Team Lead, Site Reliability Engineering

Moniepoint · Lagos, Nigeria · Full Time

• Posted 5 September 2026
• Closes 5 October 2026
• Data & Tech

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About the role

Moniepoint is hiring a Team Lead for Site Reliability Engineering to oversee a squad maintaining the uptime and resilience of its financial platform. This senior leadership role requires at least six years of engineering experience with a track record of mentoring others. Key qualifications include mastery of cloud infrastructure like GCP or AWS, proficiency in programming languages such as Go or Java, and deep knowledge of Kubernetes and observability systems.

Skills they are looking for

• Site Reliability Engineering
• Kubernetes
• GCP
• AWS
• Go
• Java
• Observability
• Incident Management

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