Team Lead, Site Reliability Engineering

About this role

Moniepoint Incorporated is seeking a Team Lead, Site Reliability Engineering in Lagos to guide a squad of site reliability engineers responsible for the reliability of a highly distributed financial platform. The role combines strategic leadership with hands-on technical work, including designing reliability architecture, mentoring engineers, and defining the team's technical roadmap to support the company’s scale.

What you would do

• Set the technical direction for the SRE team.
• Architect self-healing systems and reliability standards.
• Define end-to-end visibility and monitoring standards.
• Lead major incident responses as escalation point.
• Mentor SRE engineers.
• Collaborate with Engineering Managers and Product Leads to define SLOs.

What they are asking for

• Minimum of 5 years in SRE or Backend Engineering, with at least 2 years in a Lead or Senior/Staff role mentoring others.
• Expert-level proficiency in Java, Go, Rust, or Python.
• Mastery of distributed systems patterns and scalable architecture design.
• Deep expertise in cloud platforms (GCP or AWS).
• Extensive experience running Kubernetes (GKE) at scale.
• Proven ability to define observability strategies and telemetry stack.

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