Tripco

DevOps Engineer

Tripco

full-time

Posted on:

Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Cape Town • 🇿🇦 South Africa

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Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

Tech Stack

AnsibleAWSAzureCloudConsulDNSDockerGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaLinuxMariaDBMySQLPHPPythonRedisRustTerraformVault

About the role

  • 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.

Requirements

  • 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.
Benefits
  • 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!

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
Linux administrationDockerInfrastructure-as-CodeTerraformAnsibleAWSGCPAzurePHPPython
Soft skills
incident managementproblem-solvingprocess orientationdocumentation habitsdiscipline