Summary
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A senior DevOps role focused on building, maintaining, and improving cloud infrastructure and automation for a scalable financial technology platform. You will ensure stable and secure systems, streamline deployments, resolve incidents, and help evolve infrastructure as the organization grows. The position is onsite in Saudi Arabia.
Highlights
Build and improve cloud infrastructure and automation for a growing financial technology environment, with strong ownership of system stability, security, deployments, incident resolution, and infrastructure evolution.
Description
About Us:
Staq is a leading Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) and embedded finance platform, transforming the way businesses integrate banking and financial services.
At Staq, we empower our clients to innovate, expand, and streamline their financial services offerings using our cutting-edge platform.
Our mission is to bridge the gap between traditional banking and the digital era by providing seamless, scalable, and secure financial solutions.
Role Purpose
The Senior DevOps Engineer is responsible for building, maintaining and improving the cloud infrastructure and automation that power Staq’s BaaS platform.
This role focuses on stability, security and seamless deployments across all environments.
You will work closely with Technology to ensure our systems run smoothly, incidents are resolved quickly and our infrastructure continues to evolve as we scale.
Please note, this role is based on site in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Key Responsibilities
Build and manage cloud infrastructure using Terraform/Terragrunt on AWS or OCIDevelop and improve CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Bash/Groovy, Docker, GitHub and HelmConfigure and support Kubernetes clusters to ensure performance, availability and scalabilityEnhance monitoring, logging, alerting and tracing with tools like Grafana, Loki, Prometheus, Thanos, Elasticsearch and JaegerSupport and automate application deployments for Node.js, Java and other servicesImprove security, reliability and operational workflows across environmentsTroubleshoot infrastructure, networking and deployment issuesMaintain clear DevOps documentation and internal best practices.
Qualifications & Experience
5+ years of experience as a DevOps EngineerStrong Linux administration experienceDeep experience with Kubernetes, Docker and container orchestrationHands-on experience with AWS (EC2, VPC, Load Balancers, RDS) or OCIProficiency with Terraform/Terragrunt and Infrastructure-as-Code workflowsExperience with Jenkins, CI/CD pipelines and automation scriptingUnderstanding of web servers and reverse proxies (Nginx, HAProxy)Experience deploying and supporting Node.js or Java applications.
What Would Make Someone Excellent in This Role
Experience securing and scaling Kubernetes clusters in productionExperience in fintech, payments or other high-scale, regulated environmentsFamiliarity with Vault, Kafka, Keycloak, Nexus or Elasticsearch.
What We Offer
A competitive salaryRemote-first, flexible work arrangementsThe opportunity to build and scale infrastructure for a cutting-edge fintech platformA supportive, collaborative engineering environmentThe chance to make a meaningful impact on a fast-growing BaaS company.
