Senior DevOps

Caliberly; Dubai; Hybrid; AED 390,000 - 680,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-friendly

Exposure to fintech/APIs

Job summary

Caliberly seeks a Senior DevOps Engineer to design, build, and operate cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines for a modern cross-border payments platform. You will ensure reliability, security, and scalability across production environments.

You will collaborate with fintech engineers, implement IaC, and improve observability while supporting Java and Node/React applications in production. Remote-ready candidates with UAE/Dubai flexibility are welcome.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in DevOps, SRE or infrastructure roles.
• Strong cloud experience (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Hands-on with containers and orchestration (Docker/Kubernetes).
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins).
• IaC skills (Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Networking, security groups, VPNs, and zero-trust concepts.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate cloud infrastructure.
• Own CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• Maintain security, access control and secrets management.
• Monitor, log, and respond to incidents with post-mortems.
• Collaborate with developers to ship secure, reliable services.

Skills

DevOps

SRE

Cloud computing

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

Networking & security

Monitoring & logging

Secrets management

Java

Node/React

Reliability & incident response

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

GitLab CI

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

Our client is building a modern cross-border payments and financial infrastructure platform (exchange, clearing, messaging, digital currency) for banks and financial institutions. We're looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer (5+ years) to design, build, and operate our cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines.

Profile summary

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering roles
• Strong experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS/Azure/GCP)
• Hands-on with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Solid background in building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar)
• Strong infrastructure-as-code skills (Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar)
• Good understanding of networking, security groups, VPNs, and zero-trust concepts
• Experience implementing monitoring, logging, and alerting (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK, etc.)
• Familiarity with secrets management and security best practices (Vault, KMS, IAM)
• Comfortable supporting Java and Node/React-based applications in production
• Strong mindset around reliability, scalability, incident response, and post-mortems
• Bonus: experience in fintech/payments, high-availability systems, regulated environments, or ISO 27001/SOC2 practices

Languages and location

• Fluent English is a must (written and spoken)
• Location: strong preference for UAE, Dubai, with flexibility for remote candidates who are highly qualified

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys automating everything, making environments observable and reliable, and partnering closely with developers to ship secure, robust financial services at scale.