DevSecOps Engineer (UAE)

This is a remote position.

• Location: Remote UAE
  
• Requirement: A Valid UAE work permit/employment visa is mandatory.
• Employment type: Independent Contractor
  

We are looking for a hands-on DevSecOps Engineer to own secure and scale our infrastructure and deployment pipelines. You will work directly with our engineering team to embed security into our CI/CD workflows manage vulnerabilities and ensure our financial trading systems are resilient compliant and highly available.
Key Responsibilities
Pipeline Security & Automation

• Design maintain and harden CI/CD pipelines across our delivery lifecycle.
  
• Integrate automated security testing tools including SAST DAST dependency scanning and container scanning directly into development workflows.
  
• Proactively suggest automation improvements to reduce manual overhead and accelerate secure software delivery.
  

Vulnerability & Risk Management

• Lead end-to-end vulnerability management including triage remediation tracking and cross-team reporting.
  
• Audit existing infrastructure and deployment workflows to identify gaps risks or inefficiencies.
  
• Contribute to disaster recovery (DR) business continuity (BC) and robust change management processes to guarantee platform resilience.
  

Compliance & Data Protection

• Support the secure handling of sensitive and regulated financial data across all environments.
  
• Work closely with the Compliance team to implement security controls and collect evidence for external audits.
  
• Document all security architecture pipeline logic and automated rules for team handoff and future maintenance.
  
• Promote a security-aware engineering culture through modern tooling clear documentation and proactive knowledge sharing.
  

Requirements

• 5 years of demonstrable experience in a DevOps SRE or DevSecOps role within a production environment for financial services.
  
• Proven experience building maintaining and hardening CI/CD tooling and infrastructure as code.
  
• Deep understanding of relevant security frameworks and standards (e.g. ISO 27001 PCI DSS SOC 2).
  
• Practical exposure to database high availability tooling and managed datastore operations.
  
• Strong understanding of modern data models containerization and cloud security architecture.
  
• Excellent English communication skills you will work closely with global teams and document critical infrastructure logic.
  
• Relevant industry certifications (e.g. AWS Certified Security Certified DevSecOps Professional CISSP or equivalent) are highly preferred.
  
• Background in financial technology SaaS environments or secure cloud-native infrastructure best practices.