About the Role
Join a new financial markets venture under formation in Oman, backed by prominent institutional investors. This is an opportunity to join at an early stage and help build the automated, scalable, and resilient technology platforms needed to support critical business operations. As a DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining reliable, secure, and high-performing application infrastructure across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments.
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What You’ll Do
- Design, implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate application builds, testing, and deployments.
- Develop and manage Infrastructure as Code using tools such as Terraform and Ansible to automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration.
- Manage containerised applications using Docker and Kubernetes across OCI, Azure, AWS, and hybrid environments.
- Monitor and optimise platform reliability, scalability, performance, and availability.
- Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability solutions using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK.
- Establish and monitor service level indicators (SLIs), service level objectives (SLOs), and service level agreements (SLAs).
- Troubleshoot production incidents, conduct root cause analysis and implement recovery measures, automated rollbacks, and preventive improvements.
- Support disaster recovery arrangements and improve resilience across critical applications and platforms.
- Integrate security controls, vulnerability scanning, and compliance requirements into DevOps workflows.
- Maintain technical documentation, runbooks, and standard operating procedures.
- Collaborate with development, infrastructure, and cybersecurity teams to improve delivery processes, reduce manual intervention, and prevent recurring incidents.
- Supervise and coordinate assigned DevOps / SRE Team Members, allocating tasks, monitoring performance, and providing technical guidance and coaching.
What You’ll Bring
- A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant professional experience.
- At least three years’ experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, Cloud Engineering, or Systems Administration.
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, and automated deployment processes.
- Practical experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud or hybrid infrastructure environments.
- Experience with one or more major cloud platforms, ideally OCI, Azure, or AWS.
- Knowledge of monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability tools, ideally Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK.
- Understanding of SLI, SLO, and SLA management, incident response, root cause analysis, and disaster recovery.
- Knowledge of DevSecOps principles and integrating security controls into deployment workflows.
- Experience supervising, mentoring, or guiding technical team members.
- Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills, with the ability to support business-critical production environments.
- Good communication, documentation, and collaboration skills.
- Proficiency in written and spoken English.
Desirable Experience
- Professional certifications in cloud platforms, Kubernetes, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering.
- Experience improving deployment frequency, deployment success rates, and system availability.
- Experience supporting mission-critical production systems and implementing reliability improvements.
- Familiarity with scripting and automation languages.
- Proficiency in Arabic.
Location and Terms
- Location: Muscat, Oman.
- Omani nationals: Permanent employment.
- Expatriate hires: Two-year fixed-term contract.
Omani nationals are strongly encouraged to apply. This is an opportunity to help shape the technology and reliability foundations of a new financial markets venture, combining hands-on engineering, automation, and technical leadership as the business develops.
