Senior Platform Engineer (with experience on FinTech projects)

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Position overview

We are looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to own the hands-on, day-to-day engineering and reliability of Kubernetes-based application platforms. You will enable development and vendor teams to deploy microservices safely, consistently and independently through Helm, GitLab CI/CD, Argo CD and HashiCorp Vault. This is an operational engineering role that requires direct production experience. It is not solely architecture, coordination or traditional infrastructure support.

Project Overview Digital Bank in Saudi Arabia. You will be embracing 12 factor app philosophies and driving key deliverables to our applications and services. We believe in codification (Infrastructure and Configuration as code), automation, immutability, CI/CD and scalability — all for the benefit of our customers and users within a secure and continuously compliant environment.

Being the first ever startup in the digital banking space in Saudi Arabia, we are progressing at a rapid speed. Things are happening and happening often. Building greatness in a disruptive era requires strong ambition, talent, curiosity, diversity of thought and a belief that we’re better together. We want our colleagues to grow whilst with us so we’ve created an environment that encourages everyone to learn, challenge each other and create extraordinary experiences for themselves, their colleagues and our customers. Trust, Respect and Opportunity is key, and we’re very keen to show that in practice not just in written policy.

What technologies do we use on our projects Microservices architecture, Kubernetes (OKE, GKE), Helm, GitLab CI/CD (self-hosted), Argo CD (GitOps), HashiCorp Vault, Terraform/IaC.

YOUR BACKGROUND

  • 5+ years in DevOps/SRE/platform engineering with meaningful production ownership; 3+ years of hands-on Kubernetes operations and microservice deployments
  • Strong Kubernetes administration and troubleshooting: kubectl, scheduling, networking, DNS, ingress, persistent volumes, upgrades and high availability
  • Proven Helm chart authoring, templating, release management and troubleshooting
  • Production GitOps with Argo CD and CI/CD with GitLab, preferably self-hosted GitLab and runners
  • Practical HashiCorp Vault integration with Kubernetes, policies, auth methods, secrets management and secure delivery
  • Comfortable with Linux, Bash/Python scripting, Git, containers, Terraform/IaC fundamentals and cloud infrastructure basics
  • Experience supporting application developers directly and resolving complex live deployment incidents
  • Experience in FinTech, banking, accounting, or payment systems
  • English B2/C1

Skills that will be a plus:

  • Keycloak or ForgeRock identity and access management operations, SSO/OIDC/SAML integration and troubleshooting
  • Oracle Kubernetes Engine (OKE) and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), multi-cloud operations and disaster recovery
  • Prometheus/Grafana, Loki, network policies, service meshes, image registries and security scanning

Responsibilities

  • Own hands-on day-to-day engineering and reliability of Kubernetes-based application platforms
  • Enable development and vendor teams to deploy microservices safely, consistently and independently through Helm, GitLab CI/CD, Argo CD and HashiCorp Vault
  • Partner with developers and vendors to onboard microservices. Troubleshoot build, deployment, configuration, networking, ingress, secret and runtime issues across environments
  • Create, maintain, review and roll out Helm charts and values. Standardize reusable templates, environment-specific configuration, health probes, resource requests/limits and rollback procedures
  • Operate self-hosted GitLab CI/CD pipelines, runners and deployment workflows. Automate testing, packaging, promotion, releases and recovery where practical
  • Build and maintain Argo CD applications and projects, GitOps repositories, sync policies, RBAC and drift detection. Resolve failed syncs and deployments
  • Administer Kubernetes clusters (including OKE/GKE): namespaces, RBAC, service accounts, storage classes, ingress controllers, networking and essential add-ons
  • Engineer resilient workload placement and scaling: HPA, cluster autoscaling, topology spread constraints, node/pod affinity and anti-affinity, PodDisruptionBudgets, probes and graceful termination
  • Plan, test and execute Kubernetes control-plane, node-pool and add-on upgrades with compatibility checks, rollback plans and minimal downtime
  • Integrate HashiCorp Vault with Kubernetes for authentication and secret delivery. Operate policies, roles, Kubernetes auth, and Vault Secrets Operator/CSI or equivalent. Support troubleshooting of the dynamic-secret lifecycle
  • Own production incident investigation for platform-related failures using logs, events, metrics and traces. Perform root-cause analysis, document fixes and automate repetitive recovery
  • Build and operate shared PaaS-style platform capabilities. Improve self-service, observability, reliability, security and operational runbooks

WE OFFER

  • 20 billable days off in the first year of cooperation, all next years - 25 billable days off
  • Fair and competitive compensation
  • Friendly team and enjoyable working environment
  • Clearly described business processes in the company that really work
  • Regular updates on company news, Q&A sessions with top management
  • Flexible work schedule
  • Remote work mode
  • Ability to transfer unused vacation to the next year
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