DevOps Engineer

DropXcell; Kerala; On-site; INR 6,500,000 - 10,920,000; Full time

Job summary

Finanshels is seeking a hands-on DevOps Engineer to own and evolve the infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud systems powering its fintech platform. You will work with engineering, product, and security teams to ensure scalable, reliable, and secure systems with fast iteration in a regulated environment.

You will design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure, IaC, and container orchestration, while driving dev velocity, observability, and security compliance across production services.

Qualifications

• Experience designing scalable cloud infrastructure for production systems.
• Proficient in building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Hands-on with container orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi for IaC.
• Scripting in Python, Bash, or Go for automation.
• Familiarity with monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog).
• Strong understanding of networking, security fundamentals, and data protection.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure cloud infrastructure for production systems.
• Develop and optimize CI/CD pipelines enabling fast, reliable deployments.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code to standardize provisioning and configuration.
• Monitor performance, availability, and reliability; set up alerts and logs.
• Manage containerization/orchestration for microservices (Docker/Kubernetes).
• Lead incident response with root cause analysis and permanent fixes.
• Enforce security best practices across infrastructure and access controls.
• Collaborate with engineering to improve developer experience and deployment velocity.
• Oversee cloud cost optimization, capacity planning, and scaling.

Skills

Cloud platforms

CI/CD pipelines

Containerization

Infrastructure as Code

Automation scripting

Monitoring & observability

Security fundamentals

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

GitHub Actions

CI tools (Jenkins/CircleCI)

Job description

Finanshels.com is the UAE's leading tech-enabled accounting and tax platform, trusted by thousands of startups and SMBs across the MENA region. We combine automation, real-time financial insights, and expert finance professionals to help founders manage bookkeeping, VAT, corporate tax, and compliance on a single platform. As we scale, we're investing heavily in building resilient, secure, and highly available infrastructure — and we're looking for a DevOps Engineer to help us get there.

About the Role

We're looking for a hands-on DevOps Engineer to own and evolve the infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud systems that power Finanshels' platform. You'll work closely with engineering, product, and security teams to ensure our systems are scalable, reliable, secure, and fast to iterate on — all in a fintech environment where uptime and data integrity matter.

What You'll Do

• Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and highly available cloud infrastructure to support production systems.
• Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines to enable fast, reliable, and repeatable deployments across environments.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to standardize and automate provisioning and configuration management.
• Monitor system performance, availability, and reliability; set up alerting, logging, and observability tooling to proactively catch and resolve issues.
• Manage containerization and orchestration of services (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) to support scalable microservices architecture.
• Own incident response and troubleshooting for production issues, driving root cause analysis and long-term fixes.
• Implement and maintain security best practices across infrastructure, including access controls, secrets management, and vulnerability management.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to improve developer experience, deployment velocity, and system reliability.
• Manage cloud cost optimization, capacity planning, and infrastructure scaling as the platform grows.
• Ensure infrastructure and processes meet compliance and data protection standards appropriate to a regulated financial services environment.
• Maintain disaster recovery, backup, and business continuity plans for critical systems.
• Document infrastructure architecture, runbooks, and operational processes.

What We're Looking For

• Proven experience as a DevOps Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, or similar role managing production infrastructure at scale.
• Strong experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and core cloud services (compute, networking, storage, IAM).
• Hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration tools such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi.
• Strong experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, CircleCI).
• Proficiency in scripting/programming languages such as Python, Bash, or Go for automation.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK/EFK stack).
• Solid understanding of networking, DNS, load balancing, and security fundamentals.
• Experience managing relational and/or NoSQL databases in production, including backup and recovery strategies.
• Strong troubleshooting skills and experience owning on-call/incident response processes.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work cross-functionally with engineering and product teams.

Nice to Have

• Experience working in fintech, accounting, or other regulated/compliance-heavy industries.
• Familiarity with security and compliance frameworks (e.g., SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR).
• Experience with GitOps workflows (e.g., ArgoCD, Flux).
• Exposure to serverless architectures and event-driven systems.
• Experience supporting data engineering or ML infrastructure (e.g., Airflow, Spark, model serving pipelines).

Why Join Finanshels

• Be part of a fast-growing fintech reshaping how startups and SMBs across the MENA region manage their finances.
• Own critical infrastructure decisions with real impact on product reliability and scale.
• Collaborative, founder-led culture that values ownership, speed, and continuous learning.
• Competitive compensation and the opportunity to shape engineering practices at a scaling company.