Team Lead, Site Reliability Engineering

Moniepoint

Lagos, Nigeria
On-site
Design high-level reliability architecture
Define reliability standards
Drive adoption of observability
Moniepoint is seeking a Team Lead for Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) to oversee a team of engineers dedicated to maintaining the reliability of their financial platform. The ideal candidate should have extensive experience in SRE or backend engineering, strong leadership skills, and proficiency in programming languages such as Java, Go, Rust, or Python, with an emphasis on cloud platforms like GCP or AWS

Job Summary

  • You will be designing high-level reliability architecture, while also mentoring engineers, defining the technical roadmap, and driving the culture of Site Reliability Engineering within a team.
  • Set the technical direction for the SRE team. Architect self-healing systems, define reliability standards (Production Readiness Reviews), and drive the adoption of observability as Code and automation best practices.
  • You’ll receive an attractive salary, pension, health insurance, annual bonus, plus other benefits.

Matching Summary

Match Score: 85

Moniepoint is seeking a Team Lead for Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) to oversee a team of engineers dedicated to maintaining the reliability of their financial platform. The ideal candidate should have extensive experience in SRE or backend engineering, strong leadership skills, and proficiency in programming languages such as Java, Go, Rust, or Python, with an emphasis on cloud platforms like GCP or AWS.

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • design high-level reliability architecture
  • define reliability standards
  • drive adoption of observability
  • define end-to-end standard for system visibility
  • instrument their code
  • govern the monitoring ecosystem
  • refine incident management process
  • define Service Level Objectives (SLOs)

Nice-to-have

  • culture of innovation, teamwork, and growth
  • engineering excellence
  • calm authority

Key Requirements

  • 5 years of experience in SRE or Backend Engineering
  • 2 years in a Lead or Senior/Staff role
  • Expert-level proficiency in Java, Go, Rust, or Python
  • Mastery of distributed systems patterns
  • Deep expertise with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or AWS
  • Extensive experience running Kubernetes (GKE) at scale
  • Proven experience defining observability strategies

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