competitive, incentive-based remuneration, health cover, and gym membership.
- Purpose driven work. We are building the rails for employment payments and compliance across Africa, helping drive economic growth and development.
- Career advancement through constant opportunities for learning and growth
- Working in a flexible, vibrant team environment with a flexible remote work policy. Work from home or from our fun, funky modern office in Westlands.
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