DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer Digital Assets Infrastructure

Location: UAE (ideally Dubai)

Salary: up to 30,000 AED per month

A rapidly growing institutional digital assets trading platform backed by major global financial institutions is hiring a DevOps Engineer to join its technology team in Dubai.

This organisation provides sophisticated investors with secure access to top-tier digital assets through a highly regulated exchange and brokerage platform. The team combines deep financial markets expertise with modern cloud and trading infrastructure, operating with strict requirements around uptime, security, and compliance.

The DevOps Engineer will play a key role in supporting and scaling a complex production platform running 50+ microservices across multiple environments (Dev, UAT, Production). You will work closely with engineering and business stakeholders to ensure systems remain stable, secure, and highly performant.

Key Responsibilities

Infrastructure & Operations

Administer and troubleshoot Kubernetes clusters supporting multiple environments and microservices

Manage AWS infrastructure including EC2, VPC, and RDS to maintain a secure and resilient environment

Implement and maintain GitOps workflows using FluxCD

Manage GitLab CI/CD pipelines to support continuous integration and deployment

Security, Compliance & Platform Support

Ensure infrastructure adheres to security, compliance, and risk standards in a regulated environment

Manage sensitive configuration and secrets using AWS KMS and Parameter Store

Implement monitoring and observability using Grafana and log aggregation tools

Provide platform support, triage incidents, and ensure issues are resolved quickly

Projects & Optimisation

Support upgrades, system implementations, and platform improvements

Work with internal stakeholders and third-party vendors to ensure SLAs are met

Apply best practices to optimise infrastructure reliability and performance

Ideal Background

Strong experience administering Kubernetes clusters in production environments

Deep knowledge of AWS infrastructure

Hands-on experience with GitOps (FluxCD) and CI/CD pipelines (GitLab)

Experience with monitoring, logging, and observability tooling

Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code principles

Experience operating in regulated or security-focused environments is a plus

Personal Attributes

Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills

Comfortable working in fast-paced, production-critical environments

Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills

Self-starter with the ability to learn new technologies quickly

This is an opportunity to work on mission-critical trading infrastructure in one of the fastest growing sectors of financial technology.

If you'd like to learn more, please apply below.