Location
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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 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.
Responsibilities
Manage and maintain Kubernetes clusters in both cloud and on-premise environments.
Develop, optimize, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for microservices and infrastructure.
Monitor system health and performance using Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and the ELK stack.
Deploy and manage infrastructure as code using Terraform and Ansible.
Troubleshoot and resolve production issues, ensuring system reliability and stability.
Participate in the on-call rotation for incident response and support.
Implement and enforce security best practices across infrastructure and applications.
Develop automation scripts to streamline operations and improve efficiency.
Maintain up-to-date infrastructure documentation and operational runbooks.
Minimum Qualifications
3–5 years of hands-on experience in DevOps or SRE roles.
Proficiency with:
+ Kubernetes and Helm
+ Docker and containerization technologies
+ Terraform for infrastructure automation
+ CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or similar
+ Any major cloud provider (OCI, AWS, or GCP)
+ Linux system administration
+ Shell scripting (Python experience is a plus)
Working knowledge of:
+ Relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, or equivalent)
+ Monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, etc.)
+ Basic networking concepts and troubleshooting
+ Log analysis and debugging
Desired Qualifications
Experience in the fintech industry or other highly regulated environments.
Cloud certifications (AWS, GCP, OCI, or Kubernetes-related certifications)
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!!
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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