2 months ago
Remote, South Africa or Cape Town, South AfricaMid Level / Senior
Responsibilities
- Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines for rapid and safe deployment.
- Own Azure infrastructure, including environments, configuration, secrets, and networking.
- Manage containerized workloads using Docker and Azure managed services.
- Set up and maintain observability through logging, metrics, and alerting, and diagnose production issues.
- Execute database and schema migrations safely with effective rollback paths.
- Work with the Data Engineering function on the pod’s data platform.
- Document systems and operational decisions for production-team handoff.
Requirements
- 3–5 years of experience in a similar role.
- Production experience owning CI/CD pipelines end-to-end.
- Hands-on experience with Docker and Azure managed services.
- Practical observability experience diagnosing live production issues.
- Experience running database or schema migrations in production, including handling failures.
- Ability to work effectively in a small team without a large platform function.
- Infrastructure as Code experience with Terraform, Pulumi, or Bicep is advantageous.
- Fintech or other regulated-environment experience is advantageous.
- Exposure to modern data tooling such as dbt or Snowflake is advantageous.
- Interest in agentic or AI-assisted development workflows is advantageous.
- Experience documenting decisions through ADRs, runbooks, or incident write-ups is advantageous.
About Lula
Lula builds digital banking and lending products for South African small businesses, including a business bank account, cash‑flow tools, and unsecured funding. It monetizes through interest and fees on credit facilities and banking services delivered via web and mobile. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Cape Town, the company rebranded from Lulalend and raised a Series B in 2023.