DevOps Team Lead

Cross Border Talents; South Africa; Hybrid; ZAR 600 000 - 850 000; Full time

Job summary

A fast-growing non-profit organization in South Africa is seeking a DevOps Team Lead to coordinate a team and ensure secure infrastructure development. Candidates should have a minimum of 5 years of experience in DevOps, preferably in managing a team. Experience with Kubernetes and AWS tools is essential. This role offers growth opportunities, unlimited holidays, and a focus on personal development. Join a mission to support young women globally and make a difference in a dynamic work environment.

Benefits

Personal development budget

Unlimited holidays

Growth opportunities

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of experience working as a DevOps.
• Experience managing a team of DevOps Engineers is a plus.
• Currently based in Portugal or South Africa.

Responsibilities

• Coordinating the DevOps team's tasks with different projects.
• Ensuring secure infrastructure development.
• Leading and developing team members.
• Documenting work for future reference.
• Working in an agile way.
• Maintaining the framework needed for software.
• Optimizing the flow from build to release.

Skills

DevOps experience

Kubernetes

Cloud tools (AWS, RDS, EC2, SQS)

Terraform

English fluency

Tools

Terraform

Grafana

Prometheus

Kibana

GitHub Actions

Job description

Cross Border Talents is actively looking for a DevOps Team Lead to join our client. Our client is a fast-growing non‑profit social enterprise with office locations in Europe and Africa. The organization builds digital platforms that support young women. It has a fast‑paced, informal, and friendly work environment.

Responsibilities

• Coordinating the DevOps team’s tasks with the different teams’ projects.
• Ensuring the infrastructure that is developed is secure (information security & personal data).
• Leading and developing your team members as well as yourself.
• Documenting your work to make it understandable for future use.
• Working in an agile way.
• Building, configuring, and maintaining the framework needed by the client’s software (automating the creation, maintenance, and monitoring of the framework).
• Setting up, testing, and maintaining the frameworks/tools that the client uses to support software development and launch.
• Being responsible for optimizing the flow of work from build to release.

Requirements

• Minimum 5 years of experience working as a DevOps.
• Experience managing a team of DevOps Engineers is a plus.
• Previous experience with Kubernetes container orchestration (using K8s within the AWS ecosystem).
• Experience working with cloud tools (AWS, RDS, EC2, SQS).
• Experience with Terraform, Grafana, Prometheus, Kibana, and GitHub Actions is a plus.
• Currently based in Portugal or South Africa.
• Fluent in English.

Benefits

• Personal development budget
• Unlimited holidays
• Growth opportunities
• Being part of a product to help shape while our client grows; you will be able to leave your mark on how things are done.