DevOps Engineer

What’s holding global brands back in South Africa isn’t demand. It’s friction. We’re changing that. If you're excited by complex challenges, care about doing things properly, and thrive in a fast-moving environment, this is a rare opportunity to do your best work.

The problem Precium is solving:

Global businesses want to grow across the continent but broken payment experiences, regulatory minefields, and infrastructure gaps get in the way.

Precium helps global brands reduce payment failures, navigate local regulations, and get paid, reliably and at scale.

We build payment infrastructure that reduces friction, increases revenue, and ensures compliance without compromising performance. From reconciliation to payouts, we handle the complexity so our clients can operate with confidence.

Our clients include South Africa’s biggest enterprises and some of the world’s most recognisable consumer brands. We're backed by global investors like QED Investors, Partech, and SpeedInvest, and we’re building for scale, for depth, and for the long term.

We’re a team of builders who care about craft, rigour, and impact. We value the effort it takes to do hard things well and we’re excited by the opportunity to shape how the world does business in South Africa.

We give global brands the infrastructure, insight, and control they need to grow in South Africa.

The role

We’re seeking a DevOps Engineer to join our Engineering team and help build scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructure to support Precium’s payment platform. In this role, you will be responsible for the tooling, deployment, monitoring, and automation that keeps our systems performant and our engineers productive. You will report into the VP of Engineering.

If you thrive on solving infrastructure challenges and building high-performance systems, we want to hear from you.

Why this role matters:

You’ll play a foundational role in ensuring Precium’s systems are secure, observable, and always available. As our infrastructure scales alongside our customer base, this role is critical to keeping us fast, compliant, and ready for what’s next.

Why Precium

At Precium, ambition is expected. We believe this is what it takes to build something that lasts.

• Partner with some of the world’s most ambitious merchants and orchestrators as they expand into South Africa.
• Build from first principles whether you're designing a system, solving a client problem, or rewriting a process.
• Join a team that values precision, curiosity, and discipline, and backs it up with high trust and high standards.
• Competitive salary and benefits.

Who you are

You’re a sharp thinker and an even sharper doer. You care about the details, ask good questions, and enjoy learning as you go. You’re motivated by a challenge, not discouraged by it. You like solving hard problems with other smart people. You don’t need hand-holding, but you value open feedback and being part of a strong, honest team.

The ideal candidate will possess:

• 3+ years of experience working as a DevOps engineer.
• Extensive experience with Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code.
• Confidence creating modular CI/CD workflows (ideally in GitHub Actions).
• Deep knowledge of cloud infrastructure (preferably AWS).
• Strong grasp of secure networking principles and security-first architecture.
• A solid understanding of Docker and Kubernetes (Helm experience a plus).
• Experience in managing Linux servers and scripting with Bash or Python.
• Familiarity with observability tooling (Grafana, Prometheus, Graylog, Opensearch).
• Experience managing incidents and monitoring uptime with tools like PagerDuty.
• A practical, detail-oriented mindset with the ability to write concise technical documentation.
• Strong communication skills, able to articulate decisions and rationale to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Key responsibilities

• Design and manage scalable, secure AWS infrastructure using Terraform.
• Build and maintain reliable CI/CD pipelines for fast, safe deployments.
• Monitor system health and ensure high uptime with observability best practices.
• Partner with engineers to optimise development workflows and release processes.
• Lead incident response efforts and continuously improve reliability practices.
• Ensure infrastructure meets compliance, security, and regulatory standards.
• Maintain and improve logging, monitoring, and alerting systems across environments.
• Document architecture decisions and operational processes clearly and accessibly.

Challenges you’ll need to solve

• Ensuring zero-downtime deployments in a distributed microservice architecture.
• Scaling infrastructure cost-effectively as transaction volumes increase.
• Creating developer tooling that supports velocity without sacrificing reliability.
• Balancing security, compliance, and speed in a complex payments environment.

How we work

At Precium we follow 5 guiding values. These values underpin our day-to-day, guide our decision making both externally and internally and describe who we are.

• We spell Client with a capital C
  
• We speak and seek truth and transparency
• We are here to win the match together
• We continuously level up
• We take action

Job details

• Hybrid/flexible work arrangement (SA based candidates only)
• Preferred start date: Mid August
• Role budget: Discussed in intro call
• Contractor or permanent: Permanent full time role

This is a chance to do your best work and help lead Precium’s next chapter of growth as we shape how global merchants do business in South Africa.