Senior DevOps Engineer

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will work closely with Software Engineering, QA, and Product teams across time zones to create and maintain scalable, reliable release pipelines. Your role will be essential in supporting production systems, ensuring stability, and driving infrastructure automation while upholding security and compliance best practices.

About the Job

This role would help build the distributed system that allows our engineering teams to deploy our platform in multiple geographies across various deployment solutions. The position will closely work with our functional Heads within the software, QA and product teams to deliver scalable and customisable release pipelines.

Who are we

Lean enables companies to seamlessly connect to their users’ bank accounts to initiate real-time payments and retrieve their account information. Our products have garnered the trust of leading companies and enabled them to deliver powerful experiences when connected with a user’s bank account, allowing users to perform prudent financial planning, get better rates on loans, transfer money to friends, and more, without compromising on privacy or security.

Some of Lean’s clients include the likes of Binance, Etisalat Group, Careem, Sarwa, and many more, making it the region’s most valuable Open Banking platform. The company has now processed hundreds of millions of dollars, and its products are also connected with hundreds of thousands of accounts. Lean envisions a fully inclusive financial ecosystem that serves everyone, no matter where they bank or live in the MENAP region.

Responsibilities

• Distributed systems architecture – understand and manage the most complex systems

• Continual reliability and performance optimisation – enhancing observability stack to improve proactive detection and resolution of issues

• Employing cutting-edge methods and technologies, continually refining existing tools to enhance performance and drive advancements.

• Problem solving capabilities – troubleshooting complex issues and proactively reducing toil through automation

• Experience in technical leadership and setting technical direction for engineering projects

• Collaboration skills – working across teams to drive change and provide guidance

• Technical expertise – depth skills and ability to act as subject matter expert in one or more of: IAAC, observability, coding, reliability, debugging, system design

• Capacity planning – effectively forecasting demand and react to changes

• Analyze and improve efficiency, scalability, and stability of various system resources

• Incident response – rapidly detecting and resolving critical incidents. Minimizing customer impact through effective collaboration, escalation (including periodic on-call shifts) and postmortems.

Minimum Qualifications

• 8+ year experience in Systems Engineering, DevOps, or SRE roles running large-scale infrastructure, cloud, or web services

• Strong background in Linux/Unix Administration and networking concepts

• We work on OCI but would accept candidates with solid GCP /AWS or other cloud providers’ knowledge and experience.

• 3+ years of experience with managing Kubernetes clusters, Helm, Docker

• Experience in operating CI/CD pipelines that build and deliver services on the cloud and on-premise

• Work with CI/CD tools/services like Jenkins/GitHub-Actions/ArgoCD etc

• Experience with configuration management tools either Ansible, Chef, Puppet or equivalent

• Infrastructure As Code - Terraform

• Excellent knowledge on psql and mongodb

• Coding with one or more of the following: Java, Python and/or Go.

Desired Qualifications

• MultiCloud or Hybrid Cloud experience

• OCI and GCP

NB. While we think the above experience could be important, we’re keen to hear from people that believe they have valuable experience to bring to the role. If you identify with the team and mission, but not all of our requirements, then please still apply!!

Why Join us?

Lean is the first regulated open banking and open finance company operating across the UAE and Saudi Arabia.  Since 2019 we've been on a mission to become the pre-eminent A2A payments company in the Middle East - enabling our clients to seamlessly connect to their users’ bank accounts to initiate real-time payments and retrieve account information. Our products have garnered the trust of some of the leading companies in the region, including the likes of Etisalat Group, Careem, Binance, Tabby, Tamara, Tawuniya, and more.

To date, Lean has processed billions of dollars, and our products have connected with hundreds of thousands of accounts across the region. We've recently announced our $67.5 million Series B funding round led by General Catalyst, following earlier investment from Sequoia Capital. This funding marks a major milestone for Lean and the financial ecosystem across the MENA region. At Lean, we’re committed to driving the next generation of financial innovation by making financial data and payments more accessible and transparent for businesses and consumers alike.

To that end, we're always on the lookout for talented, driven, and entrepreneurial candidates to join us in our mission of enabling the next generation of financial innovation. If you're motivated by solving hard problems and leaving a lasting legacy while you're at it, Lean's where you need to be.

Not only do we offer competitive salaries, private healthcare, and flexible office hours, but we also insist that every member of the team hold a meaningful equity stake in the business to ensure long-term alignment. We'd love you to join us for this journey!

Lean is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.

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