Tamara is the leading fintech platform in Saudi Arabia and the wider GCC region, committed to helping people realize their dreams through a customer-centric financial super-app. The company partners with renowned global and regional brands and is recognized as Saudi Arabia’s first fintech unicorn, backed by significant investments from entities such as Sanabil Investments and SNB Capital. Operating from its headquarters in Riyadh, Tamara is expanding its support globally.
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As a DevOps Engineer II on the Platform Engineering team, you will play a key role in building reliable, secure, and scalable infrastructure that enables Tamara’s developers to deliver products with confidence and speed. Your responsibilities will include:
- Implementing and optimizing core platform capabilities, such as Kubernetes clusters and CI/CD pipelines.
- Collaborating with various teams to identify and resolve platform friction points, enhancing engineering productivity.
- Participating in on-call rotations, managing incidents, and leading post-incident reviews for long-term stability.
- Contributing to infrastructure-as-code initiatives using tools like Terraform and GitLab CI/CD.
- Defining platform standards including tagging, access policies, and cost optimization.
- Supporting the rollout of new tools and frameworks through close collaboration with developers and product teams.
- Documenting platform systems and creating usage guides to encourage internal adoption.
Your Expertise:
- 3+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, or SRE roles.
- Proficiency with Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud platforms (GCP, OCI, or AWS).
- Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible).
- Familiarity with CI/CD tools and workflows (e.g., GitLab CI, ArgoCD, Jenkins).
- Strong understanding of Linux systems, networking, and system debugging.
- Experience with observability and monitoring tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, New Relic, ELK).
- Programming or scripting knowledge in at least one language (e.g., Python, Bash, Go).
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills.
- A creative mindset with a passion for new technologies and solutions to enhance system reliability.
Work Conditions: On-site, Full-time
Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Language Requirements: Not specified.
