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Payfuture

DevOps Engineer

Payfuture
United Arab Emirates · Full-time · Mid-Senior

About The Job

We are seeking a skilled and proactive DevOps Engineer to join our growing team and take ownership of our infrastructure and deployment ecosystem. The ideal candidate will not only have deep technical expertise but also prior experience working within regulated banking or financial systems.

You will be instrumental in scaling and securing our Kubernetes environments, automating CI/CD pipelines, and ensuring reliability through strong monitoring, backups, and disaster recovery strategies—all while keeping compliance, security, and system integrity top of mind.

As our DevOps Engineer, you will have these main objectives:

  • Manage and scale Kubernetes environments (Minikube to GKE) in production
  • Automate and optimize CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI/CD and Helm
  • Implement and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform and Helm
  • Set up robust monitoring, alerting, and logging using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK, and GCP Logging
  • Manage secrets and credentials with GCP Secret Manager and/or HashiCorp Vault
  • Enforce security best practices, including IAM configurations, firewall rules, vulnerability scanning (Trivy), TLS/mTLS setup
  • Design and implement backup and recovery strategies using Velero and GCP snapshots
  • Manage DNS, ingress, and certificate management (Cloud DNS, NGINX Ingress, cert-manager)
  • Ensure infrastructure and deployment processes meet regulatory and compliance standards for banking systems


Requirements

You will be a good fit if you:

  • Are aligned with our values of -
    • Belief
    • Transparency
    • Accountability & Ownership
    • Relentlessness
    • Speed
  • Proven experience managing production-grade Kubernetes clusters, preferably on GKE
  • Hands-on expertise in CI/CD automation using GitLab pipelines and Helm
  • Solid understanding of infrastructure scaling, failover strategies, and cost optimization
  • Strong familiarity with GCP networking, security, and IAM
  • Proficient in scripting (Bash, Python, or Go) for automation tasks
  • Experience implementing centralized monitoring and logging pipelines
  • Prior experience working with banking or financial systems, with a clear understanding of regulatory, security, and compliance requirements

Benefits

  • Receive a competitive salary
  • Be enrolled into our Employee Share Option Scheme
  • Get the opportunity to be part of a rapidly growing business, providing an unrivalled opportunity to develop your skillset
  • Be part of a collaborative, values-led team that is working hard to revolutionise payments in emerging markets
  • Receive additional benefits as we grow

Key Skills

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cicd gcp kubernetes devops gitlab dns infrastructure as code technical expertise prometheus terraform firewall grafana python cloud nginx bash
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Posted
Apr 02, 2025
Type
Full-time
Level
Mid-Senior
Location
Dubai
Company
Payfuture

Industries

IT Services IT Consulting

Categories

Information Technology

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