Tech Lead SecOps

About UsUMO is a stealth-mode FinTech venture aiming to evolve the way people experience money by building a unified, AI-powered, yet deeply human modern money platform across fiat, crypto, and investments—subject to regulatory approvals. The platform is being designed to break down traditional barriers to money across access, assets, and experience, enabling simpler, more adaptive ways for people to interact with financial services.We are currently developing our MVP and navigating licensing requirements, with a multidisciplinary team of 100+ people representing 20+ nationalities. With our headquarters in the UAE and offices in Portugal and Ukraine, we are united behind a shared ambition and a relentless focus on serving our customers.What You'll DoAs a Tech Lead SecOps, you will own and drive the security strategy across our cloud infrastructure, applications, and development processes. You will design and implement security standards for a high-load fintech environment, ensuring our platform stays resilient, compliant, and protected.This is a hands-on leadership role where you will combine deep technical expertise with the ability to guide engineering teams and influence security decisions across the company.Key Responsibilities:Build and lead SecOps function, defining security roadmap and best practicesDesign and maintain secure AWS environments (IAM, WAF, networking, encryption, monitoring)Implement and improve security tooling for cloud, CI/CD, and runtime environmentsEstablish secure SDLC practices and collaborate with Go engineering teamsDevelop policies for identity and access management, secrets management, and key rotationLead incident response, post-mortems, and security investigationsImplement vulnerability management processes (scanning, prioritization, remediation)Drive infrastructure and application hardening initiativesOwn threat detection, monitoring, and alerting improvementsConduct security reviews for architecture, infrastructure, and code changesEnsure compliance with industry standards relevant to fintech environmentsMentor engineers and promote security-first culture across teamsYou're a Perfect Fit If You Have:5+ years in Security Engineering / SecOps / Cloud SecurityStrong AWS security expertise (IAM, networking, WAF, KMS, encryption, monitoring)Experience securing Kubernetes-based environmentsUnderstanding of secure CI/CD pipelines and DevSecOps practicesHands-on experience with security scanning tools (SAST/DAST, container scanning, dependency scanning)Solid knowledge of networking and security fundamentalsExperience with incident response and vulnerability managementLeadership experience (team lead, security owner, or cross-team leadership)Proactive mindset and ownership attitudeBonus Skills:Experience in fintech, crypto, banking, or other regulated/high-security domainsKnowledge of security for Go-based applicationsExperience with threat modeling and risk assessmentFamiliarity with compliance frameworks (PCI DSS, ISO27001, GDPR)Open-source contributions in security or DevOps toolingExperience with multi-region AWS environmentsStart-up BenefitsCompensation: A highly competitive salary package that recognizes your expertise and contribution.Modern Work Culture: Embrace a remote-first environment with flexible working hours, designed to support your work-life harmony.Generous Time Off: Annual Leave- 24 days, dedicated paid sick leave, and Public Holidays.Professional Evolution: Grow your skills with a dedicated learning budget and clear pathways for accelerated career development.Meaningful Impact: Join a world-class team building a prestigious, next-generation modern money platform that is redefining the future of finance.