Manager, Site Reliability Engineering
Summary
Qore, a Lagos-based fintech infrastructure company, seeks a Manager of Site Reliability Engineering to lead and grow the SRE team, own SLOs/SLAs for core banking, API, and payment platforms, and drive cloud infrastructure (AWS/Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform), observability, incident response, and PCI-DSS/CBN compliance.
1.
Leadership & Strategy
- Lead,
mentor, and grow the SRE team; set clear goals, on-call structure, and career
paths.
- Define
and own SRE strategy, roadmap, and best practices aligned with business and
compliance requirements.
- Drive
a culture of reliability, automation, and blameless postmortems.
2.
Reliability & Availability
- Own
SLAs, SLOs, and SLIs for all production platforms (core banking, APIs,
payments).
- Ensure
99.9%+ availability of critical services and lead efforts to eliminate single
points of failure.
- Manage
capacity planning, scalability, and disaster recovery (DR/BCP) strategies.
3.
Infrastructure & Automation
- Own
and evolve our cloud and on-prem infrastructure (AWS/Azure, Kubernetes, Docker,
Terraform).
- Drive
Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD, and GitOps maturity to enable safe,
frequent releases.
- Lead
automation of operational toil, provisioning, and configuration management.
4.
Incident & Problem Management
- Own
the incident response lifecycle - detection, escalation, resolution, and
post-incident review.
- Build
and improve monitoring, alerting, logging, and observability stacks
(Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/Datadog, PagerDuty).
- Act
as final escalation for P1/P2 incidents.
5.
Security & Compliance
- Partner
with Security and Compliance to ensure infrastructure meets PCI-DSS, NDPA, CBN,
and ISO 27001 requirements.
- Embed
security, secrets management, and vulnerability remediation into SRE practices.
- Own
change management and audit readiness for infrastructure changes.
6.
Collaboration
- Collaborate
closely with Software Engineering, Product, Security, and Client Success to
ensure reliability is built-in.
- Provide
technical guidance to engineering teams on resilient architecture patterns.
Requirements
Experience
- 5+
years in DevOps / SRE / Infrastructure Engineering, with 2+ years in a team
lead role.
- Proven
experience managing highly available, high-transaction systems in fintech,
banking, or large-scale B2B SaaS.
- Strong
track record managing production incidents and on-call teams.
- Deep
expertise in Linux, networking, and distributed systems.
- Strong
hands-on experience with AWS (EC2, EKS, RDS, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch) or Azure.
- Expert
in Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, or Ansible.
- Proficiency
in at least one scripting/programming language: Python, Go, or Bash.
- Experience
with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD).
- Solid
understanding of monitoring/observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK,
Datadog, New Relic).
Nice
to Have
- Experience
with core banking systems, payment switches, or ISO 8583.
- Experience
with database reliability (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis).
- Certifications:
AWS Solutions Architect / DevOps Engineer, CKA/CKAD.
- Experience
with service mesh (Istio/Linkerd) and chaos engineering.
Soft
Skills
- Excellent
leadership, communication, and stakeholder management.
- Strong
analytical and problem-solving mindset under pressure.
- Ability
to balance operational rigor with delivery speed.
Benefits
- Very competitive and rewarding pay
- Flexible work option (i.e., Remote work)
- Paid Lunch for onsite work
- Lifelong Learnings
Skills
- Ansible
- API
- Argo CD
- Automation
- AWS
- Azure
- Bash
- CI/CD
- Cloud
- CloudWatch
- Datadog
- DevOps
- Distributed Systems
- Docker
- EC2
- EKS
- ELK
- Fintech
- GitHub
- GitHub Actions
- GitLab
- GitOps
- Grafana
- IAM
- Infrastructure as Code
- ISO 27001
- Istio
- Jenkins
- Kubernetes
- Linux
- MongoDB
- MySQL
- Networking
- New Relic
- Observability
- PagerDuty
- Pci Dss
- PostgreSQL
- Prometheus
- Python
- RDS
- Redis
- SaaS
- Secrets Management
- Stakeholder Management
- Terraform
- VPC