About Us
UMO
is a stealth-mode Fin Tech 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 Do
As a
Tech Lead Sec Ops
, 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 Sec Ops function, defining security roadmap and best practices
Design and maintain secure AWS environments (IAM, WAF, networking, encryption, monitoring)
Implement and improve security tooling for cloud, CI/CD, and runtime environments
Establish secure SDLC practices and collaborate with Go engineering teams
Develop policies for identity and access management, secrets management, and key rotation
Lead incident response, post-mortems, and security investigations
Implement vulnerability management processes (scanning, prioritization, remediation)
Drive infrastructure and application hardening initiatives
Own threat detection, monitoring, and alerting improvements
Conduct security reviews for architecture, infrastructure, and code changes
Ensure compliance with industry standards relevant to fintech environments
Mentor engineers and promote security-first culture across teams
You're a Perfect Fit If You Have:
5+ years in Security Engineering / Sec Ops / Cloud Security
Strong AWS security expertise (IAM, networking, WAF, KMS, encryption, monitoring)
Experience securing Kubernetes-based environments
Understanding of secure CI/CD pipelines and Dev Sec Ops practices
Hands-on experience with security scanning tools (SAST/DAST, container scanning, dependency scanning)
Solid knowledge of networking and security fundamentals
Experience with incident response and vulnerability management
Leadership experience (team lead, security owner, or cross-team leadership)
Proactive mindset and ownership attitude
Bonus Skills:
Experience in fintech, crypto, banking, or other regulated/high-security domains
Knowledge of security for Go-based applications
Experience with threat modeling and risk assessment
Familiarity with compliance frameworks (PCI DSS, ISO27001, GDPR)
Open-source contributions in security or Dev Ops tooling
Experience with multi-region AWS environments
Start-up Benefits
Compensation:
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.
