About the Job
Lean Technologies is a fast-growing fintech company building the financial data infrastructure for the MENA region. Operating in a highly regulated, security-sensitive environment, we serve mission-critical financial services that demand robust SLAs, tight security controls, and scalable, high-performance systems.
As a Senior DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer, you will work at the intersection of DevOps, cloud infrastructure, and SRE. You’ll own the architecture, automation, reliability, and observability of our hybrid cloud infrastructure across multiple regions and environments. You’ll troubleshoot complex problems across the stack—from networking and Linux internals to Kubernetes and cloud-native applications, ensuring the platform remains secure, fast, and reliable.
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 Tabby, Nayifat, Tamam, Circlys, and many more, making it the region’s most valuable Open Banking platform. The company has now processed over a billion 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 MENA region.
What You’ll Do
Architect, deploy, and manage Kubernetes clusters across hybrid cloud environments (GCP, OCI, and on-prem).
Design and automate secure, scalable CI/CD pipelines for microservices and backend systems using GitHub Actions/Jenkins.
Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) across multi-region, multi-environment setups using Terraform/Ansible and GitOps practices.
Build and operate monitoring, observability, and alerting stacks (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry , ELK . )
Proactively identify and address reliability, latency, and availability issues to meet strict SLA objectives.
Participate in and lead on-call rotations and incident response, conducting detailed postmortems and RCA reports.
Automate infrastructure lifecycle tasks: provisioning, scaling, configuration management, and patching.
Champion security, compliance (SOC 2, ISO 27001), and infrastructure reliability best practices.
Collaborate with engineering teams to improve internal platforms, tooling, and developer productivity.
Must-Have Technical Skills
6+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps and/or Site Reliability Engineering roles.
Deep understanding of:
Linux systems administration and internals
Networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, VPNs, routing, firewall policies)
Kubernetes/Helm/Containers (Setup and day 2 operations/troubleshotting)
Terraform for infrastructure automation
Strong scripting and automation with bash/shell and at preferably at least one language: Python or Go
Cloud expertise with OCI or GCP, ideally both.
Additional Technical Experience
CI/CD tools: GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Jenkins
Docker and container lifecycle management
Logging and tracing (e.g., ELK stack, OpenTelemetry)
Operational experience with PostgreSQL , MongoDB, Redis
Security hardening and cloud compliance frameworks ( CIS level 1 , etc )
Performance tuning and troubleshooting in distributed environments
Desired Qualifications
Previous experience in fintech or high-compliance regulated industries
Familiarity with multi-cloud and hybrid architectures
Exposure to Cloudflare or other edge/network security platforms
Strong documentation habits and experience contributing to runbooks
Passion for resilient system design and cross-functional infrastructure challenges
Experience with service mesh technologies (e.g., Istio, Linkerd)
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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