Senior Platform Engineer (Infrastructure)

The role

You will build and own scalable infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines for a fintech platform. You will also implement infrastructure as code and improve system observability and self-service tooling.

What you will do

• Build and own scalable, reliable infrastructure that supports high-performance applications across multiple regions
• Own and continuously improve CI/CD pipelines and release workflows
• Implement infrastructure as code and automation across all environments
• Improve system observability, monitoring, and incident response
• Reduce operational overhead and improve platform stability
• Enable engineering teams through reliable, efficient platform systems and self-service tooling

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, or SRE, with a strong focus on infrastructure and developer experience
• Deep expertise with cloud services (ideally AWS) and infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi
• Proficient with containerization and orchestration — Docker, Kubernetes
• Understand microservices architecture
• Hands-on experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins)
• Hands-on experience with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, DataDog, or similar)
• Comfortable with on-call responsibilities
• Track record of improving incident response practices
• Use the latest AI tools and technologies to boost productivity
• Based in, or open to relocating to, the UAE

Nice to have

• Proven experience building infrastructure for fintech or other high-reliability, high-throughput platforms
• A track record of tackling real scaling problems — reducing latency, improving resilience, or operating multi-region systems
• History of building platform and developer experience tooling that measurably boosted engineering velocity
• Successful leadership in major infrastructure evolution, including architectural transitions, migrations, or multi-region rollouts
• Active engagement in the tech community through open source contributions, conference speaking, or technical writing

About the company

Ziina is a fintech company with a rapidly growing platform.