Senior Platform Engineer

We are hiring **a Senior Platform Engineer** for an international fintech company building a proprietary trading infrastructure from the ground up. **Skills:** * 5\+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or DevOps roles; * Strong hands\-on experience with AWS ECS and other core AWS services; * Deep hands\-on experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform; * Experience building and maintaining GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines; * Strong understanding of GitOps principles and declarative infrastructure management; * Experience building internal developer platforms, self\-service tooling, or developer enablement solutions; * Strong scripting and automation skills; * Experience with observability and monitoring platforms (Datadog is a plus); * Strong understanding of designing scalable and reliable cloud infrastructure; * Startup, fintech, or proprietary trading experience **Responsibilities:** * Design, build, and maintain internal developer platforms and self\-service tooling; * Standardize deployment processes and create reusable development workflows; * Build infrastructure automation using Terraform, Spacelift, and AWS services; * Develop and maintain GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines; * Implement GitOps\-based deployment workflows and infrastructure management processes; * Implement observability and monitoring solutions to improve platform visibility and reliability; * Partner with development teams to understand their needs and build solutions that improve engineering productivity; * Automate infrastructure provisioning and reduce manual operational work; * Contribute to cloud cost optimization (FinOps), deployment improvements, and platform scalability; * Establish platform security and infrastructure best practices while maintaining developer velocity; * Contribute to the technical direction and long\-term evolution of the Platform Engineering function. **Nice to have:** * Experience building an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) or self\-service platform solutions; * Experience with Spacelift or similar infrastructure automation platforms; * Experience with Cloudflare services; * Experience with Kubernetes, Amazon ECS, or other container orchestration platforms; * Experience with service mesh technologies or API gateways; * Familiarity with developer portal solutions such as Backstage, Port, or similar platforms; * Previous experience in fintech, proprietary trading firms, or other high\-performance environments **Tech Stack:** AWS (ECS, EC2, Lambda, RDS, VPC, IAM), Terraform, GitHub Actions, CI/CD, Spacelift, GitOps, Datadog, Kubernetes, Cloudflare. **Location:** Dubai, UAE (full\-time, office\-based) Pay: AED25,000\.00 \- AED33,000\.00 per month Application Question(s): * Do you have startup fintech experience? Work Location: In person