Senior DevOps Engineer

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