Python
Kubernetes
Terraform
Telephony Engineer
Overview
Wave is hiring a Telephony Engineer to manage and scale their communications infrastructure to support their mission of making Africa the first cashless continent.
Job Description
Wave is a company focused on making Africa the first cashless continent by providing financial services that are accessible and affordable. They have millions of users across six countries and are rapidly growing.
Responsibilities
- - Design and implement physical networks that are secure, reliable and performant
- - Own the end-to-end integration and onboarding process for new telecommunication partners
- - Optimize performance and cost efficiency of backbone telephony services in a hybrid cloud/datacenter setup
- - Automate telephony deployments and promote infrastructure-as-code best practices
- - Improve system observability through metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting
- - Collaborate with product teams to proactively improve the reliability of our services
- - Participate in and improve our on-call incident response processes
- - Champion security and compliance in our infrastructure
Required Skills
- - 4+ years of experience in an SRE, DevOps, Network or Telecommunications Engineering role
- - Solid understanding of networking and distributed systems
- - Demonstrable experience dealing with on-premises infrastructure
- - Strong experience with cloud platforms (GCP preferred) and Terraform
- - Track record of successfully implementing observability, reliability metrics, auto-provisioning and other SRE best practices
- - Methodical troubleshoot skills; ability to diagnose complex networking issues spanning multiple distributed systems and network layers
- - Proficiency in at least one backend language, preferably Python
- - Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- - Passion for our mission of bringing financial services to underserved markets
Benefits
- - Subsidized health insurance for you and your dependents and retirement contributions
- - 6 months fully paid parental leave and subsidized fertility assistance
- - Flexible vacation, with most folks taking between 30-40 days per year
- - $10,000 annual charitable donation matching
About the company
We’re on a mission to make Africa the first cashless continent. On a continent where over half the population has no bank account, Wave is building the first modern financial network — no account fees, instantly available, and accepted everywhere!