Job Description
Who we are
Chowdeck is an on-demand delivery service for Africa. We help vendors deliver food, medicine, and groceries seamlessly while also providing customers with a platform to order from their favourite vendors.
At Chowdeck, we deeply value growth, excellence, speed, and empathy. Our team is a tight-knit team of creative problem solvers who are smart, kind and committed to helping each other grow.
Responsibilities
Where you come in
We're looking for a DevOps Engineer to join our team in building and maintaining the infrastructure that powers our delivery platform and internal systems at scale.
You'll work closely with Backend Engineers, Data teams, and Product teams to improve reliability, scalability, deployment processes, observability, and operational efficiency across our systems and services. Our infrastructure currently leverages AWS, Google Cloud, Docker, CI/CD pipelines, and other modern tooling.
We're looking for articulate people who are curious, empathetic, and kind and are looking to continue to grow their careers at a fast-growing tech startup that cares deeply about personal and professional development.
In this role, you'll be required to:
Design, build, and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure and deployment systems
Improve system reliability, performance, availability, and security across services
Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows
Improve monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability across our systems
Automate infrastructure provisioning and operational processes
Collaborate with engineers across the company to improve developer experience and platform efficiency
Support incident response, troubleshooting, and production issue resolution
Help improve infrastructure standards, tooling, and operational best practices
Requirements
You're perfect for the role if you:
Have strong professional experience managing cloud infrastructure and production systems
Have experience with AWS, Google Cloud, Docker, Kubernetes, or similar technologies
Have strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code tooling
Can troubleshoot complex infrastructure and networking issues
Care deeply about reliability, scalability, security, and performance
Can write clean scripts and automation tooling
Can communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Thrive in fast-paced startup environments with evolving priorities
Benefits
Beyond the paycheck, Chowdeck employees get:
Full medical coverage
Smart, kind colleagues invested in your growth
Housing Assistance
Transport Assistance
Lunch allowance
