Job Description

Job Title:

Senior/Lead DevOps Engineer

Location:

UAE ( Sharjah/Dubai)

Employment Type:

Full?time

About VaultsPay

VaultsPay is scaling its acquiring & e?commerce payments platform (POS/SoftPOS, payment links, DCC, Visa Direct, Aani UAEIPP). We are looking for a DevOps leader to design, operate, and improve a secure, observable, and cost-efficient platform on AWS/EKS with strong release safety, SRE practices, and compliance (PCI/SOC2).

What You'll Do

Define SLIs/SLOs, maintain error budgets, and drive platform reliability. Implement safe CI/CD with automated tests, blue/green & canary rollouts (Argo Rollouts) and auto-rollbacks. Harden security: image signing, SBOM, secrets management, PodSecurity, NetworkPolicies, and just-in-time access. Improve observability: OpenTelemetry pipelines, logs/traces correlation, dashboards, and SLO reporting. Optimize costs: right-size resources, Karpenter provisioning, HPA/VPA tuning, FinOps practices. Lead incidents and postmortems; create runbooks, templates, and training. Partner with Product, Backend, and Security teams on capacity, compliance, and roadmap planning.

Tech You'll Work With

AWS, EKS, Argo CD & Rollouts, Terraform/Terragrunt, GitHub Actions, Prometheus/Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Elastic APM, Secrets Manager, Cilium, Aurora/DynamoDB, SQS/SNS/Kafka.

Qualifications

Senior:

5+ years on cloud & Kubernetes, hands-on with GitOps, CI/CD, observability, Terraform, and security best practices.

Lead:

8-10+ years overall with 2+ years leading platform/SRE strategy, DR planning, cost optimization, mentoring, and compliance automation.

Nice to Have:

Payments/fintech, PCI experience, service mesh (Istio/Linkerd), Karpenter autoscaling, Vector/Fluent Bit/Loki.

Benefits:

Competitive salary & bonus, medical insurance, paid time off, modern tech stack, and ownership.

Job Type: Full-time