Senior DevOps Engineer

Location:

Alpaca Global Village, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Reporting to the VP of Engineering, you will oversee the configuration, provisioning, and management of large cloud-hosted systems and microservices, including scaling, monitoring, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and recovery.

• Design, maintain and expand our infrastructure defined in code (IaC)
• Oversee systems and resources for alerting, logging, backups, disaster recovery, and monitoring
• Help Alpaca scale by defining the direction of our infrastructure architecture
• Work alongside our engineering in building fault‑tolerant & resilient microservices that are in line with our infrastructure’s best practices
• Improve the performance and durability of our CI/CD pipelines
• Build out automated tooling to automate the provisioning of on-demand Kubernetes name spaces
• You may be asked to be on‑call to assist with engineering projects that are timely in nature

• 5+ years of experience in Dev Ops or a similar role
• Significant experience with Kubernetes at scale
• Deep understanding of modern containerization systems (Docker)
• Familiarity with modern distributed logging, monitoring, and metrics systems
• Deep experience building and scaling continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines
• Deep familiarity with Git for distributed source code version control
• Excellent communication skills and value good documentation and writing
• Strong understanding and comfort with POSIX operating systems (Linux/BSD, etc)

• Experience with Elasticsearch and Kibana
• Experience with Prometheus (including Prometheus Alerts) and Grafana
• Familiarity with distributed tracing
• Experience with multi‑region high availability
• Experience with Golang
• Strong Postgre
  
  SQL scaling and performance tuning experience (including overseeing the management of both self‑managed instances and cloud‑managed instances)
• Familiarity with security engineering best practices or experience with SOC 2
• Fin Tech experience

• Microservices running on Google Cloud Platform via Kubernetes
• Colocated systems in close proximity to financial hubs with cross‑connects to data partners and market execution venues
• Golang
• PostgreSQL
• RabbitMQ

Must be eligible to work without sponsorship for this role.

• Competitive salary & stock options
• Health benefits
• New Hire Home‑Office Setup: one‑time USD $500
• Monthly stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card

Alpaca is proud to be an equal‑opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce.

Seniority level:
Mid‑Senior level

Employment type:

Full‑time
Job function:
Engineering and Information Technology