Lead SRE & DevSecOps Leader — FinTech (Dubai)

FinTop Consulting; Dubai; On-site; AED 420,000 - 720,000; Full time

Job summary

FinTop Consulting in Dubai, UAE, seeks a hands-on Lead SRE / Technology Operations to own production infrastructure, reliability, and security controls in a regulated fintech environment.

You will lead IAM/PAM, CI/CD, incident response, and disaster recovery while coordinating with security partners and auditors to meet regulatory requirements. This on-site role reports to the Group CTO and offers direct impact from launch.

Qualifications

• 6+ years hands-on experience in SRE/DevOps/DevSecOps and infrastructure engineering.
• 2+ years in fintech, banking or regulated environments.
• Strong production-level AWS or equivalent cloud experience.
• Proven Kubernetes experience in production.
• Experience with IAM/PAM and privileged access reviews.
• Experience supporting audits/regulatory controls (ISO 27001/SOC 2 desirable).

Responsibilities

• Own production infrastructure, monitoring and access control.
• Manage AWS/cloud infrastructure, networking, segmentation and capacity planning.
• Operate and maintain Kubernetes environments in production.
• Build and maintain infrastructure using Terraform, Ansible or equivalent.
• Design and maintain IAM/PAM controls, least-privilege access and periodic access reviews.
• Own CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation and approval controls.
• Establish monitoring and observability across metrics, logs and traces.
• Lead incident response, triage, restoration, RCA and corrective actions.
• Develop and maintain runbooks, escalation processes and on-call procedures.
• Own backup/restore processes and disaster recovery testing.
• Define and validate RTO/RPO requirements and conduct failover testing.
• Coordinate security operations with external CISO/SOC partners.
• Manage vulnerability remediation, penetration testing and security findings.
• Maintain secrets, certificates and infrastructure hardening standards.
• Support technology controls, audit requirements and regulatory evidence.
• Oversee vendor performance, access rights, SLAs and material incident reporting.

Skills

SRE

DevOps

DevSecOps

Kubernetes

AWS

Terraform

Ansible

IAM/PAM

Incident management

Disaster recovery

Regulatory controls

English communication

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

FinTop Consulting in Dubai, UAE, seeks a hands-on Lead SRE / Technology Operations to own production infrastructure, reliability, and security controls in a regulated fintech environment.

You will lead IAM/PAM, CI/CD, incident response, and disaster recovery while coordinating with security partners and auditors to meet regulatory requirements. This on-site role reports to the Group CTO and offers direct impact from launch.