Role overview

Lean Technologies is a fintech company building financial data infrastructure for the MENA region, having processed billions of dollars in transactions and serving over 350 clients including major regional companies. As a Staff DevOps and Site Reliability Engineer, you will define and own the infrastructure architecture, reliability strategy, and scalability across hybrid and multi-cloud environments in a mission-critical, security-sensitive setting. This is a leadership role where you drive how infrastructure is built, operated, and scaled company-wide, not simply implement existing strategies.

Key responsibilities

Define and own the infrastructure architecture strategy across hybrid cloud environments including GCP, OCI, and on-premises infrastructure.
Design and evolve Kubernetes platforms to deliver multi-region scalability, resilience, and cost efficiency at scale.
Establish Infrastructure as Code and GitOps standards across all environments and drive adoption across the organization.
Build and scale observability systems including metrics, logging, and tracing to support proactive reliability and system monitoring.
Lead efforts to meet and exceed SLA, SLO, and error budget targets across the platform.
Own and improve incident management processes, conduct postmortems, and implement systemic fixes to prevent recurrence.
Champion security, compliance, and reliability best practices including SOC 2, ISO 27001, and CIS benchmarks.
Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership across DevOps and infrastructure domains.

Requirements

Minimum 8 years of professional experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Platform Engineering roles.
Deep expertise in Linux systems internals, networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, VPNs, routing, firewalls), and Kubernetes design and operations.
Strong proficiency with Terraform or equivalent Infrastructure as Code tools and solid programming or scripting skills in languages such as Python or Go.
Demonstrated experience designing and operating distributed systems at scale and working with multi-cloud or hybrid cloud environments.
Hands-on experience with CI/CD systems, containerization, Docker, observability stacks like Prometheus and Grafana, and common datastores including PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Redis.
Understanding of security and compliance frameworks such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, and CIS benchmarks.
Experience in fintech or highly regulated environments is strongly valued, along with familiarity with multi-region and high-availability architectures.

What makes this role worth considering

Lean has experienced rapid growth, tripling in size over the past year with plans to triple again, positioning this role as critical to scaling a platform serving mission-critical financial services across the MENA region. The company is backed by prominent investors including General Catalyst and Sequoia, and offers competitive salaries, private healthcare, flexible office hours, and meaningful equity stakes for all team members to ensure long-term alignment.