FinTech Payments Operations Engineer - High Availability

Xad Technologies; Dubai; On-site; AED 350,000 - 520,000; Full time

Job summary

Xad Technologies seeks an experienced Technology Operations Engineer to support critical digital payments platforms in a FinTech environment. You will ensure high availability, security, and performance of payment systems while aligning with ITSM processes and governance standards.

Responsibilities include managing containerized platforms, optimizing web services, performing Linux administration, monitoring health, and leading major incident management with cross-functional teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required in CS/IT/Engineering or related field.
• Master's degree or relevant professional certifications are a plus.
• At least 8–12+ years in technology operations or production support.
• Strong knowledge of payment platforms, PCI-DSS, and financial security standards.

Responsibilities

• Ensure availability, reliability, security, and performance of payment systems.
• Manage containerized platforms including deployment, orchestration, scaling, and troubleshooting.
• Administer and optimize web services with reverse proxy, load balancing, and traffic routing.
• Perform advanced Linux system administration (RHEL/SUSE).
• Monitor operational health: performance, capacity, SLAs, KPIs; ensure DR readiness.

Skills

ITIL processes

DevSecOps practices

PCI-DSS

Financial security standards

Regulatory risk management

Incident management

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Engineering

Master's degree or professional certifications

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Red Hat Enterprise Linux

SUSE Linux

AWS

Azure

GCP

OCI

Job description

Xad Technologies seeks an experienced Technology Operations Engineer to support critical digital payments platforms in a FinTech environment. You will ensure high availability, security, and performance of payment systems while aligning with ITSM processes and governance standards.

Responsibilities include managing containerized platforms, optimizing web services, performing Linux administration, monitoring health, and leading major incident management with cross-functional teams.