DevOps Engineer

Senior DevOps Engineer

Fintech

Dubai, UAE (must be willing to relocate)

Kubernetes, GCP/AWS or Azure, Bash, Node.js, TypeScript

To be discussed upon application (equity is included)

Do you want to build the next-generation finance app & digital bank

orbit is excited to partner with an exceptional award-winning fintech start-up based in the UAE. Our client is embarking on a dynamic growth trajectory and is seeking outstanding talent to own their web platform and contribute towards building a world-class engineering team.

Having established a robust foundation for their product, they are now seeking an individual to spearhead the development of innovative features, fortify their technology for scalability, and contribute to shaping an engineering organization that attracts top talent from across the region. As an integral member of a fast-paced team, you will play a key role, the ideal candidate is a creative thinker excited to solve hard problems and to build something from the ground up.

The ideal candidate is a creative thinker excited to solve hard problems and to build something from the ground up. They move quickly and need someone who can clearly articulate trade-offs, and have the judgement to own features independently. They are obsessive about delivering great, high-quality products to their users, and are ambitious and excited to build big things, they are looking for owners, builders and do-ers!

What will you be doing

• Collaborate with world-class product, design, operations, and engineering teams to determine which features and solutions will deliver the most value for the business and the best experience for the users.
• Own, build and operate end-to-end reliable, scalable, and maintainable platform that will keep their applications scalable, stable, secure and highly-available. You will take features from design, to implementation, to polish, to shipping, to monitoring and measuring progress.
• Improve CI/CD workflows to reduce time-to-market for new features.
• Review code and mentor other engineers on the team.
• Help shape their engineering culture by introducing good practices and methods of knowledge-sharing.

What key skills will you bring to the team

• Be an owner and a team player.
• Be curious and eager to grow.
• Be able to define and effectively communicate technical and design requirements.
• Be able to write clean, high-quality, testable, reusable, and well-documented code.
• Possess strong data-driven thinking and customer focus.
• Possess excellent communication skills and a desire to collaborate.
• Live in, or be willing to relocate to the UAE.

You should apply if...

• You have DevOps/SRE experience
• You have substantial experience with a popular CSP (GCP, AWS, Azure), Database Management, Containerization and IaC frameworks.
• You have experience building and operating complex, distributed and highly available platforms.
• You have experience running, supporting and managing infrastructures and platforms including security, networks, containerization, automation, monitoring, etc.
• You have experience working on transactional and event based systems.
• You have experience or are ok with being part of on-call rosters, involving incident response
• You are based in, or willing to relocate to Dubai.

Benefits

• Excellent base salary with equity options (income tax is 0% in Dubai, meaning you keep every penny)
• Golden Visa
• Flexible work
• Unlimited Vacation
• The best healthcare insurance
• Education stipend
• Paid Parental Leave

If you are interested in this role then please apply now, if you would like further information then please email [Confidential Information]