Systems Engineer
LekkeSlaap
- Cape Town, Western Cape
- Permanent
- Full-time
Experience: 3-5+ years🖥️ Design, build, and operate the core infrastructure across on-prem and cloud🔒 Ensure security, reliability, and scalability of all systems supporting our e-commerce platform⚙️ Automate workflows with CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure-as-Code principles📊 Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize applications, networks, and infrastructure💡 Own incident response, root-cause analysis, and post-mortems📍 Hybrid in V&A Waterfront, Cape Town (2 days in-office)Who we are at Tripco:LekkeSlaap is South Africa’s leading accommodation booking app known for its user-friendliness, exceptional customer experience, and extensive local accommodation options. Owned by Tripco, a travel technology company based in Cape Town, LekkeSlaap is dedicated to delivering innovative solutions and maintaining high standards in travel technology.Responsibilities:
- Own design, implementation, and enhancement of on-prem and cloud infrastructure
- Maintain high system availability, optimize latency, and ensure resilient networking
- Safeguard systems via secrets management, access control, and container hardening
- Provide observability through logging, metrics, tracing, and alerts
- Drive CI/CD automation and consistent deployment workflows
- Build internal tooling and self-service frameworks for engineering teams
- Champion operational best practices: SLOs, error budgets, chaos testing, disaster recovery.
- 3–5+ years of experience in systems, infrastructure, or reliability engineering
- Strong Linux administration skills and production Docker experience
- Hands-on experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Ansible, or equivalent)
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS preferred, GCP/Azure acceptable)
- Knowledge of networking concepts (DNS, HTTP, TLS, reverse proxies, load balancing)
- Security-focused mindset with experience in secrets management and system hardening
- Confident in incident management and problem-solving under pressure
- Strong process orientation, documentation habits, and discipline
- Comfortable working in a hybrid setup with at least two in-office days per week.
- Experience with HashiCorp stack (Nomad, Consul, Vault)
- Familiarity with PHP, Python, C++, or Rust workloads
- Observability tools (Datadog, Grafana, Loki, Sentry)
- E-commerce or travel sector experience
- Hybrid work setup (2 days in our office based in the beautiful Cape Town V&A Waterfront) – parking included
- Flexible start times
- Free lunch on in-office days
- Discovery Medical Aid contributions & Vitality Health subscription.
- Retirement Annuity fund contribution
- Flexible leave policy with 20 days of annual leave
- Get a half-day off every month (which adds up to 6 extra days!)
- Digital nomad month (work from anywhere)
- Showers on site
- Travel vouchers and discounts
- High-end laptops and workstation setup for both in-office and home
- Team budget for learning, online courses, and developer conferences
- Regular team events and more!