About the job
Lean Technologies is building financial data infrastructure for the MENA region, serving a highly regulated market with strict security and reliability requirements. The company supports mission-critical financial services, focusing on scalable systems and high service levels.
Role overview
This Staff DevOps Engineer position combines DevOps, platform engineering, and site reliability engineering (SRE) principles. The role shapes how Lean's infrastructure is architected, managed, and scaled across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Rather than following set plans, this position influences the direction and standards of infrastructure company-wide.
Company growth and scale
Lean has tripled its workforce in the past year and expects similar growth ahead. Originally launched as the region’s first Open Finance platform, Lean now provides multi-product infrastructure for payments, data, and lending across MENA. The company processes billions in transactions and serves over 350 clients, including Tabby, Tas'heel, and Hungerstation, with backing from investors like General Catalyst, Sequoia, and Shorooq. As Lean expands into new markets and products, infrastructure complexity and scale are increasing. This role is key to ensuring secure, reliable, and efficient scaling.
What you will do
- Define and lead infrastructure architecture strategy across hybrid cloud environments (GCP, OCI, on-premises).
- Design and improve Kubernetes platforms for multi-region scalability, resilience, and cost management.
- Set and promote Infrastructure as Code and GitOps standards for all environments.
- Develop and scale observability systems, including metrics, logging, and tracing, to support proactive reliability.
- Lead efforts to meet and exceed SLA, SLO, and error budget goals.
- Oversee and refine incident management, including postmortems and systemic improvements.
- Drive automation for provisioning, scaling, patching, and operational tasks.
- Advocate for security, compliance, and reliability best practices, including SOC 2, ISO 27001, and CIS benchmarks.
- Work with engineering teams to improve developer experience and platform efficiency.

