Job Title: Lead DevOps Engineer Location: Douala Contract Type: Permanent / Full-time Company: @fric Payment Solutions Sarl Sector: FinTech – Payment, Digital Financial Solutions Salary: [To be negotiated ]
About Us
@fric Payment Solutions Sarl is a pan-African technology company specializing in the design of modern, secure, and accessible payment solutions. Our digital financial platforms facilitate transactions for thousands of users while ensuring reliability, compliance, and performance. As part of our expansion and the scaling of our operations, we are seeking a Lead DevOps Engineer to manage our infrastructure, optimize our CI/CD pipelines, and guarantee the availability, resilience, and security of our systems.
Main missions
As Lead DevOps Engineer , you will be the key person responsible for the automation, reliability, and performance of our cloud and on- premises infrastructure . You will lead (as needed) a small DevOps/SRE team and collaborate closely with the Backend, Frontend, Mobile, QA, and Security teams.
Key responsibilities:
Technical Management & Architecture
- Define, implement and maintain the company’s DevOps architecture (CI/CD, monitoring, observability, security).
- Oversee the modernization of the infrastructure: containerization, orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes /AKS/EKS, etc.).
- Design scalable, resilient, and highly available environments.
- Automate the deployment of backend, frontend, mobile and microservices applications .
- Implement Zero-Downtime Deployment, Blue/Green, Canary Releases .
Environments & Automation
- Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines ( GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins…).
- Industrialize integration, automated testing, delivery, and continuous deployment.
- Managing infrastructure as code ( Terraform , Ansible, CloudFormation …).
- Manage the environments (Dev, QA, Preprod , Prod).
Security & Compliance
- Strengthen DevSecOps practices (SAST/DAST scans, secrets management, hardening).
- Ensuring compliance with fintech standards: PCI-DSS, log management, auditing, traceability.
Send applications to rh@afric.ca
