DevOps Engineer

Finanshels.com is the UAE's leading tech-enabled accounting and tax platform, trusted by thousands of startups and SMBs across the MENA region. They are seeking a hands-on DevOps Engineer to own and evolve the infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud systems that power their platform while ensuring scalability, reliability, and security.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and highly available cloud infrastructure to support production systems
• Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines to enable fast, reliable, and repeatable deployments across environments
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to standardize and automate provisioning and configuration management
• Monitor system performance, availability, and reliability; set up alerting, logging, and observability tooling to proactively catch and resolve issues
• Manage containerization and orchestration of services (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) to support scalable microservices architecture
• Own incident response and troubleshooting for production issues, driving root cause analysis and long-term fixes
• Implement and maintain security best practices across infrastructure, including access controls, secrets management, and vulnerability management
• Collaborate with engineering teams to improve developer experience, deployment velocity, and system reliability
• Manage cloud cost optimization, capacity planning, and infrastructure scaling as the platform grows
• Ensure infrastructure and processes meet compliance and data protection standards appropriate to a regulated financial services environment
• Maintain disaster recovery, backup, and business continuity plans for critical systems
• Document infrastructure architecture, runbooks, and operational processes

Requirements:

• Proven experience as a DevOps Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, or similar role managing production infrastructure at scale
• Strong experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and core cloud services (compute, networking, storage, IAM)
• Hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration tools such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi
• Strong experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, CircleCI)
• Proficiency in scripting/programming languages such as Python, Bash, or Go for automation
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK/EFK stack)
• Solid understanding of networking, DNS, load balancing, and security fundamentals
• Experience managing relational and/or NoSQL databases in production, including backup and recovery strategies
• Strong troubleshooting skills and experience owning on-call/incident response processes
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work cross-functionally with engineering and product teams
• Experience working in fintech, accounting, or other regulated/compliance-heavy industries
• Familiarity with security and compliance frameworks (e.g., SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR)
• Experience with GitOps workflows (e.g., ArgoCD, Flux)
• Exposure to serverless architectures and event-driven systems
• Experience supporting data engineering or ML infrastructure (e.g., Airflow, Spark, model serving pipelines)