Senior Operations Engineer

Job Title - Senior Operations Engineer Our client is
building a modern cross-border payments and financial
infrastructure platform (exchange, clearing, messaging, digital
currency) for banks and financial institutions. We are looking for
a Senior IT Operations Engineer to run production upgrades,
supervise and maintain our production environments and
infrastructure, and act as L2 support for sustaining operations.
Profile summary * 5+ years of experience in IT operations /
production operations / SRE roles * Strong experience running and
coordinating production upgrades, deployments, and maintenance
windows * Hands-on experience administering Linux-based
environments (installation, configuration, hardening,
troubleshooting) * Good understanding of networking basics (DNS,
load balancers, firewalls, VPN, TLS certificates) * Experience
managing and monitoring production infrastructure (VMs/instances,
containers, storage, databases, message brokers) * Familiar with
major cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP) and infrastructure tooling *
Experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting tools
(Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK, or similar) * Comfortable writing
simple scripts/automation (Bash, Python, or similar) to streamline
operational tasks * Strong incident response skills: triage,
escalation, communication, and post-incident follow-up * Acts as L2
support for production issues: reproducing problems, collecting
diagnostics, working with developers to drive resolution, and
documenting workarounds * Familiar with change management, release
management, and production governance processes * Bonus: experience
in fintech/payments, high-availability systems, or regulated
environments Engagement * Typically a full-time role focused on
production operations, upgrades, and sustaining support for the
Xabeta platform Languages and location * Fluent English is a must
(written and spoken) * Location: strong preference for UAE, Dubai,
with flexibility for remote candidates who are highly qualified
This role is ideal for someone who enjoys keeping critical systems
healthy, stable, and up to date, and who takes pride in smooth
production operations and fast, well-structured incident
handling.