Staff DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities

• Define and own the infrastructure architecture strategy across hybrid cloud environments (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 including metrics, logging, and 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 such as SOC 2 and ISO 27001
• Partner with engineering teams to improve developer experience and platform usability
• Mentor engineers and act as a technical leader across DevOps and infrastructure domains

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering
• Strong experience designing and operating distributed systems at scale
• Deep expertise in Linux systems, internals, and networking (TCP/IP, DNS, VPNs, routing, firewalls)
• Deep knowledge of Kubernetes (design, operations, and troubleshooting) and Terraform
• Proficiency in programming or scripting with Python, Go, or similar languages
• Experience with multi-cloud or hybrid cloud environments

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in fintech or highly regulated environments
• Strong understanding of multi-region and high-availability architectures
• Exposure to edge/network platforms like Cloudflare
• Experience with service mesh technologies such as Istio or Linkerd
• Strong documentation and runbook culture

About the Company

Lean Technologies is the leading financial infrastructure provider in the Middle East. We power some of the region’s largest companies with APIs that enable payments, account verification, and financial data access. Backed by General Catalyst and Sequoia, we are a multi-product infrastructure company powering payments, data, and lending across the MENA region.