Staff DevOps Engineer

Job Description Roles & Responsibilities Lean is expanding our footprint by opening an office in Egypt this summer, and the Staff DevOps Engineer role is one of our first hires in the market. We re a Series B fintech (General Catalyst and Sequoia backed), and over the last few years, we have grown from a category-defining open banking company into a multi-rail infrastructure layer powering payments, data, and lending across MENA. Cairo is a long-term bet on a market we believe in, and the people who join now will shape what Lean looks like there for years to come. You will be working alongside a very diverse team of 30+ nationalities, with backgrounds from some of the best fintechs in the region and globally. The work is hard, the standards are high, and the ownership is real. If you are a builder who wants to set the standard, this is the right moment to join. About the role As a Staff DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer, you will operate at the intersection of DevOps, platform engineering, and SRE, owning the architecture, reliability strategy, and scalability of our infrastructure across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. This is a high-impact role where you will define how infrastructure is built, operated, and scaled across the company, not just implement it. What You ll Do Define and own the infrastructure architecture strategy across hybrid cloud (GCP, OCI, on-prem) Design and evolve Kubernetes platforms for multi-region scalability, resilience, and cost efficiency Establish and drive Infrastructure as Code and GitOps standards across all environments Build and scale observability systems (metrics, logging, tracing) to support proactive reliability Lead efforts to meet and exceed SLA, SLO, and error budget targets Own and improve incident management processes, including postmortems and systemic fixes Drive automation strategy across provisioning, scaling, patching, and operations Champion security, compliance, and reliability best practices (SOC 2, ISO 27001, CIS benchmarks) Partner with engineering teams to improve developer experience and platform usability Mentor engineers and act as a technical leader across DevOps and infrastructure domains Must-Have Technical Skills 8+ years of experience in DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineering Strong experience designing and operating distributed systems at scale Deep expertise in: Linux systems and internals Networking (TCP/IP, DNS, VPNs, routing, firewalls) Kubernetes (design, operations, and troubleshooting) Terraform (or equivalent IaC tools) Strong programming/scripting skills (Python, Go, or similar) Experience with multi-cloud or hybrid cloud environments (GCP, OCI preferred) Additional Technical Experience: CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ArgoCD) Containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) Observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, OpenTelemetry) Datastores: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis Security and compliance frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001, CIS) Performance optimization in distributed systems Desired Qualifications Experience in fintech or highly regulated environments Strong understanding of multi-region and high-availability architectures Exposure to edge/network platforms (e.g., Cloudflare) Experience with service mesh (Istio, Linkerd) Strong documentation and runbook culture Passion for building resilient, scalable infrastructure platforms Desired Candidate Profile Must-Have Technical Skills 8+ years of experience in DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineering Strong experience designing and operating distributed systems at scale Deep expertise in: Linux systems and internals Networking (TCP/IP, DNS, VPNs, routing, firewalls) Kubernetes (design, operations, and troubleshooting) Terraform (or equivalent IaC tools) Strong programming/scripting skills (Python, Go, or similar) Experience with multi-cloud or hybrid cloud environments (GCP, OCI preferred) Additional Technical Experience: CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ArgoCD) Containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) Observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, OpenTelemetry) Datastores: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis Security and compliance frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001, CIS) Performance optimization in distributed systems Desired Qualifications Experience in fintech or highly regulated environments Strong understanding of multi-region and high-availability architectures Exposure to edge/network platforms (e.g., Cloudflare) Experience with service mesh (Istio, Linkerd) Strong documentation and runbook culture Passion for building resilient, scalable infrastructure platforms NB. While we think the above experience could be important, we re keen to hear from people that believe they have valuable experience to bring to the role. If you identify with the team and mission, but not all of our requirements, then please still apply!! Company Industry IT - Software Services Department / Functional Area Engineering Keywords Staff DevOps Engineer Get real-time job updates only on our App