Senior DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities

• Architect, deploy, and manage Kubernetes clusters across hybrid cloud environments including GCP, OCI, and on-prem.
• Design and automate secure, scalable CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions or Jenkins.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, Ansible, and GitOps practices.
• Build and operate monitoring, observability, and alerting stacks such as Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK.
• Proactively address reliability, latency, and availability issues to meet strict SLA objectives.
• Lead on-call rotations and incident response, including conducting detailed postmortems and RCA reports.
• Champion security and compliance standards such as SOC 2 and ISO 27001.

Requirements

• 6+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) roles.
• Deep understanding of Linux systems administration and internals.
• Strong knowledge of networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, VPNs, routing, and firewalls).
• Proficiency with Kubernetes, Helm, and container orchestration.
• Expertise in Terraform for infrastructure automation.
• Strong scripting skills in Bash/Shell and at least one programming language like Python or Go.
• Hands-on experience with cloud providers, specifically GCP or OCI.

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous experience working in fintech or highly regulated, high-compliance industries.
• Familiarity with multi-cloud and hybrid cloud architectures.
• Experience with service mesh technologies like Istio or Linkerd.
• Exposure to Cloudflare or other edge/network security platforms.
• Experience with container lifecycle management and tools like ArgoCD.

About the Company

Lean Technologies is a leading financial infrastructure provider in the MENA region. Backed by General Catalyst and Sequoia, we provide the APIs that power payments, data, and lending for some of the region's largest companies. We are building the mission-critical financial data infrastructure that enables innovation across the Middle East.