Location: Cape Town (hybrid, 2 office days per week)
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.

Requirements

• 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.
  

Nice to Haves:

• 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

Benefits

• 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!