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Lead DevOps Engineer

Unlock employer Dubai, United Arab Emirates Posted: 29 Jul 2025

Financial

  • Estimate: $120k - $150k*
  • Zero income tax location

Accessibility

  • Fully Remote
  • Apply from abroad
  • Visa Provided

Requirements

  • Experience: Senior
  • English: Professional

Position

Join Tether and shape the future of digital finance. At Tether, we’re not just building products; we’re pioneering a global financial revolution. Our cutting-edge solutions empower businesses—from exchanges and wallets to payment processors and ATMs—to seamlessly integrate reserve-backed tokens across blockchains. By harnessing the power of blockchain technology, Tether enables you to store, send, and receive digital tokens instantly, securely, and globally, all at a fraction of the cost. Transparency is the bedrock of everything we do, ensuring trust in every transaction.

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We are seeking a highly skilled Lead DevOps Engineer to lead and guide a team of DevOps specialists. You will architect, implement, and help maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub, while deploying and managing critical infrastructure. The ideal candidate will need extensive experience with Docker, JavaScript package publishing to NPM, and automating mobile app build processes, among other skills. A deep expertise in Linux system administration and networking will ensure scalable, secure, and highly available deployments.

Responsibilities:

  • Mentor and lead a team of DevOps specialists, promoting best practices, documentation, and knowledge sharing.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally (Dev, QA, Management, etc.) to enhance deployment quality, observability, and stability.
  • Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting into systems to proactively detect issues and maintain system health.
  • Design the architecture, implementation, and management of end-to-end CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions, ensuring rapid and reliable software delivery.
  • Design and enforce test-driven deployment systems, integrating automated testing at every stage to maintain code quality and accelerate feedback loops.
  • Oversee server system administration, including configuration, monitoring, patching, and troubleshooting.
  • Stay up to date on industry trends and best practices, and evaluate and integrate new DevOps tools and processes.

Qualifications:

  • 7+ years in DevOps/Infrastructure roles, with at least 2-3 in a leadership/technical lead capacity.
  • Expertise in containerization technologies—Docker image creation, registry management, and basic orchestration patterns.
  • Hands-on experience managing JavaScript packages and publishing workflows to NPM, with a solid understanding of semantic versioning.
  • Understanding of C++ build systems, specifically CMake, and experience optimizing native code pipelines using GitHub Actions.
  • Strong Linux system administration and networking expertise, including shell scripting, package management, system performance troubleshooting, firewalls, and VPNs to secure and optimize deployments.
  • Excellent leadership, problem-solving, and communication skills.
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline.
  • Excellent English communication skills are required.

If you’re passionate about making a mark in the fintech space and ready to contribute to the most innovative platform on the planet, Tether is the place for you!

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