Senior DevOps Engineer

Lean Technologies is a fast-growing fintech company building the financial data infrastructure for the MENA region. Operating in a highly regulated and security-sensitive environment, we serve mission-critical financial services that demand robust SLAs, tight security controls, and scalable, high-performance systems.

As a Senior DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer, you will work at the intersection of DevOps, cloud infrastructure, and SRE. You’ll own the architecture, automation, reliability, and observability of our hybrid cloud infrastructure across multiple regions and environments. Your role will involve troubleshooting complex problems across the stack, from networking and Linux internals to Kubernetes and cloud-native applications, ensuring the platform remains secure, fast, and reliable.

Responsibilities:

• Architect, deploy, and manage Kubernetes clusters across hybrid cloud environments (GCP, OCI, and on-prem).
• Design and automate secure, scalable CI/CD pipelines for microservices and backend systems using GitHub Actions/Jenkins.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) across multi-region, multi-environment setups using Terraform/Ansible and GitOps practices.
• Build and operate monitoring, observability, and alerting stacks (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK).
• Proactively identify and address reliability, latency, and availability issues to meet strict SLA objectives.
• Participate in and lead on-call rotations and incident response, conducting detailed postmortems and RCA reports.
• Automate infrastructure lifecycle tasks: provisioning, scaling, configuration management, and patching.
• Champion security, compliance (SOC 2, ISO 27001), and infrastructure reliability best practices.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to improve internal platforms, tooling, and developer productivity.

Must-Have Technical Skills:

• 6+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps and/or Site Reliability Engineering roles.
• Deep understanding of Linux systems administration and internals.
• Networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, VPNs, routing, firewall policies).
• Kubernetes/Helm/Containers (Setup and day 2 operations/troubleshooting).
• Terraform for infrastructure automation.
• Strong scripting and automation with bash/shell and preferably at least one programming language: Python or Go.
• Cloud expertise with OCI or GCP, ideally both.

Additional Technical Experience:

• CI/CD tools: GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Jenkins.
• Docker and container lifecycle management.
• Logging and tracing (e.g., ELK stack, OpenTelemetry).
• Operational experience with PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis.
• Security hardening and cloud compliance frameworks.

Desired Qualifications:

• Previous experience in fintech or high-compliance regulated industries.
• Familiarity with multi-cloud and hybrid architectures.
• Strong documentation habits and experience contributing to runbooks.
• Passion for resilient system design and cross-functional infrastructure challenges.
• Experience with service mesh technologies (e.g., Istio, Linkerd).

Why Join Us? Lean Technologies is the first regulated open banking and open finance company operating across the UAE and Saudi Arabia. With a mission to become the leading A2A payments company in the Middle East, we empower our clients to connect seamlessly to their users’ bank accounts. Our team includes some of the leading companies in the region such as Etisalat, Careem, and Binance.

We offer competitive salaries, private healthcare, flexible office hours, and meaningful equity stakes to ensure long-term alignment. If you're passionate about solving hard problems and making a lasting impact, Lean is the place for you.

Equal Opportunity Employer: Lean is committed to equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status.