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Head of DevOps

Role overview

Summary

This role is for overseeing the availability and cloud strategy of Ajaib's financial platform. You will be responsible for maintaining infrastructure that meets regulatory standards and scales with user growth, while leading a team of DevOps and SRE engineers.

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of professional experience, with 5+ in formal leadership in financial services or banking, including managing at least one manager.
  • Strong DevOps and SRE practice: CI/CD, automated incident response, reliability engineering.
  • Large-scale GCP or AWS, microservices, load balancing and networking.
  • Hands-on Docker and Kubernetes, plus Kafka, Redis and MySQL.
  • Preferred: Clear communication across development, operations and security.

Responsibilities

  • Own the architecture and upkeep of the cloud platform.
  • Lead production incident response across product and engineering.
  • Set and enforce security policies for financial data.
  • Hire, coach and lead a team of 7 to 10 DevOps and SRE engineers.

Key facts

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Security Policies
  • Communication
  • Leadership

About the company

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About Ajaib

Ajaib is Indonesia's first investment fintech unicorn. More than 3 million customers use its app to invest in stocks, mutual funds, US stocks and crypto. It recently closed a $270M Series C and runs a distributed engineering team across the Middle East, Eastern Europe, India and Southeast Asia.

Why this role exists

You own availability and cloud strategy for a financial platform. The goal: infrastructure that heals itself, stands up to regulators and scales with the user base.

What you'll do

  • Own the architecture and upkeep of the cloud platform, and keep financial services highly available

  • Lead production incident response across product and engineering, and own response time and MTTR

  • Set and enforce security policies for financial data, in line with industry and cyber regulations

  • Hire, coach and lead a team of 7 to 10 DevOps and SRE engineers

What we're looking for

  • 10+ years of professional experience, with 5+ in formal leadership in financial services or banking, including managing at least one manager

  • Strong DevOps and SRE practice: CI/CD, automated incident response, reliability engineering

  • Large-scale GCP or AWS, microservices, load balancing and networking

  • Hands-on Docker and Kubernetes, plus Kafka, Redis and MySQL

  • Clear communication across development, operations and security

Good to know

  • Remote from Egypt, Jordan, Poland or Kazakhstan, with 1 to 3 weeks in Jakarta every quarter, fully sponsored.

  • The team works on Jakarta time (GMT+7), so early starts are part of the job.

  • One-year renewable contract with international medical insurance.

  • Ajaib's products include crypto, forex, margin trading and interest-based lending. You'd work on them directly.

How we hire

A 30 minute intro call with Techy Recruiter, then HR, two technical interviews, a leadership interview and a final in Jakarta (sponsored).

About Techy Recruiter
Techy Recruiter is a boutique hiring partner for startups and scaleups across Europe and the Gulf. We run searches end to end and care about a clear, fair process for every person who applies.

Equal opportunity
We assess people on merit. All applicants are welcome regardless of background, and we do not discriminate on any basis protected by law.

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