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Staff DevOps Engineer

Lean Technologies· Engineering
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Dubai, United Arab EmiratesFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Staff DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer shaping infrastructure strategy across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, focusing on reliability, scalability, security, and developer experience in a fast-growing fintech at Lean Technologies.

Responsibilities

  • Define and own the infrastructure architecture strategy across hybrid cloud (GCP, OCI, on-prem)
  • Design and evolve Kubernetes platforms for multi-region scalability, resilience, and cost efficiency
  • Establish and drive Infrastructure as Code and GitOps standards across all environments
  • Build and scale observability systems (metrics, logging, tracing) to support proactive reliability
  • Lead efforts to meet and exceed SLA, SLO, and error budget targets
  • Own and improve incident management processes, including postmortems and systemic fixes
  • Drive automation strategy across provisioning, scaling, patching, and operations
  • Champion security, compliance, and reliability best practices (SOC 2, ISO 27001, CIS benchmarks)
  • Partner with engineering teams to improve developer experience and platform usability
  • Mentor engineers and act as a technical leader across DevOps and infrastructure domains

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of experience in DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineering
  • Strong experience designing and operating distributed systems at scale
  • Deep expertise in: Linux systems and internals; Networking (TCP/IP, DNS, VPNs, routing, firewalls); Kubernetes (design, operations, and troubleshooting); Terraform (or equivalent IaC tools); Strong programming/scripting skills (Python, Go, or similar); Experience with multi-cloud or hybrid cloud environments (GCP, OCI preferred)

Skills

Required:DevOps / SRE / Platform EngineeringLinuxNetworkingKubernetesTerraform / IaCProgramming

Benefits

  • competitive salaries
  • private healthcare
  • flexible office hours
  • meaningful equity stake in the business
Last updated Sep 9, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Lean Technologies

Open Banking Platform for Banks and Fintechs in MENA

Lean provides the Data and Payments tools to empower MENA's next generation of financial products | Trusted by Etisalat, Hubpay, Lulu Finance, Binance, Sarwa and more.

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