Site Reliability Engineer

Moniepoint Group; South Africa; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Culture

Learning & development

Competitive compensation

Job summary

Moniepoint Inc. is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to ensure our systems run smoothly while engineering solutions to improve visibility, reduce toil, and enhance resilience.

You will balance on-call responsibilities with strategic engineering work to deliver scalable reliability across environments. The role requires 5+ years in SRE or similar, strong experience with Java/Go/Python, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of experience supporting enterprise applications as an SRE or similar role.
• Proficiency in Java, Go or Python.
• Experience with distributed systems, microservices, and software design patterns.

Responsibilities

• Participate in on-call rotations to detect and triage service and reliability issues across all environments.
• Act as the Incident Commander during major incidents and coordinate cross-functional teams.
• Create and maintain meaningful dashboards and alerts; instrument code for visibility.
• Develop automation to eliminate manual and repetitive operational tasks (toil).
• Implement and track Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs).
• Investigate and resolve customer complaints escalated beyond L1/L2 support related to performance or reliability.

Skills

Java

Go

Python

Tools

Kubernetes

Grafana

Datadog

New Relic

Signoz

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Job description

Who We Are

Moniepoint Inc. is Africa’s all-in-one financial platform, helping 20 million businesses and individuals access seamless payments, banking, credit, cross-border, and business management tools each month.

Who We Are

Moniepoint Inc. is Africa’s all-in-one financial platform, helping 20 million businesses and individuals access seamless payments, banking, credit, cross-border, and business management tools each month. As Nigeria’s largest merchant acquirer, we power most of the country’s point-of-sale (POS) transactions. Through our subsidiaries, Moniepoint Inc. processes over $250 billion in digital payment transaction value annually.

What We Do

At Moniepoint, we are a customer-focused community, dedicated to crafting solutions that redefine our industry. We have several products that provide essential services for businesses, such as credit, overdrafts, etc. We leverage artificial intelligence and data to make our decisions, but also have the technology and data-driven best practices used to support our businesses. Curious about what makes Moniepoint an incredible place to work? Check out posts on how we cultivate a culture of innovation, teamwork, and growth.

Job Summary

We are seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) responsible for ensuring our systems run smoothly and efficiently while engineering solutions to improve visibility, eliminate repetitive tasks, and increase system resilience. The ideal candidate will balance real-time on-call responsibilities with strategic engineering work to achieve sustainable and scalable service reliability.

Responsibilities

• Participate in on-call rotations to detect and triage service and reliability issues across all environments. Act as the Incident Commander during major incidents: initiating war room or bridge calls, coordinating cross-functional teams, providing timely and clear status updates to all stakeholders.
• Create and maintain meaningful dashboards and alerts. Work with development teams to instrument their code to ensure visibility.
• Develop automation to eliminate manual and repetitive operational tasks (toil) related to reliability across both applications and infrastructure.
• Implement and track Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs) defined by the engineering leadership.
• Investigate and resolve customer complaints escalated beyond L1 and L2 support, especially those involving performance, reliability, or complex system behavior.

Requirements

• Minimum of 5 years of experience supporting enterprise applications as an SRE or similar role with proficiency in writing code in Java, Go or Python
• Good understanding of distributed systems concepts, microservices architecture and software design patterns.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes. You have managed applications on a major cloud provider (GCP, AWS, or Azure), and can troubleshoot common container issues.
• Experience setting up dashboards in Grafana and using APM tools like Datadog, New Relic, Signoz.You have a Solid understanding of metrics, logs, and traces.
• Proficiency in SQL (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL). Ability to write complex queries to debug data issues and a basic understanding of database performance.

What we can offer you

• Culture - We put our people first and prioritize the well-being of every team member. We’ve built a company where all opinions carry weight and where all voices are heard. We value and respect each other and always look out for one another. Above all, we are human.
• Learning - We have a learning and development-focused environment with an emphasis on knowledge sharing, training, and regular internal technical talks.
• Compensation - You’ll receive an attractive salary, pension, health insurance, annual bonus, plus other benefits.

What to expect in the hiring process

• A preliminary phone call with the recruiter
• A technical interview with the Hiring Manager
• A behavioural and technical interview with a member of the Executive team.

Moniepoint is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and candidates.