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Lean Technologies is a fast-growing fintech company building financial data infrastructure for the MENA region. The company has tripled in size over the past year and is on track to triple again, processing billions in transactions and serving 350+ clients including Tabby, Tasʼheel, and Hungerstation. Backed by General Catalyst, Sequoia, and Shorooq, Lean operates in a highly regulated, security-sensitive environment requiring robust SLAs, strict security controls, and highly scalable systems.
As a Staff DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer, you will operate at the intersection of DevOps, platform engineering, and SRE, owning the architecture, reliability strategy, and scalability of infrastructure across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. This is a high-impact role where you define how infrastructure is built, operated, and scaled across the company—not just implement it.
Key responsibilities include:
- Define and own infrastructure architecture strategy across hybrid cloud (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 (metrics, logging, 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 (SOC 2, ISO 27001, CIS benchmarks)
- Partner with engineering teams to improve developer experience and platform usability
- Mentor engineers and act as a technical leader across DevOps and infrastructure domains
The role demands expertise in designing and operating distributed systems at scale in a fintech context. You will work with mission-critical financial services and help scale infrastructure to support rapid growth across new markets and products.
REQUIREMENTS:
Must-have:
- 8+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering
- Strong experience designing and operating distributed systems at scale
- Deep expertise in: Linux systems and internals, networking (TCP/IP, DNS, VPNs, routing, firewalls), Kubernetes (design, operations, troubleshooting), Terraform or equivalent IaC tools, strong programming/scripting skills (Python, Go, or similar), multi-cloud or hybrid cloud environments (GCP, OCI preferred)
Additional technical experience valued:
- CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ArgoCD)
- Containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, OpenTelemetry)
- Datastores: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis
- Security and compliance frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001, CIS)
- Performance optimization in distributed systems
Desired qualifications:
- Experience in fintech or highly regulated environments
- Strong understanding of multi-region and high-availability architectures
- Exposure to edge/network platforms (e.g., Cloudflare)
- Experience with service mesh (Istio, Linkerd)
- Strong documentation and runbook culture
- Passion for building resilient, scalable infrastructure platforms
The company welcomes applications from candidates who identify with the team and mission even if they don't meet all requirements.
