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Senior DevOps Engineer

SmartChoice International GCC
Riyadh Region, KSA
Full-time
Mid-Senior
Onsite
Discovered 3 days ago
DevOpsSite reliability engineeringAWSTerraform or OpenTofuAnsible or comparable configuration managementCI/CD

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Role overview

Full-time Senior DevOps Engineer role in Riyadh, building and operating infrastructure behind a rapidly scaling technology platform.

Hands-on scope spans cloud infrastructure, automation, CI/CD, container platforms, security, observability, and production reliability.

Partner with engineering teams to create scalable, secure, resilient environments and operational standards.

Responsibilities

  • Design and maintain scalable, reproducible infrastructure using infrastructure as code.
  • Own CI/CD pipelines for build, testing, security, and production deployment.
  • Manage container workloads across Kubernetes and cloud compute environments.
  • Build safe rollout, rollback, and recovery strategies.
  • Manage cloud networking, API gateways, load balancing, DNS, certificates, and service connectivity.
  • Implement identity, secrets management, and least-privilege access.
  • Operate production databases with high availability, replication, backup, and recovery.
  • Establish infrastructure and application monitoring, alerting, and operational metrics.
  • Lead incident response and improve reliability, security, and operational resilience.
  • Optimize infrastructure utilization and costs, including high-compute workloads.
  • Build reusable platform capabilities that enable engineering teams to operate services independently.

Experience and technical requirements

  • 8+ years in DevOps, SRE, infrastructure, or platform engineering.
  • Strong hands-on AWS experience across compute, networking, IAM, and storage.
  • Strong Terraform or OpenTofu experience, including reusable modules and state management.
  • Experience with Ansible or comparable configuration management.
  • Strong CI/CD experience, particularly GitHub Actions or equivalent.
  • Strong Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm experience; EKS is highly desirable.
  • GitOps experience, including ArgoCD or Flux.
  • Experience with API gateways, authentication, routing, and rate limiting.
  • Production experience with PostgreSQL, RDS/Aurora, and Redis or equivalent technologies.
  • Experience with Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, or Parameter Store.
  • Strong observability experience with Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, and OpenTelemetry or equivalents.
  • Comfort with Linux, Bash, and Python; strong understanding of security, reliability, incident management, and production operations.

Advanced infrastructure

  • Production experience operating AI, machine-learning, or other high-compute workloads is highly desirable.
  • Relevant areas include GPU infrastructure and workload scheduling, model-serving or inference platforms, autoscaling and capacity management, and performance, utilization, and cost management.
  • Relevant technologies include vLLM, Triton, TGI, KServe, Ray Serve, Amazon Bedrock, and SageMaker.

Technical environment

AWS; Terraform/OpenTofu; Ansible; GitHub Actions; Docker; Kubernetes/EKS; Helm; ArgoCD/Flux; API gateways; PostgreSQL; RDS/Aurora; Redis; Vault/Secrets Manager; Prometheus; Grafana; CloudWatch; OpenTelemetry; Linux; Bash; Python.

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