DevOps Engineer

LekkeSlaap; Cape Town; Hybrid; ZAR 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading accommodation booking platform in Cape Town is looking for an Infrastructure Engineer to design and enhance their cloud and on-prem infrastructure. The role involves automation, incident management, and collaboration with teams to ensure system reliability. Candidates should have strong Linux and Docker skills and experience with Infrastructure-as-Code. The position offers a hybrid working model with flexible hours and various employee benefits.

Benefits

Flexible start times

Free lunch on in-office days

Medical Aid contributions

Retirement Annuity fund contribution

Flexible leave policy with extra days off

Digital nomad month

Learning and development budget

Qualifications

• 3-5+ years of experience in systems, infrastructure, or reliability engineering.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred).
• Experience with observability tools (Datadog, Grafana, etc.).

Responsibilities

• Own design, implementation, and enhancement of on-prem and cloud infrastructure.
• Maintain high system availability and optimise latency.
• Drive CI/CD automation and consistent deployment workflows.

Skills

Linux administration

Docker

Infrastructure-as-Code

Scripting & Terminal Fluency

Networking concepts

Security mindset

Problem-solving under pressure

Tools

Terraform

MySQL/MariaDB

Redis

Job 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.

• 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

• 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!