DevOps Engineer

About The Role

Devops & Cloud Architecture

• Design and implement enterprise-grade Azure architectures, taking reliability, security, performance, cost, and operational excellence into consideration.
• Provide hands-on architectural leadership for Azure-based platforms and services.
• Define and enforce DevOps standards, best practices, and guardrails across teams.

Ci And Cd & Automation

• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines with static source code analysis (e.g., security scanning, code quality checks).
• Implement CI/CD pipelines with automated testing, including regression and sanity tests.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines with security checks (Qualys).
• Enable continuous deployment strategies (blue/green, canary, rolling deployments).
• Automate environment provisioning and application deployment across multiple environments.

Infrastructure-As-Code (Iac)

• Develop and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code.
• Ensure IaC follows reusability, security, and compliance best practices.
• Manage Azure environments consistently across development, staging, and production.

Reliability, Performance & High Availability

• Design and configure High Availability (HA) and disaster recovery solutions across Azure services.
• Implement performance optimization strategies (autoscaling, caching) for applications and infrastructure.
• Proactively identify and mitigate bottlenecks in systems and deployment processes.

Monitoring, Alerting & Observability

• Configure Azure Application Insights, logging, metrics, and tracing.
• Conduct performance degradation and failure analysis using Dynatrace.
• Design and implement alerting strategies for proactive incident detection and response. Finetune thresholds.
• Enable observability dashboards and KPIs for platform health and performance.

Security & Compliance

• Implement security best practices across infrastructure and pipelines.
• Configure rate limiting, throttling, authentication.
• Integrate security scanning into CI/CD pipelines (DevSecOps).
• Ensure secure identity management using Azure AD B2C.
• Enforce least-privilege access, secret management, and secure networking patterns.

Cost & Operational Optimization

• Monitor and optimize Azure cloud costs using cost management tools and tagging strategies.
• Design architectures with cost efficiency and scalability in mind.
• Provide recommendations and automation for cost optimization without compromising performance or reliability.

Proof-Of-Concepts & Innovation

• Lead and deliver Proof-of-Concepts (PoCs) for new tools and architectural patterns.
• Evaluate emerging Azure services and DevOps tools.
• Support architectural decisions with data-driven insights.
• The responsibilities and duties outlined above are not exhaustive and may evolve over time.
• The role may require additional tasks and responsibilities as assigned by the line manager or higher authorities, in alignment with organizational needs.

Education

• Educated with at least bachelor’s degree or equivalent in related field
• Education specialization or master’s degree in computer science, engineering, or information technology.
• Proficient in English
• Proficient in Arabic
• Proficiency in Russian, Turkish and Central Asian languages is a plus

Experience

• Minimum 10 years of professional experience in DevOps, cloud, or engineering.
• Minimum 5 years of hands-on, architect-level experience with Microsoft Azure.
• Experience with Azure DevOps
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with IaC (Infrastructure-as-Code)
• Outstanding analytical skills for performance degradation analysis and failure analysis, as well as performance optimization and reliability engineering
• Experience with Azure Functions, Azure Logic Apps, Azure API Management, Azure Application Insights, Azure AD B2C, Azure AKS, Azure Redis Cache, Azure Front Door
• Experience with Azure SQL Database, Azure Cosmos DB

Why Join Us?

• Opportunities for continuous learning, certifications, and professional development.
• Dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and empowered to be their authentic selves.
• Committed to building a stable, forward-thinking organization where innovation thrives.