Senior Operations Engineer

Caliberly; Dubai; Hybrid; AED 120,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A fintech company in Dubai is seeking a Senior Operations Engineer to manage production upgrades and ensure the stability of critical systems. The ideal candidate should have over 5 years of experience in IT operations, robust skills in managing production environments, and familiarity with cloud platforms. Fluency in English is essential. This full-time role also welcomes highly qualified remote candidates and focuses on maintaining operational efficiency and rapid incident handling.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in IT operations or production operations.
• Strong experience in production upgrades and maintenance.
• Hands-on experience with Linux-based environments.

Responsibilities

• Run production upgrades and maintain production environments.
• Supervise production environments and act as L2 support.
• Manage and monitor production infrastructure.

Skills

IT operations

Production operations

SRE roles

Linux administration

Networking basics

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana)

Scripting (Bash, Python)

Incident response

Job description

Job Title -Senior Operations Engineer

Our client is building a modern cross-border payments and financial infrastructure platform (exchange, clearing, messaging, digital currency) for banks and financial institutions. We are looking for a Senior IT Operations Engineer to run production upgrades, supervise and maintain our production environments and infrastructure, and act as L2 support for sustaining operations.

Profile summary

• 5+ years of experience in IT operations / production operations / SRE roles
• Strong experience running and coordinating production upgrades, deployments, and maintenance windows
• Hands‑on experience administering Linux-based environments (installation, configuration, hardening, troubleshooting)
• Good understanding of networking basics (DNS, load balancers, firewalls, VPN, TLS certificates)
• Experience managing and monitoring production infrastructure (VMs/instances, containers, storage, databases, message brokers)
• Familiar with major cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP) and infrastructure tooling
• Experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK, or similar)
• Comfortable writing simple scripts/automation (Bash, Python, or similar) to streamline operational tasks
• Strong incident response skills: triage, escalation, communication, and post‑incident follow‑up
• Act as L2 support for production issues: reproducing problems, collecting diagnostics, working with developers to drive resolution, and documenting workarounds
• Familiar with change management, release management, and production governance processes
• Bonus: experience in fintech/payments, high‑availability systems, or regulated environments

Engagement

• Typically a full‑time role focused on production operations, upgrades, and sustaining support for the Xabeta platform

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 keeping critical systems healthy, stable, and up to date, and who takes pride in smooth production operations and fast, well‑structured incident handling.