Staff DevOps & SRE Architect — Fintech Scale

Lean Technologies; Dubai; Hybrid; AED 400,000 - 600,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salaries

Private healthcare

Flexible office hours

Meaningful equity stake

Job summary

Lean Technologies is redefining fintech infrastructure in the MENA region. The Staff DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer will own architecture, reliability strategy, and scalability across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

You will shape baseline IaC, GitOps, and observability while leading incident response and security practices. This role demands leadership and deep cloud-native expertise to support rapid growth.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineering.
• Strong experience designing and operating distributed systems at scale.

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.

Skills

Distributed systems design

SRE best practices

Security/compliance

Mentorship

DevOps strategy

Platform engineering

Education

Bachelor's or higher in CS/Engineering

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

Docker

GitHub Actions

ArgoCD

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Lean Technologies is redefining fintech infrastructure in the MENA region. The Staff DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer will own architecture, reliability strategy, and scalability across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

You will shape baseline IaC, GitOps, and observability while leading incident response and security practices. This role demands leadership and deep cloud-native expertise to support rapid growth.