Moniepoint is a financial technology company digitising Africa’s real economy by building a financial ecosystem for businesses, providing them with all the payment, banking, credit and business management tools they need to succeed.
About the Role
- You will lead a distributed team of cloud engineers responsible for ensuring our Google Cloud Platform (GCP) infrastructure is secure, scalable, and resilient — powering critical financial services and high-volume payment systems.
- This role combines hands-on technical leadership with strategic oversight. You’ll work closely with backend, frontend, security, and SRE teams to strengthen our cloud foundations, optimize CI/CD processes, and ensure world-class uptime, compliance, and observability.
Key Responsibilities
Leadership & Strategy:
- Lead and mentor the Cloud Engineering team across multiple time zones.
- Define and execute Moniepoint’s cloud infrastructure roadmap aligned with business and engineering goals.
- Establish best practices for automation, security, observability, and GitOps-driven operations.
- Collaborate with the CTO, Engineering Managers, and Security teams on scaling strategies, cost management, and reliability objectives.
Cloud Infrastructure & Automation:
- Architect and manage infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) using Terraform and GitOps principles.
- Maintain and scale Kubernetes (GKE) clusters supporting Java/Spring-based microservices.
- Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines with GitLab, Jenkins, Harness, and ArgoCD.
- Integrate and enforce code quality through SonarQube and automated security scans.
- Implement automated testing, deployment, and rollback mechanisms across environments.
Monitoring, Reliability & Operations:
- Maintain platform observability using New Relic, Stackdriver, and custom dashboards.
- Oversee incident response and escalation processes with PagerDuty, ensuring continuous availability.
- Define and meet SLOs/SLAs aligned with business-critical systems (e.g., ≥99.99% uptime).
- Lead disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity initiatives, ensuring compliance with RTO/RPO targets.
Security, Compliance & Governance:
- Enforce IAM, network, and data protection standards within GCP.
- Partner with Compliance and Security to uphold FCA, ISO 27001, and SOC 2 requirements.
- Ensure end-to-end encryption, secret management (Vault), and secure access controls.
- Champion continuous improvement in DevSecOps and cloud governance practices.
Cost Management & Optimization:
- Monitor and optimize GCP spend across compute, storage, and database workloads.
- Introduce automation and reporting for cost visibility and anomaly detection.
- Collaborate with Finance and Product teams to forecast and manage cloud budgets.
Key Technologies:
- Cloud: Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Infrastructure as Code: Terraform
- Container Orchestration: Kubernetes (GKE)
- CI/CD & Automation: GitLab CI, Jenkins, Harness, ArgoCD
- Monitoring & Alerting: New Relic, Stackdriver, PagerDuty
- Code Quality: SonarQube
- Programming & Runtime: Java, Spring Boot, Python, Bash
- Databases: Google Cloud Spanner, Cloud SQL
- Version Control & Collaboration: GitLab
Required Skills & Experience
- 8+ years of experience in cloud or infrastructure engineering, with 3+ years in a leadership role.
- Deep expertise in GCP architecture, Kubernetes, and Terraform.
- Proven success managing CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows in production.
- Strong background in networking, systems reliability, and security fundamentals.
- Experience operating and scaling high-availability fintech or payment platforms.
- Solid understanding of observability, incident management, and SRE practices.
- Familiarity with compliance frameworks relevant to regulated financial institutions.
Preferred Qualifications:
- GCP Professional Cloud Architect or Cloud DevOps Engineer certification.
- Experience with distributed databases (e.g., Cloud Spanner).
- Exposure to ISO 27001 audits or FCA-regulated environments.
- Understanding of microservice-based architecture (Java/Spring) at scale.
Soft Skills:
- Strong leadership, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Analytical, structured, and proactive problem-solving mindset.
- Ability to lead distributed teams and balance strategic and hands-on work.
- Excellent documentation and process discipline.
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