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Platform DevOps Engineer

Lulalend

Lulalend

Software Engineering
Cape Town, South Africa
Posted on Apr 1, 2026

OVERALL PURPOSE

We are building a small, focused innovation pod inside a fintech scale-up — and we need someone who can make sure the systems we build actually reach production safely.

This is not a maintenance role. You will be shaping the deployment and data infrastructure for a team that moves fast and builds things that matter. You will own everything from CI/CD pipelines to database migrations, observability, and environment promotion.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines for rapid, safe deployment
  • Own the infrastructure layer on Azure: environments, configuration, secrets, networking
  • Plan and execute database schema migrations safely — including rollback strategies
  • Set up and maintain observability: logging, metrics, alerting
  • Manage containerized workloads using Docker and Azure managed services
  • Promote builds from development through staging to production with confidence
  • Collaborate directly with the backend and frontend engineers in the pod
  • Document infrastructure decisions so production teams can inherit what we build

THE EXPERIENCE WE’RE LOOKING FOR

  • Demonstrated experience owning CI/CD pipelines end-to-end
  • Production experience with database migrations in a regulated or financial environment
  • Hands-on with Docker and Azure managed services
  • Strong understanding of observability tooling and incident response
  • Comfortable operating as the sole platform function within a small team
  • Systematic approach to deployment risk and rollback planning
  • IaC experience is a strong advantage but not a blocker for the right candidate (Terraform or equivalent)

Advantageous:

  • Familiarity with agentic development workflows or AI-assisted tooling
  • Prior experience preparing systems for handoff to a larger ops or platform team

OUR TECH STACK

  • Azure
  • Snowflake
  • DBT
  • Python
  • SQL
  • Hex
  • GitHub