We're looking for a DevOps Engineer to join a cutting-edge team that is working on some of the most exciting products being launched in the Middle East. This role offers the flexibility of remote work for candidates worldwide.
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Location
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Key Responsibilities
- Focus on improving scalability, robustness, and automation of our tools and processes, as well as expanding capabilities to support new features.
- Take ownership of the deployment and optimization of our production systems.
- Ensure our support tools work and enable continuous integration, testing, and production deployment.
- Shape and implement strategic solutions to ensure our systems stay on the bleeding edge of technology.
- Contribute to the technology stack, covering web development, API development, database communication, performance, and security measures.
- Ensure systems are operational, visible, and designed for auto-recovery in case of disaster.
- Manage end-to-end development and production system operations including system maintenance, monitoring, notification, automation, and backend operation.
- Propose new technologies and tools to improve development, testing, and production operations.
- Work closely with various teams across functions including project, product, tech, and QA teams.
- Continually improve DevOps tools, processes, and procedures.
- Build, maintain, and scale infrastructure for Production, QA, and Dev environments.
- Develop and maintain Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery systems.
- Deploy automation solutions in a public cloud environment such as AWS.
- Participate in the ongoing design, implementation, and maintenance of systems and tools across our cloud stack.
- Collaborate with Development and QA teams to ensure end-to-end quality.
- Write and maintain infrastructure documentation.
- Work with third-party vendors to resolve infrastructure issues.
- Demonstrate a track record of building and maintaining large-scale software products.
- Deliver high uptime Software-as-a-Service applications.
- Proactively manage tasks, projects, and issues.
Requirements
- Experience in handling high traffic production systems, troubleshooting, automation, and regular operations.
- Familiarity with web development technology and exposure to their build/deployment.
- Experience with Continuous Integration/Deployment mechanisms using Jenkins, Nexus, Docker Registry, Gitlab, Ansible/Terraform.
- Good knowledge of SaaS, Cloud Infrastructure, and other enterprise-related technologies (AWS).
- Experience with AWS and Google Cloud.
- Experience with Container orchestration (Kubernetes).
- Strong scripting skills (Shell scripting, Python, etc.).
- Strong knowledge of Unix-based systems.
- Experience with version control (Git).
- Proficiency with deployment and configuration tools (Ansible, Chef, Puppet, etc.).
- Familiarity with micro-service architecture and understanding of distributed systems concepts and principles.
Key Qualifications
- Minimum of a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
- Minimum of 3 to 5 years of experience as a Senior DevOps Engineer.
- Experience in GCP preferred.
- AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional preferred.
- Google Certified Professional Cloud Architect preferred.
