About Tabadulat
We are a retail Islamic brokerage start-up based in Abu Dhabi, UAE, building a modern trading and investing platform for customers seeking Sharia-compliant products in the GCC and beyond. We also power banks and financial institutions that want to offer trading inside their own apps. The platform is built on a microservices and event-driven architecture, with a strong emphasis on reliability, clean operations, regulatory readiness, and scale.
About the role
We are looking for an expert Senior DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer to own the cloud infrastructure, delivery pipelines, and reliability of a real-time, regulated trading platform. You will work closely with engineering and compliance teams to keep production highly available, secure, observable, and audit-ready.
What you will do
Provision and manage a secure multi-account AWS environment using infrastructure as code.
Run and scale Kubernetes in production, with secure container and cluster patterns across all workloads.
Manage and scale Kafka clusters, tune performance, and support event-driven, real-time systems.
Support ingestion and storage of time-series market data with proper performance and retention planning.
Build and evolve CI/CD pipelines for microservices across multiple environments (Helm, Argo CD / GitOps).
Build and maintain full observability: metrics, logs, traces, alerts, dashboards, and SLI/SLO tracking.
Lead incident response, take part in on-call, and drive fast, structured, blameless post-incident improvements.
Own disaster recovery plans and run periodic failover exercises.
Apply security and compliance standards: IAM hygiene, least-privilege access, Privileged Access Management (PAM), and secrets management.
Work with the compliance team to meet regulatory expectations (ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI-DSS, and internal controls).
Drive cost optimisation and clear cost governance on AWS.
Lead DevOps practices across engineering: automation, delivery speed, and incident hygiene.
What we are looking for
Proven experience in fintech or another highly regulated environment (required).
Strong, hands-on experience running Apache Kafka in production, including scaling and performance tuning (required).
Expert-level Kubernetes experience in production.
5+ years designing and operating systems on AWS.
Experience supporting real-time, low-latency, high-availability systems.
Hands-on CI/CD pipeline experience, plus infrastructure as code (for example Terraform) and GitOps (Argo CD).
Hands-on understanding of PAM solutions, RBAC, least-privilege access, and secure access workflows.
Experience working to ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI-DSS, or similar standards, and applying security baselines and cloud hardening.
Strong background in Linux, networking, and scripting (Bash and Python).
Observability experience across APM, log aggregation, and metrics platforms.
Experience with PostgreSQL or other relational databases.
Ability to troubleshoot production incidents calmly and systematically.
Nice to have
Experience with time-series databases and market-data pipelines.
Experience with trading, brokerage, or stock-market systems.
Experience with AWS cost tooling (for example CUR) and FinOps practices.
What we offer
Competitive salary and benefits package.
The opportunity to work on a cutting-edge platform with global ambitions.
A collaborative and dynamic work environment.
Professional growth and development opportunities.
