Team Lead, Site Reliability Engineering

Moniepoint Group
Lagos
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: DevOps, Cloud & InfrastructureExperience: 5+ yearsSkills: ["Communication","Leadership","Mentoring","De-escalation","Problem-solving"]

Lead a squad of site reliability engineers to ensure the reliability of Moniepoint’s distributed financial platform. Combine strategic leadership with hands-on technical work, defining reliability architecture, roadmaps, and an observability-driven culture to scale systems and people as the company grows.

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Moniepoint Group
Moniepoint Group
1 year ago

Team Lead, Site Reliability Engineering

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Job Summary

Lead a squad of site reliability engineers to ensure the reliability of Moniepoint’s distributed financial platform. Combine strategic leadership with hands-on technical work, defining reliability architecture, roadmaps, and an observability-driven culture to scale systems and people as the company grows.
Location: Lagos
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: DevOps, Cloud & Infrastructure
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •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.
  • •Define and enforce the end-to-end standard for system visibility. You will guide teams to deeply instrument their code (logging, tracing, metrics) and govern the monitoring ecosystem to ensure alerts are actionable, strictly minimizing noise (alert fatigue) while maximizing our ability to detect and resolve issues proactively.
  • •Lead, mentor, and grow a team of Senior and Associate SREs. Conduct code reviews, facilitate technical workshops and foster a culture of engineering excellence.
  • •Act as the ultimate escalation point for major incidents. Beyond firefighting, you will refine the Incident management process, ensuring the process is efficient and that RCAs lead to actionable engineering fixes.
  • •Partner with Engineering Managers and Product Leads to define Service Level Objectives (SLOs) that align with business goals.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Health InsurancePensionAnnual Bonus

Key Requirements

  • •5+ years of experience in SRE or Backend Engineering, with at least 2 years in a Lead or Senior/Staff role mentoring others.
  • •Expert-level proficiency in Java, Go, Rust, or Python.
  • •Mastery of distributed systems patterns; ability to design scalable architectures and explain trade-offs.
  • •Deep expertise with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or AWS, with extensive experience running Kubernetes (GKE) at scale.
  • •Proven experience defining observability strategies for large teams, including telemetry stack from instrumentation to monitoring and alerting.
Experience:5+ yearsSRECloudDistributed systems
Skills:CommunicationLeadershipMentoringDe-escalationProblem-solving
Languages:English
Tech Stack:JavaGoRustPythonGCPAWSKubernetesGKEObservabilityTelemetryLoggingTracingMetrics

Company Brief

Moniepoint Group
Provides digital payments, merchant services, agent banking, card issuance, and business banking solutions across Nigeria and other African markets, serving SMEs, merchants, and financial institutions with technology-first transaction and banking infrastructure.
Industry: Fintech Infrastructure
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Headquarters: Lagos, Nigeria
Founded: 2015
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