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. Were 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.