DevOps Engineer

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.

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

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

Beyond the paycheck, Chowdeck employees get:

• Full medical coverage
• Smart, kind colleagues invested in your growth
• Housing Assistance
• Transport Assistance
• Lunch allowance

Chowdeck is an equal-opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. We’re committed to providing employees with a work environment that is progressive and open-minded. Our employment philosophy is to hire the best people and empower them to do the best work of their lives. Employment decisions are based on business needs and individual merit without regard to race, color, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, nationality, marital status, gender, or age.